Good Practice Blog

Being the M.C. for the teachingcommons@sheffield event meant that I wasn’t able to participate in many of the interesting and provocative discussions that were taking place around the Dam House. In the language of metaphor, simile and idiom, I found myself at times wandering lonely as a cloud, something of an outsider, or even at [...]

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 we have another post coming up shortly that connects Japan and the University of Sheffield. This time we have an Engineer posting. One of the most interesting aspects of my job (looking at good practice across the University) has been discovering the ways engineers think and do things. I was at their ARLT meeting [...]

And now onto more engineering modesty (this was the connection). What we have here is possibly our first post of what I think is truly literary quality. I find that it flows beautifully. This is a man who understands language. When I told this to Adrian (the engineer who wrote it) he suggested I was [...]

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 [...]