CEPLW

The Centre for Excellence in Professional Learning from the Workplace.

In 2005 the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded 74 Centers of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) in England for a five year period. The general aims for the CETLs programme, are to enable the development of practices that enhance the quality of learning for students, and to give greater prominence and reward to clusters of excellence, to further their dissemination and impact.

With our focus on professional learning from the workplace our aim is to innovate and facilitate change in educational practice at University of Westminster around ‘learning through work’. We achieve this through:

Nurturing collaborative working
Dissemination of work based pedagogies and approaches to curriculum development to generate ideas and/or development of practices with first generation innovators
Provision to fund innovative large scale projects
Supporting risk taking
Provision of consultancy and mentoring across the University communities
Fostering and drawing upon external relationships
Evaluation