HEA Scotland Travel Fund
This continuing initiative, launched by Academy Scotland in the 2008-09 academic year, is aimed at encouraging the exchange and dissemination of good practices, at the discipline level, throughout the UK. Over the last two years we have awarded almost 70 bursaries to staff and students from 17 institutions. It is specifically aimed at enabling staff and students in Scottish HEIs to engage with colleagues from other parts of the UK and to support their institution’s priorities and developments in learning and teaching. The initiative supports the following strategic aims of the Higher Education Academy:
- Identify, develop and disseminate evidence-informed approaches;
- Broker and encourage the sharing of effective practice;
- Support universities and colleges in bringing about strategic change;
- Raise the status of teaching.
The funding may be used to help colleagues attend conferences, network meetings and special interest groups organised (or jointly organised) by the Higher Education Academy and its Subject Centre network, that are being run in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. Please note that funding may not be used for events that are being held in Scotland or for events that are being held outside the UK.
