Jethro Newton was appointed
Dean of Learning and Teaching on 1 August 2004, having previously held the
position of Director of Academic Quality Support Services.
He is Executive Editor and Editorial Board member of the
international journal, Quality in Higher Education.
Prior to that he
held positions at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, the Open
University, and the University of Bradford.
Jethro studied sociology,
literature and the history of ideas at Bradford, gained a Graduate Certificate
of Education from the University of Leeds, and was awarded a Masters in
Sociology and Social Policy by the University of Salford. He received his
doctorate from the University of Wales.
His academic interests and
publications are in the areas of higher education policy, including evaluation
of policy and strategy implementation in learning and teaching, and Jethro has
made keynote presentations on these topics at international conferences on all
five continents. He is Executive Editor and Editorial Board member of the
international journal, Quality in Higher Education.
An experienced QAA auditor,
Jethro contributes to the European Universities Association (EUA) Institutional
Evaluation Programme and has completed assignments for the EUA in Portugal,
Turkey and Lebanon. He has also worked in an advisory capacity on higher
education policy as a member of the International Advisory Board of the
National Science Research Foundation of South Africa.
Jethro has pursued his
wider academic interests at national level, in both the UK and Wales, through
membership of the HEFCE Assessment Panel for the CETL initiative, the Advisory
Panel for the Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship Scheme, and
as a member of the Expert Group on Learning and Teaching providing advice to
the Assembly Government for Wales ‘Review of Higher Education'. A former member
of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales Learning and Teaching
Committee, he also chaired the Welsh Universities Academic Development Group.
As head of the University's
Learning and Teaching Institute, Jethro has responsibility for learning and
teaching strategy, professional standards, pedagogic research, learning support
services, student achievement and retention, and institutional student surveys.
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