Education Development
There are opportunities to develop your education practice throughout the academic year, whether this be gathering and responding to student feedback, peer observation and dialogue, or more general learning and teaching development workshops and resources.
In addition to the links below, you may also find it useful to speak to your Academic Lead or Discipline/College Education leadership team about the development opportunities available at a local level.
Education and Student Experience provides all the key administration and education support activities at the University.
Learning Experiences & Innovation (LXI) is the ‘go-to’ service across the University learning community in uplifting our students, academics, staff and partners to co-create a distinctive and outstanding quality learning experience where every learner thrives. focuses on strategic development with the academic and professional services communities, with particular attention to achieving the goals of the Education Strategy.
LXI includes Educator Development, Student Voice and Change, Education Policy, Quality and Standards (EPQS), Programme Design and Quality Enhancement (PDQE), Learning Design, Learning Development and Experimentation and Innovation.
For our full range of courses, please check out our A-Z course catalogue.
This EduExe Community, set up by the Educator Development Team, is for all educators at Exeter who would like to network, share good practice, engage in pedagogy CPD, and generally get together as a community of education practice. To get us going, we've added all ASPIRE Fellows awarded since 2020 and our ASPIRE PRP Assessors and Mentors, but colleagues from any part of the institution are very welcome to join us, and can add themselves to the group! Just share this link with anyone who'd like to join.
For educators who are an Academic Personal Tutor or Doctoral Supervisor, there are additional training and resources available.
For our full range of courses, please check out our A-Z course catalogue.
For our full range of courses, please check out our A-Z course catalogue.
EduExe Framework:
From September 2024, we are relaunching the ASPIRE Framework as the EduExe Framework.
If you are teaching, supervising and/or supporting learning at the University of Exeter, the EduExe Framework offers you the opportunity to gain reward and recognition.
EduExe rewards applicants with both a University of Exeter EduExe Fellowship and the correlating fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA, now Advance HE) against one of four fellowship descriptors: Associate Fellowship, Fellowship, Senior Fellowship or Principal Fellowship.
Routes to Fellowship
You can gain EduExe and HEA fellowship through one of two routes:
- Either by submitting a direct application for Fellowship through the ASPIRE Professional Recognition Pathway (you can submit for any of the four descriptors through the PRP).
- Or by completing one of the two Initial Professional Development taught programmes:
- The Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE) Programme - mandatory for Postgraduate Teaching Assistants. All colleagues at the University of Exeter who have a role teaching and/or supporting learning are welcome to attend. Successful completion of the assessment leads to Associate Fellowship (AFHEA).
- The Academic Professional Programme - for academics and other staff who have a substantive teaching-related role at the University. Academic Professional Programme is a probation requirement for most early career academics in the Education & Research and Education & Scholarship job families. Successful completion of the assessment leads to Fellowship (FHEA). For more information, see Academic Professional Programme FAQs.
In the first instance please talk to your Academic Lead or Line Manager about which of the above is the best fit for you. There is also further information at https://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/lxi/educatordevelopment/eduexeframework/
Advance HE awards:
For further information, please contact eduexe@exeter.ac.uk.
School of Education:
The School of Education offers a range and quality of graduate study options which are designed to meet the varying needs of both graduates and busy professionals.