Teaching And Learning Portal

Professor Anthony Smith, Vice-Provost (Education), and his team are looking for staff interested in developing Grand Challenges-based courses for the new Global Citizenship Programme.

UCL has drafted a new strategy for e-learning which will be available for consultation until September 30th 2012.

Boris Dosen, a third-year Electronic and Electrical Engineering student at UCL, was recently awarded a year-long internship at Cisco Systems’ headquarters in San Jose, California. In the first of a series of blogs, he explains how the situation came about.

Sondos Ibrahim, a second-year English student and tutor at UCL Horizons’ Summer School, discusses the benefits of debating, and two Year 10 students explain how the skills it brings might help them in the future.

UCL Partners recently secured a contract to be the provider of 12 MDECS postgraduate training courses for healthcare workers in North London. Here, Professor Tim McHugh, Graduate Tutor at UCL’s Faculty of Medical Sciences and academic lead for the SLMS contribution, talks about what this means for UCL.

Professor Peter Delves discusses the main themes and issues covered at this year’s conference.

Friday July 25th saw the culmination of UCL Horizons’ Summer Challenge, a six-week after-school programme for Year 12 students hoping to gain a deeper understanding of a particular subject area and get a taste of university life in the process.

Second-year computer science student Philipp Boeing describes UCL iGEM’s plans to solve plastic pollution by creating marine organisms that bind it all together to form an island.