ILT associateship

The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is to launch a new category of membership - associateship. A survey of HE staff undertaken by the ILT last year showed 90% support for an associate category to widen the range of people involved in teaching and learning support who can join the organisation.

The ILT is the professional body for all who teach and support learning in higher education in the UK. Launched as a result of recommendations in the Dearing Report, it is a fast-growing membership body which supports its members in their professional activities and develops and maintains standards of practice by accrediting programmes of training in HE teaching. Associateship will cater for staff, both academic and non-academic, who wish to join the ILT but who are currently ineligible because they have a shorter experience of teaching or narrower breadth of expertise. Applicants for Associateship will need to have the equivalent of only one year's experience in teaching or learning support.

Associateship may be particularly useful to postgraduate teaching assistants. But all staff engaged in teaching or learning support at all levels of seniority will be encouraged to apply for Associateship if it is appropriate to their professional experience and needs. Associateship of the ILT will bring recognition for the individual's expertise as a teacher; membership of a professional body with an entitlement to postnominal letters, and opportunities for career development. The benefits package will include regular mailings of paper-based and online publications, opportunities for networking with colleagues, discounted rates at the ILT's annual conference and discounts on specially commissioned books and on a growing range of other goods and services.

The University is able to help in a number of ways. Your application fee of £25 will be refunded by the staff development office. Application packs with an associated workshop are being offered. Email Terry Vickers t.g.vickers@dundee.ac.uk for a pack and invitation. Alternatively an application form, together with further information can be down loaded from the ILT website at www.ilt.ac.uk

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