Each year, the editorial team of the International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD) appoints an international selection panel to choose an ‘Article of the Year’ from all articles published in IJAD in a given calendar year. The IJAD Article of the Year 2014 is the article that the selection committee feels best meets the […]

Quality learning and teaching with sessional/adjunct/casual teachers: Systematising good practice for academic development

Internationally, a reliance on sessional academics* for university teaching has become institutionalised (Coates & Goedegebuure, 2010; Parker, 2012). The global trend is that the reliance on sessionals will continue and even increase (Jaschik & Lederman, 2015) and thus sessional teachers are […]

The full report is available to download: The Preparation of University Teachers Internationally