Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) has reached a Fellowship milestone with over 100 Fellows at the University.
Last year, PNU became the first university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to achieve Advance HE accreditation, meaning that it can confer Fellowship on candidates who successfully complete its Academic Excellence Programme (AEP).
Concurrently, Advance HE has worked with the University to help develop its MA in Women's Leadership Programme; part of the support involved leadership capacity building for the Programme leaders to successfully lead and manage the programme.
Dr Dina Al-Hammadi, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, said. “We are very proud to have reached this Fellowship milestone. This, along with our leadership training, highlights our commitment and investment in continuous professional development for staff which brings benefits to the individual, to the students that they teach, and to the University’s reputation for teaching excellence. I am very proud of the CETL team who have been instrumental in taking this work forward.”
Ian Hall, Advance HE’s Head of Membership (International), said, “The work that PNU has invested in staff development in Teaching and Learning and in Leadership is really beginning to bear fruit. The culture for continuous professional development is very well-embedded and underpins the effective delivery of the University’s forward-thinking teaching strategy.”
PNU is a public women's university – the largest women's university in the world with over 2200 academic staff and more than 27,000 students. Its 100+ Fellows join the growing number of staff with Fellowship, now nearly 155,000 Fellows, including over 12,000 outside the United Kingdom.
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