Recommendation(s): 8

Recommendation 8: We recommend that, with immediate effect, all institutions of higher education give high priority to developing and implementing learning and teaching strategies which focus on the promotion of students’ learning.

3.1 The grant letters to the Higher Education Funding Councils for England and Wales for 1998-99 asked them to encourage institutions to give high priority to developing and implementing learning and teaching strategies which focus on the promotion of students’ learning. The Scottish Office will be asking the Higher Education Funding Council for Scotland to give similar encouragement. The Department for Northern Ireland will, through its funding letter to universities, promote a similar approach. The Government will monitor progress made in this area to assure the quality of teaching, the maintenance and raising of standards, and the way that institutions respond to national policy. The Government will therefore take forward within five years, with the appropriate agencies and institutions, a review of progress made and further steps required.

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