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HEFCE works in partnership with universities. One of it's key strategic aims is to enhance learning and teaching. 
 
What HEFCE does - at a glance

• distributes money to universities and colleges for higher education teaching, research and related activities
• funds programmes to support the development of higher education
• monitors the financial and managerial health of universities and colleges
• ensures the quality of teaching is assessed
• provides money to further education colleges for their higher education programmes
• provides guidance on good practice.

For further information on HEFCE visit http://www.hefce.ac.uk/
 

The Academy's work is focused in three main areas - Academic Practice Development; Teacher Excellence; and Institutional Strategy and Change.

 

The HEA work on academic practice development includes providing support to academics in subject and discipline areas. This will be led by senior academic staff with responsibility for work across four subject groupings - STEM, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. The Academy provides resources, workshops and support to staff in their discipline areas, including materials and programmes at discipline level for people who are new to teaching, and to support innovation. Grant funding includes the creation of a newteaching development grants programme to fund innovations in university teaching.

Teacher excellence looks at what helps people become great teachers in higher education and looking at how that expertise can be better recognised by higher education institutions. Work in this area include the accreditation of institution's professional development programmes, individual recognition for staff who meet the criteria of the UK Professional Standards Framework and a number of different teaching awards including the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme.

The third focus area is institutional strategy and change. This includes working with institutions to draw on their students' experiences to enhance quality, by using results from the national student survey and the HEA's postgraduate surveys. We also offer a series of change programmes which bring together cross-institutional teams to look at strategic change. These programmes include Change Academy, Enhancement Academy and EQUIP.

 

More information about the full range of services and activities under each of the three focus areas is available in the paper Academy Services 2011 and beyond, (PDF, 308 KB).

 

The Higher Education Academy Discipline Support

The Academy continue to develop and deliver the subject-specific services that are most valued by the sector, including: workshops and seminars, teaching development grants, journals, support and guidance for staff new to teaching, resources and networking opportunities.

More details on HEA Discipline Support 

 

For further information on the HEA visit http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/

CETL's are an HEFCE initiative that had two main aims:

• to reward excellent teaching practice, and
• to further invest in that practice so that CETLs funding delivers substantial benefits to students, teachers and institutions.

The CETL projects have now all come to an end, but details of the CETL's can be found here: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/Learning/TInits/cetl/