UCL Arena Centre goes international

UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education is influencing policy and practice around the world. In the last year, Academic Director Dilly Fung has delivered 19 key note speeches internationally, while the Arena Centre has welcomed colleagues from Bangladesh, Japan, New Zealand and the Netherlands.   In addition, more than 300 delegates from 18 countries came to UCL in June to attend the Connecting Higher Education conference, organised by the Arena Centre in collaboration with McMaster and Adelaide universities.

Dr Brent Carnell visits University of Minho

In July, Dr Brent Carnell Senior Teaching Fellow in UCL Arena Centre presented ‘Towards Excellent Education: A Shared Endeavour’ at University of Minho at the inaugural event for the Center for Innovation and Development of Teaching and Learning – "IDEA-UMinho Center."

Professor Manuel João Costa spoke of Dr Carnell’s visit in which he outlined the principles and work of UCL Arena Centre, which is regarded as a  ‘valuable model’ and ‘offers important insights and strategy’ for the University of Minho and their commitment to teaching and learning. 

Professor Dilly Fung appointed Vice-Chair of the Agence Nationale

Professor Dilly Fung has been appointed the Vice-Chair of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche Panel set up by the French government to distribute funds for new postgraduate research centres across France. The Panel, chaired by Sir Malcolm Grant, comprises senior academics representing different disciplines from around the world - including Professor David Bogle, head of UCL's Doctoral School. 

Professor Fung was asked to act as Vice-Chair having led on a recent publication on behalf of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), Excellent Education in Research-rich Universities. The paper recommends building creative synergies between research and student education at all levels of the curriculum, and the French government was keen to establish new centres of postgraduate excellence (bringing together research, doctoral programmes and masters programmes) which would both excel in research and offer postgraduate education of the highest quality.

At the first two day meeting of the Panel members looked at almost two hundred submissions from across France in order to allocate external reviewers. The Panel will reconvene for a week in October to deliberate on the submissions in detail, taking account of referees' feedback, to make final recommendations to the French government.

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