Background

The Higher Education Academy

The Higher Education Academy is a UK-wide organisation set up to support quality enhancement in teaching and the student experience in higher education. The Higher Education Academy has the aim of promoting and disseminating good practice in learning and teaching in Higher Education. It includes the national network of 24 discipline-based Subject Centres, having formed in 2004 from a merger of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE), the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN), and the TQEF National Co-ordination Team (NCT).

The GEES Subject Centre is based at the University of Plymouth and works in collaboration with the relevant professional bodies and committees of Heads of Departments (Committee of Heads of Environmental Science, Committee of Heads of University Geoscience Departments, Committee of Heads of Geography Departments, The Geological Society, The Royal Geographical Society with The Institute of British Geographers and the Institute of Environmental Sciences). Interdisciplinary collaboration is a continuing hallmark of The GEES Subject Centres' work and approach.