Includes bibliographical references and index.

From a community of scholars to a company -- The role of national UK organisations in enhancing the quality of teaching and learning -- Assuring and improving teaching quality -- Education development units and the enhancement of university teaching -- Decentralised approaches to education development : supporting quality teaching and learning from within a faculty -- Alignment and synergy : leadership and education development -- Integrating teaching and learning principles with IT infrastructure and policy -- Educating university teachers : participation and access issues for students who have a disability -- Education development : the role of graduate university teaching programmes --Education development through funded projects -- Towards a profession of tertiary teaching : academic attitudes in Australia.