Global initiatives

National and international initiatives aimed at informing and fostering positive change in higher education. The outputs from these initiatives are typically published in the public domain. Examples of recent global studies are provided below.

Educational change in universities worldwide

Initiatives focused on benchmarking and evaluating educational change. Other projects include: (i) the factors driving engineering education reform in Chile (here); and (ii) the strategies associated with effective educational change (here).

Sponsored by a university consortium

The impact of COVID-19 'emergency teaching' on global practices in engineering education

Sponsored by MIT

The global state of the art in engineering education

Sponsored by MIT/Skoltech

Review of effective strategies to build university-based entrepreneurial ecosystems

Reward and recognition of university teaching

A suite of projects and resources linked to the Advancing Teaching initiative which seeks to improve the reward and recognition of university teaching worldwide and is led by Dr Graham. Three of the components are outlined below.

Global univeristy partnership

Mapping the global movement for change to the reward of university teaching and showcasing best practice solutions from across the world

Global university partnership

Survey to capture the teaching culture amongst the academic communities in universities worldwide, held in 2019, 2022 and 2025

RAEng

A framework for the evaluation of teaching achievement during academic appointment, promotion and professional development

Global Studies

National and international research/review studies aimed at informing and inspiring positive change in higher education. The outputs from these studies are typically published in the public domain. Examples of recent global studies are provided in the links below.

Educational change in universities worldwide
Reward and recognition of university teaching
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