I went away on holiday in October, and when I came back my team no longer existed! CELT, the Centre for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at the University of Sunderland, is no more. Our individual teams, my Learning Design Team, along with the TEL Team and the Academic Development Team, have been merged into the Centre for Graduate Prospects where, for the time being at least, we continue to operate pretty much as we were.
The University has also gone under wider changes, moving from five Faculties to three. I think anyone reading this, with some knowledge of the context of UK Higher Education will be able to infer the reasons for this!
The Centre for Graduate Prospects has been around for a couple of years now, bringing together various teams and resources to provide a more wholistic experience for students to help them successfully transition from study to employment. We’ve already been doing good work together, co-creating resources for the Canvas module template and providing dedicated sessions on the PG Cert, so the restructure will provide more opportunities and possibilities. The goal is to make the new Centre a model of good practice and innovation, a trailblazer for other institutions, much as the first CELTs did a decade ago.