Promoting Teaching: International inter-university benchmarking of academic promotion

The project builds on two 2009 collaborative reports by the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the University of Leicester, on reward and recognition for teaching, and internationally recognised work at the University of Wollongong on promotion criteria and peer review of teaching related activities. Both projects pointed to the need to bridge the gap between policy and practice in academic promotion in order to better recognise teaching as core to academic work, and in particular the need to assist institutions by providing a set of perspectives and principles to articulate what constitutes evidence of excellent teaching.