Teaching Subject Teaching in Higher Education - A Case for Statistics

Both the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE) and the Learning and Teaching Support Networks (LTSNs) are committed to discipline-based educational training for academic staff. However many Higher Education (HE) staff development and induction programmes only cover generic aspects of teaching. A few do include a guest presentation or two from subject experts but in general we have found relatively little input concerned with the particular issues and problems that face teachers of specific subjects and topics in HE. Yet there are many compelling reasons for much greater input of subject-based material in all programmes for teachers of HE subjects.