De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) has been named in the top 50 universities in the UK for teaching quality by an established league table.
The Times and The Sunday Times league table named DMU 41 out of 127 for teaching quality, an impressive jump of 12 places on last year’s position.
Excellent teaching is at the heart of the university's commitment to professional, creative and vocational education.
Individual excellence is recognised through the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, held annually to recognise exceptional teaching, and the number of National Teaching Fellows, a national scheme to recognise and reward excellence, who teach at DMU.
Professor Michael Young, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, said: “This is great evidence of our progress and all the excellent work across DMU. Our dedicated teaching staff offer a fabulous learning experience for students, while continuing to enhance the quality of our provision.
“We are particularly proud of our support for teaching excellence through the Teacher Fellow scheme, Teaching Innovation Project funding, our high number of National Teaching Fellows and the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Awards.
“There are many initiatives underway to further improve teaching quality in coming years, with a particular focus on e-learning. Our shared commitment to helping all our students achieve success remains firm.”
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The respected The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide league tables rate UK universities by student satisfaction, research quality, spend on facilities, graduate prospects and other criteria to create a complete guide to UK universities.
Providing some of the best teaching in the country also helped DMU rise to a highest-ever position in the influential Complete University Guide recently, based on student satisfaction, research quality, spending on student facilities and academic services.
Posted on Thursday 1 October 2015