National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) 2023

The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme, abbreviated as NTFS, is organised by Advance HE UK and is offered to individuals as an excellence award in higher education teaching in the UK: England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. Those who want to apply or participate in the NTFS must be a member of full-time or affiliate members of Advance HE UK. A total of 55 individuals will be awarded with the NTFS 2023. Let’s explore more about this fellowship scheme.

Name of the Scheme	National Teaching Fellowship Scheme
Location	The UK: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Organising Body	Advance HE UK
Awards	Financial BenefitsCertificate
Eligibility	Must have taught at a higher institution in the UK or Must be a member of a higher education institution in the UK.
Official Website	https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/

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NTFS 2023 Dates

The Advance HE UK released the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme 2023 guidelines and application forms on 3rd October 2022. The Teaching Excellence Award Leads (TEALs) can apply for this scheme and can have access to the Virtual Learning Experience (VLE). Interested candidates can check the table below which highlights all the important dates related to the NTFS 2023.

Activities	Date
Call for nominations	3rd October 2022
Nomination closing date	8th March 2023
Release date for individual outcomes	3rd July 2023
Official Announcement for the National Teaching Fellows	3rd August 2023
Award Ceremony	To be announced (Autumn)

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NTFS 2023 Eligibility

To become eligible for the NTFS 2023 must be a member of the Advance HE UK institutions.  Those institutions can nominate a maximum of 3 teachers or staff members of higher education. 

• Once selected for this fellowship scheme, selected candidates will be termed as nominees.
• A total of 55 nominations will be made by the Advance HE UK under the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme 2023.
• The Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Advance HE UK will complete and sign the Institutional Statement of Support to all the eligible individuals.
• Institutions must select up to three nominees that reflect their institution’s diversity in staff body. 
• It’s up to the candidates who select any role that contributes to the enhancement of students’ academic performance and their teaching profession.
• Staff members of the institution can also be nominated at any stage of their career and must be employed on a contractual basis; full-time, part-time or non-permanent.
• Staff nominees must be either from teaching and/or supporting student learning within a member institution. For example; Research and Learning or Teaching.
• Individuals working as staff members at an overseas campus, whilst employed by the member UK HEP, are eligible to be nominated.

Documents Required

The NTFS nomination documents should be coordinated with the Teaching Excellence Award Leads (TEAL) and must be uploaded to the Advance HE’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and must be submitted online with other surveys. The NTFS documents comprise three categories listed below.

• Claim: All the nominees have to submit a statement using the downloadable form in which they are required to describe the positive impact of their relation to all three award criteria. The maximum word limit of this document should not exceed 1500. All the documents must be submitted in PDF format.
  
• Signed Statement of Support: A statement with endorsement and their institution’s perspective to support their Claim. From 2023 onwards, this statement must be written by a colleague in the senior management from the nominating institution. The word limit of this support statement must not exceed 1000 words and must be signed off by the vice-chancellor of the institution.

• Nominee Profile Form: This is an online form and must be completed by the nominee, where the applicant’s background details and a 50-word summary must be submitted. Nominees are required to submit their personal profiles in the third person (i.e. ‘Dawn Pendragon works at the University of Heworth’). Nominees can click here to fill out this online form.
  
• Photos: Nominees must submit three differed high-resolution photographs in the jpeg format.
  
• Equal Opportunities Monitoring Survey: An online survey must be completed by the nominee, which will be anonymously used to report on equality and diversity. Nominees can click here to fill out the survey.

NTFS 2023 Award Criteria

Depending on the evidence provided, all the NTFS nominee’s Claims will be awarded according to three NTFS award criteria listed below:

• NTFS Criterion 1: Individual excellence: Evidence of enhancing and transforming student outcomes and/or the teaching profession
• NTFS Criterion 2: Raising the profile of excellence: Evidence of supporting colleagues and influencing support for student learning and/or the teaching profession
• NTFS Criterion 3: Developing excellence:  Showing the nominee’s commitment to and impact on ongoing professional development with regard to teaching and learning and/or learning support

How to Develop the NTFS Claim?

The NTFS Claim is divided into three categories all of which are listed below:

• Section A: Context Statement with a maximum word count of 300 words
• Section B: Claim against the NTFS Award Criteria with a maximum word count of 1500 words against each criterion
• Section C: Reference List

Only Section B which contains evidence against each of the three NTFS award criteria, is scored by reviewers; Sections A and C are not scored.

NTFS 2023 Selection Process

After the nominations are completed, there will be external reviewers for each nominee to require their profiles independently against the three award criteria in Section B of the Claim against the NTFS Award Criteria:

• The Statement of Support provided by the institution will validate the nominee’s claim from the institution’s perspective
• The Context Statement and the Reference List will not be reviewed
• The Advance HE’s reviewers are members of the teaching and learning in the Higher Education (HE) sector
• The role of the reviewers is carried out in a confidential way and their identities are not shared with nominees, nominating institutions or the UK Teaching Excellence Awards Advisory Panel during the selection and award process
• The reviewers score each of the three criteria 0-9
• A series of algorithms are applied to differentiate scores and create an overall ranking.
• The UK Teaching Excellence Awards Advisory Panel reviews equal opportunities data, the rankings and reviewer comments and makes recommendations for award winners, which are subsequently ratified by the Advance HE Chief Executive Group

NTFS 2023 Award Ceremony

The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme 2023 awards will be presented at a formal dinner, to which all the successful nominees, their personal guests and the Principal/ Vice-Chancellor/ head of their Institution will be invited. The date for the NTFS award ceremony is yet to be announced, but this event will take place in Autumn 2023.

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