Good Practice Blog

Another Thursday, another post and perspective on excellence. We are collecting quite a series of different views of what excellence is and looks like…just as it should be because excellence is diverse and comes in many forms.
In my short time here I’ve seen that for some people excellence is professional and efficient use of time [...]

Today’s theme is learning (and University of Sheffield-Japan connections for this week only, why? because I wanted to…ah, the power), so I asked SEAS student Joseph Tame to write about his very successful year abroad in Japan. Joseph has been one of the first students to contribute to the Case Studies Project on what he [...]

If you have read this blog more than a couple times, you may have noticed that each of the days has a theme. Some of the main reasons I set themes were practical: to help me book people and guide them to general topics (if you feel drawn to a different area or subject on [...]

Today is Tuesday and the theme of the day is learning. Simone Abram, formerly of the Department of Town and Regional Planning (now at Leeds), wrote a post just before she left about student literacy skills and one solution she came up with to deal with this issue. Aidan While in Town and Regional Planning [...]

The theme on Thursdays is excellence. On this blog, I had hoped that some of you would engage with some of the more theoretical issues that underpin good/best/excellent practice and even question their definitions and so on (but what you choose to write is up to you of course). These discussions would seem to be [...]