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Celebrating Excellence in Teaching: Salford Shines at Advance HE Awards

The University of Salford proudly celebrated its continued success in higher education at the Advance HE National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) and Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) Awards Ceremony 2025, held at the Harbor Hotel on 25 September. The evening was filled with joy and recognition, as guests gathered to honour outstanding contributions to […]

Celebrating Our Six LTEC Learning and Teaching Scholarship Projects for 2025/26

There was much excitement on Day 2 of the ‘LTEC Festival of Learning and Teaching 2025’ for the announcement of the 2025/26 LTEC Scholars and projects! Following the University-wide call for submissions and a shortlisting process including colleagues from all Schools and Professional Services, we are delighted to announce the six funded projects are: The […]

Why Extensive Reading Matters in Higher Education

As the number of international learners continues to grow in UK universities, the University of Salford Business School and LTEC join forces to offer an extensive reading programme overcoming barriers to learning, facilitating fluency, skills development, and wellbeing. Extensive Reading (ER) means reading in English for pleasure. It is a well-established technique used by teachers […]

University of Salford Host SEDA’s Curriculum Development Network Symposium

We are delighted to invite you to SEDA’s Curriculum Development Network Symposium on Tuesday, 1st July 10am-3pm, taking place in person at the University of Salford, Peel Park Campus. The theme for this symposium is Designing for Impact: Making Curriculum Development Matter This symposium provides an opportunity for colleagues to come together and share expertise, […]

Salford Business School workshop at the forthcoming AdvanceHE Teaching and Learning Conference

Gabi Round and Dr Jonathan D Owens from Salford Business School have formed a research partnership with the University of Hertfordshire, University of Liverpool, and Manchester Metropolitan University and are developing a collaborative research workshop at the forthcoming AdvanceHE Teaching and Learning Conference, held at the University of Sheffield. Along with Young Enterprise (UK), this […]

Pedagogy: LTEC Learning and Teaching Showcase – ‘Active Blended Learning: Using a Media Suite to create authentic learning experiences’

We are delighted to share further highlights from our post-festival publication. This month we recommend this poster submitted by Mirage Islam (Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing). Titled “Active Blended Learning: Using a Media Suite to create authentic learning experiences’, Mirage presents an initiative to design and deliver an industry standard Media Suite staff and student […]

Pedagogy: LTEC Learning and Teaching Showcase – ‘Bridging the Digital Skills Gap with a Focused Student Initiative’

We are delighted to share highlights from our post-festival publication. This month we highly recommend reading “Bridging the Digital Skills Gap with a Focused Student Initiative” written by Craig Smith (Lecturer in Law), published in Pedagogy: LTEC Learning and Teaching Showcase, which explores the innovative Digital Skills Week at Salford Business School. This initiative was […]

A creative approach to principled learning and teaching enhancement

In a new post published on the AdvanceHE blog, Jess Power, APVC Learning and Teaching Enhancement, Calum Thomson Higher Technical-skills lead and Davina Whitnall, EDI lead, share the University of Salford’s Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre’s creative approach to developing principled learning and teaching enhancement. The post discusses how in January 2022, the University of […]

Our Post-Festival Publication is Live!

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre (LTEC) is thrilled to announce the launch of the inaugural edition of the Pedagogy Journal. Volume 1, Issue 1, 2025, titled “Future Horizons in Learning & Teaching Practice”, is now available online. This special post-festival publication brings together innovative research and insights from educators and scholars at the University […]