The Teaching Excellence Network (TEN) is a vibrant community of leaders in learning and teaching practice, including principal and senior fellows of Recognising Excellence in Teaching (the CPD programme) or Advance HE and UofG Teaching Excellence Award winners. This academic session, we are excited to open the network to teaching practitioners who aspire to become such leaders. 

To set the stage, we invite you to join us for an on-campus symposium: 

Date: 16 December 
Time: drop-in: 2:00–5:00 PM 
Venue: James McCune Smith Building, Room 430 

This event will showcase curriculum and assessment innovations across the University and foster dialogue on leading change in teaching practice. Refreshments will be provided. 

You can view the programme for the day below. 

  • 2:00pm–2:15pm: Introduction 
  • 2:15pm–3:15pm: Panel 1 
  • 3:15pm–3.30pm: Break 
  • 3:30pm–4:50pm: Panel 2 
  • 4:50pm–5:00pm: Closing remarks 

Panel 1: Curriculum Design for Global Challenges 

Dimitar Karadzhov, Laura Sharp, Zofia Zukowska and Julie Langan Martin, ‘From Theory to Transformation: Steering the Entrepreneurial Turn in Global Mental Health Education’ 

Anna McGregor, Hannah Mathers and Tessa Poller, ‘Enhancing critical thinking and innovative enquiry skills through peer-to-peer learning in an interdisciplinary undergraduate field course’  

Panel 2: Leading Assessment Change 

Jennifer MacDougall and Neil McMillan, ‘Assessing students, not machines: the challenges of meaningful assessment of English for Academic Purposes at Glasgow College, UESTC’ 

Karen Thompson, Sarah Richardson and Robert Cowan, ‘Twelve Days of Christmas Assessment Change’ 

Paul Reilly, ‘Is a dissertation the best way to assess international students? Developing the MCS independent research project’ 

First published: 10 December 2025

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