Teaching centre plan

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33128, 19 January 1973, Page 3

Teaching centre plan

f.V Z Press Association/ WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. A teaching and research centre aimed at improving the quality of teaching at the tertiary level will be set up later this year at Victoria University. Mr J. C. Clift, a science graduate of Canterbury Umversitv and director of the higher education unit at Mona'h University. Melbourne, is expected to arrive about the middle of the year to be the director of the centre.

A university spokesman: said the centre was established with financial assistance from the McKenzie Education Foundation. “In recent years a considerable number of similar centres have been set up in Australian, British, Canadian and American universities.: We are establishing an appropriate structure to serve our own and New Zealand's 1 needs,” he said. "We see the centre becomj ing a source of help and ad-: vice to departments and staff members who may wish to consult it on aspects of: course planning, organisation, i of teaching programmes, lec-l

ture preparation and presentation. the conduct of seminars and other teaching and: learning situations, the work-, ing out of examination objectives and techniques, and in general the range of teaching methods, including the use of teaching aids. “It is expected the centre! will, through its accumulation of information and its! library and data sendee, act as an information centre and clearing house, enabling uni-i versity staff to keep in touch | with developments in uni-i versity teaching, practice, and academic course develop-: ments in the other New Zea-i land universities and in uni-i versifies overseas,” he said. |