In the rapidly changing global higher education sector, greater attention is being paid to the
quality of university teaching. However, academics have traditionally not received formal
teacher training. The peer-assisted teaching programme reported on in this paper provides
a structured yet flexible approach for peers to assist each other in reinvigorating and refining
their teaching practice. Academics participated in this national, multi-institutional trial for
varied reasons: the majority voluntarily, others to increase low student evaluation of course …

… Course evaluation in context In this section we contextualise efforts to improve students’
learning experiences, as measured through institutional course evaluation surveys. We
provide a discussion of the …