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EDU

Welcome to the Educational
Development Unit

Imperial is an incredibly vibrant research environment, which
attracts researchers and students from all over the world.
Our teaching aims to be research-informed, student focused
and to provide a basis for advanced learning. The Educational
Development Unit exists to support this mission and provide
practice-based training and support and educationally-led
programmes of study, as well as providing consultancy to all levels
of the College and co-ordinating the Imperial College Supporting
Teaching Accreditation and Recognition (STAR) Framework.

Our current ULT programme came into being in 2011. feedback and support we provide. We believe an
Since then over 130 Imperial staff have taken the increased understanding of teaching and learning is
PG Cert ULT, with many of them continuing to study beneficial to the experience of both staff and their
at Diploma or MEd level. Our aim is that all our students and work to model good practice throughout
graduates will be well equipped to make an enhanced the programme. Each student has a personal tutor,
contribution to teaching, learning and educational and there are opportunities for you to give feedback
leadership throughout their careers at Imperial and to us throughout the course, and via a staff-student
beyond. Many of our graduates take on course or liaison committee, but you should feel free to
module leader roles, or act as Year leads or DUGs, or approach any member of staff at any time with any
have other roles that contribute broadly to student issues or concerns. We look forward to working with
learning. In addition, graduates of our programme you in the year ahead, and hope you will find your
often feature prominently in the lists of Departmental course both interesting and useful.
and Faculty teaching awards, the ICU SACAs, and
at the College level, the President’s Awards for
Excellence. Imperial’s recent recipient of the National
Teaching Fellowship, Dr Jane Saffell, received her MEd
ULT with merit in 2014.

The ULT programme was reviewed both internally
and externally in 2014 and was rated as excellent.
Student evaluations and the external examiners’
reports particularly comment on the high level of

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