PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES IN EUROPE

Higher education professional development trends are increasingly focusing on areas such as quality improvement, quality assurance, and optimal technology delivery models in order to achieve academic excellence. Universities around the world rely on their faculty professional development centers to provide a variety of professional development programmes to support teaching, research, and student learning.

Faculty of professional development in European higher education provides some significant insights for audiences all over the world. Despite the fact that European higher education leaders have recognized that promoting student-centered teaching and improving teaching quality are critical for the future, and that certain countries, such as Belgium, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, have taken proactive steps to support high-quality, student-centered instruction, most European countries continue to rely on a more traditional approach.