Following the considerable interest in the Network and Discipline Funding Call that was issued in late 2020, further funding has now been announced by the National Forum, open to national networks and discipline groups across the sector. Networks and discipline groups are recognised as important mechanisms for collaboration and enhancement due to their direct links with those…
2021 is a very important year for teaching and learning in Ireland and the Board of the National Forum recently discussed key priorities for the higher education community. Throughout the year, we will be focused on honouring remaining commitments to the sector arising from our 2019-21 Strategy, responding to emerging needs, particularly those that have…
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) and the National Forum are partnering on an exciting research project that looks at the practice of embedding wellbeing in the curriculum in higher education in Ireland. The project will capture how wellbeing is currently being embedded in the curricula of higher education institutions nationally and internationally and…
This January, the National Forum will roll-out its second national iteration of an online open course entitled ‘Getting Started with Online Teaching’, following its open call for registration. This free fully online course will be delivered to 40 participants across further and higher education for six weeks from 27 January in partnership with Dublin City University, Maynooth University, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology…
A total of 17 networks and discipline groups across the sector have been approved for funding under the National Forum’s 2020 Network and Discipline Fund, which was announced last November. This iteration of the Fund has a focus on Shared Solutions to Common Challenges. It aims to support networks and discipline groups to work together…
