Learning & Teaching Support (LTS)
Learning and Teaching Support is the central structure for supporting all learning and teaching related activities at the University of Leeds. LTS comprises SDDU’s Learning and Teaching team; the Library’s Skills@Library, Portal and VLE Service teams; and the Academic Quality and Standards team. The Learning and Teaching Support Office (LTSO) co-ordinates activity across LTS and has specific responsibility for Leeds for Life and a range of strategic projects..
LATEST NEWS FROM THE LTS 
Student Education Bulletin 3: on your desk now! - Fri, 04 Nov 2011
Includes:
- Assessment: The MARK Project recommendations
- Employability: how ESSL and MaPS are enhancing the employment prospects of their students.
- Student engagement: Social Responsibility in Action: Leeds University Business School
- The Partnership: articles from Viv Jones and Ben Jackson
- Student Education Conference Friday 6 January 2012: how to book your place
- LeedsforLife: update on new functionality
Comments? Contact the Editor, Stephanie Stones
Student Education Conference - keynote speakers announced - Wed, 03 Aug 2011
The First Annual Student Education Conference takes place on Friday 6 January 2012 and our theme for the day will be Excellence.
We are delighted to have secured Jim Parry and Claire Cashmore as our keynote speakers. To find out more about them and the issues they will be covering, visit the Conference website. A full programme, including parallel sessions and exhibits, will also be announced shortly on the site. To find out more, simply click 'Student Education Conference' in the left-hand navigation bar, or go to:
www.lts.leeds.ac.uk/Student_Education_Conference/SEC_index.php
Leeds for Life: new funding opportunity for Schools and Services - Thu, 31 Mar 2011
Developing New Opportunities for Student Skills Development
- High quality proposals are invited now to undertake projects to develop and embed new opportunities for students to develop the skills promoted through Leeds for Life.
- Up to 7 projects to develop new opportunities will be funded, each at a maximum cost which would normally not exceed £5K.
Background
Leeds for Life stresses the value to students of taking opportunities to develop skills as part of their overall experience of being at the University. These opportunities are provided both by academic departments and by a wide range of co-curricular providers based in staff and student run organisations and services on campus.
In order to broaden the range of opportunities available to students a small amount of pump-priming funding is now available. The funding is provided by the Alumni Annual Fund, supported by donations from former students and friends of the University of Leeds, and the University’s Academic Development Fund. Project proposals are welcome from schools and services, all categories of staff, staff/student groups and student-led organisations.
Guidelines
Closing date for applications is Wednesday 1st June 2011
Download guidelines and a bid proforma
HEFCE Consultation on public information about higher education - Tue, 25 Jan 2011
All staff are invited to contribute to the University’s response to the consultation by HEFCE on proposals to provide a set of publicly available information to enable prospective students to choose the university that is best for them, by:
- giving prospective students useful information about higher education courses and the student experience (in the form of a Key Information Set – ‘KIS’);
- improving accessibility to the information that higher education institutions publish about their courses and which is used for quality assurance; and
- developing the National Student Survey.
The outcome of the consultation will be published in Summer 2011, with a planned deadline of the start of the 2012/2013 academic year for each university to publish its Key Information Set (KIS) in order to inform the decisions of entrants for 2013. The full consultation document is available via the link, below. To contribute to the University’s response, please address the specific questions in the consultation document (as set out in Annex A to that document). Please send your reply to David Gardner (d.gardner@leeds.ac.uk) by Wednesday 16th February. David can also provide the consultation questions to you by email.
Leeds for Life Foundation: new student-led projects - Mon, 13 Dec 2010
The LfL Foundation has awarded funding to 15 projects to be undertaken by individual students and groups of students to develop their skills. Project will take place both in the UK and in 7 countries across the rest of the world, including Peru, Kenya and Cambodia. The deadline for the next round of funding is the 19th February 2011 and details can be found on the Foundation pages of the Leeds for Life website.
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