The Centre for Higher Education Research and Development

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The Centre for Higher Education Research and Development

For universities and colleges recruitment, development, and retention of our human resources are crucial to the growth and sustainability of our institutions. While we recognize that human capital is our most important resource we often overlook the importance of ongoing professional development for our administrators, faculty and staff, particularly as institutions are faced with change and complex challenges. Over the last decade higher education has seen reduced funding, new budget models, new technologies, the introduction of performance targets and metrics, and new student demographics. Professional development is mission critical for higher education institutions – and investment in professional development can differentiate and distinguish an institution as a learning organization for the future. Teacher training for early years or nursery education

The Centre for Higher Education Research and Development (CHERD) has been providing professional development for university and college administrators and managers for over 30 years. Like institutions, we are changing too, with new current curriculum, technologies and delivery modes. This fall we have two fully online credentials targeted to the evolving higher education professional in Canada: one focusing on University and College Administration and one dedicated to Academic Advising.
The group covers research in initial teacher education, continuing professional development and teachers’ careers.The aims of the Teacher Education and Development SIG are:

to bring together all those with a special interest in the full continuum of teacher education – initial teacher education, induction, early professional development continuing professional development, accomplished teaching/advanced certification and leadership preparation/development across school and higher education settings;
to promote UK-wide, comparative and international perspectives on contemporary developments in policy and practice for teacher education and teaching across the life course;
to promote research on and for teacher education, including consideration of the work and identities of teachers and teacher educators;
to explore and theorise the links between knowledge creation and identity across the continuum of student, teacher and teacher educator learning.