Learning and Teaching
When you study with Oxford Brookes University Business School you experience the distinctiveness of an organisation that is renowned for its devotion to the best in learning and teaching. Our staff persistently innovate their teaching practice to support the intellectual development of students, particularly in terms of enhancing skills in critical enquiry along with insights into current practice.
Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Our excellence in teaching and learning is recognised nationally and internationally. In an independent assessment of teaching quality, the Business School was one of only two in the country to achieve the maximum score (24/24) across more than one subject area.
The Higher Education Academy is a UK national body set up to share good practice in teaching. The School is the only Business School in the UK to host two of its 24 subject centres.
The School's reputation in teaching and learning has also been recognised through external funding for pedagogic research and innovation in employability, assessment and feedback. This has included the award of a national, multi-million-pound Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, focused on improving assessment practices and which has financed new learning spaces in the School. These spaces provide comfortable and hospitable places for our students to do their work, both individually and collaboratively, whilst supported by the latest technology.
Expertise and a supportive environment
Our innovative teaching practice is not just borne out of 'blue sky thinking', it is based on evidence and, in a large part, on the substantive published research and continual evaluation of teaching and learning that takes place in the School. The School hosts some of the UK's leading experts and practitioners in teaching and learning, including two National Teaching Fellows, seven University Teaching Fellows, a professor in assessment learning and a pedagogic research centre.
Learn from the staff who write the books
Our academic staff have been very active when it comes to disseminating their knowledge. More than 250 articles have been produced in the last five years, and best-selling textbooks have been published in marketing, tourism and research methods amongst many other fields. Where better to learn than from the authors themselves?
Our teaching philosophy
The Business School has an engrained commitment to student-centred and active teaching methods where teaching means more than the simple transmission of information. We know that the business knowledge of today will be largely redundant in the business world of tomorrow. To succeed, our graduates need the ability to renew their knowledge, to seek out new and relevant information, to analyse and evaluate changing business environments and to create innovative solutions. To this end we focus on skills of critical enquiry blended with practical insights. To underpin this aspiration we seek to provide an educational experience that is:
- Relevant – grounded in managerial and professional practice and research
- Challenging – setting high expectations, whilst providing the support required for students to live up to these expectations
- Stimulating – providing varied experiences which take students beyond conventional lectures and seminars and the knowledge of today
- Internationally-oriented – preparing students for careers in increasingly integrated global organisations
- Inclusive - where the contributions of all students, academic and support staff are valued
- Satisfying and good value – where students assess their experience as both worthwhile and enjoyable and where student dissatisfaction is responded to both rapidly and fairly
Fully accredited
Our quality standards are monitored by the UK Government, by external accreditation and through membership of professional associations worldwide.
