Newcastle University

The Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) programme represented HEFCE’s largest single funding initiative in learning and teaching to date, with a total of £315 million made available from 2005-06 to 2009-10. This initiative was part of a broader move to enhance the status of learning and teaching in higher education, recognising that esteem and reward systems within HEIs were often more likely to recognise excellence in research than teaching. In December 2010, HEFCE and the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) in Northern Ireland commissioned SQW to undertake a summative evaluation of the CETLs.  

 

The evaluation is now complete and a copy of the full report can  be downloaded from the HEFCE website: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rdreports/2011/rd11_11/