Factors influencing the quality of undergraduate clinical restorative dentistry in the UK and ROI: the views of heads of units

The Casual Approach to Teacher Education: What Effect Does Casualisation Have for Australian University Teaching?

“…DEEWR (2009) notes we are rapidly approaching a time when a significant number of academics will retire yet universities are failing to attract new academics to the profession; rather, universities continue to hire a growing number of sessional staff. This situation highlights the arguments made by Kimber (2003), Bradley et al (2008), and Martin et al (2010) that budgetary cuts have resulted in a reduced level of investment in higher education. Percy and Beaumont (2008) warn that the growth in numbers of sessional staff may jeopardise student success because of their lack of teaching excellence.…”

“…The nature of the crisis is implied by May (2012) who voiced her concern in the newsletter for the National Tertiary Education Union, commenting that the over-employment of sessional staff has resulted in inadequate succession planning for a new generation of quality full time academics. Finkelstein and Schuster (2006) describe a rapid revolutionary change that is producing a new order, in line with the change in academic staffing and types of work carried out by staff referred to by Martin, Fairclough, Smith and Ellis (2010). This new order is in part the result of "market-driven and technology-enabled innovations" (p.6), contributed to by the 'creep of casualised labour' and 'crisis in education'.…”

Promoting recognition: a personal perspective

“…For an individual, aside from a very real feeling of personal achievement and engagement with reflective practices, successful attainment often entitles the use of post‐nominal letters, demonstrating an overt commitment to education development and values. Portable assets of teaching recognition have prominence in job descriptions and promotion criteria, addressing some of the challenges in the perceived inequality in rewarding teaching or research in universities …”

“…Portable assets of teaching recognition have prominence in job descriptions and promotion criteria, addressing some of the challenges in the perceived inequality in rewarding teaching or research in universities. [2][3][4]…”

Use of simulators in operative dental education: experience in southern Nigeria

“…Martin et al (2010) 23 reported that peer assessment of psychomotor skills could be an important part of the learning process and a tool to supplement instructor assessment. In their study on peers' ability to assess psychomotor skills, even though students could not detect all errors, they assessed their peers with an average of 96% accuracy.…”