With a policy for recognition of educational tasks, the faculty management team at Health will work to ensure that teaching and programme management gain greater recognition.

2016.12.15 | Ulla Krag Jespersen

Teaching and programme management should gain greater recognition at Health.

It may well be that good teaching earns street credit among the students. But despite the fact that education and research are equally important core activities at the university, teaching does not enjoy the same level of recognition as research activities.

The faculty management team at Health will attempt to rectify this imbalance. They will do so using a policy presentation on the recognition of the educational task, which the faculty management team has asked a working group to formulate. The working group comprises department heads, directors of studies, degree programme directors, course managers and a couple of key administrative employees.

"The working group will present proposals for how we can show recognition of the educational task in different ways. We have some incredibly talented and innovative teaching staff, directors of studies and course managers, who are deeply committed to developing and improving our study programmes. We wish to show appreciation for this work, so it promotes their career instead of hindering it, as the time they invest in this is, of course, taken from their research," says Vice-dean for Education, Charlotte Ringsted, who has taken the initiative to the proposal.

The working group has until summer 2017 to present its proposal for a policy on the recognition of the educational task. It must be presented for discussion by the faculty management team in June, and is affiliated with Health's strategy within the educational area, which aims to secure greater recognition of educational tasks.

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Further information

Vice-dean Charlotte Ringsted
charlotte.ringsted@au.dk
Mobile: (+45) 9350 8222