Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching | Reward and Recognition

USW Staff Thanks, Award and Recognition Scheme (STARS)

The USW Staff Thanks, Award and Recognition Scheme (STARS) is a celebration of our staff. We want to support and showcase our staff, and share the ways of working within USW which exceed expectations, which help to improve everyone’s experience at the University.

The scheme is designed to formally recognise and thank staff for their contribution to the University and wider community, enabling the institution to capture and highlight the practice of our staff.

This self- and peer-nominated award recognises individuals or teams who demonstrate innovation and emerging impact in one of three categories:

Service Delivery and Development;
Research, Innovation and Engagement; or
Teaching and Supporting Learning.

If you would like to nominate yourself or a colleague for a STARS Award, please email [email protected] for more information about the nomination process.

National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS)

The Advance HE National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) recognises, rewards and celebrates individuals who have made an outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession.

Benefits include:

Achieving a National Teaching Fellowship is widely recognised in higher education within the UK as well as internationally as a mark of quality.
The award can help ‘open doors’ to new academic or career opportunities.
Award winners join a national community of like-minded professionals, Association of National Teaching Fellows (ANTF), who are passionate about teaching excellence. NTFs will have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with other fellows to further their impact, both individually and collectively.

Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE)

The Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) recognises and celebrates collaborative learning and teaching initiatives that impact positively on the student experience in creative and innovative ways.

The CATE encourages the sector to make visible and recognise the valuable contribution that team and collaborative working makes to the student learning experience. Winning a CATE is powerful recognition of team and/or collaborative . It is a widely understood scheme that reflects positively both on the winners and the they work for.

Benefits include:

It provides teams with national recognition and profile of their collaborative work in learning and teaching within higher education.
The award can help open doors to new collaborative or career opportunities.
Joining a national community of like-minded professionals who are passionate about collaborative approaches to teaching excellence.

Annual USW Teacher and Adviser Awards

The Annual USW Teacher and Adviser Awards, supported by Reaching Wider, recognises and celebrates teachers and advisers from secondary schools and colleges across Wales who have demonstrated excellence in one of the following categories:

Outstanding Pastoral and Well-being Support.
Supporting Progression to Higher Education.
Inspirational Teacher or Adviser of the Year.