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Academic year begins with celebration: NAIRTL Awards ceremony
Dublin Castle played host to the NAIRTL Awards ceremony for Excellence in Teaching on Monday, September 17. Fifteen Higher Education staff representing six different HEIs received awards at this prestigious event in recognition of their outstanding contribution to teaching and research in Higher Education. Congratulations to the 2012 Awards recipients and further details about the NAIRTL Awards initiative are available here. 

 

Supporting Research Supervisors: launch of new interactive guide
The culmination of a four-year inter-institutional project to develop strategies for optimising support for research supervisors, this publication summarises the experiences of the six participating Higher Education institutions. The project involved the collaborative development, piloting and implemention of a framework curriculum for supporting research supervisors. This practical guide provides commentaries and guidance on approaches to such training as well as links to useful resources and tools. Access the free interactive publication here.

NAIRTL Threshold Concepts conference - videos now online
The National Academy's recent conference attracted close to 300 delegates representing 16 countries across four continents; a truly international event! Full videos of the four keynote presentations as well as the conference programme and book of abstracts are now available at www.nairtl.ie/conference2012.