Addresses the need to recognize academics' contribution to higher education and examines ways in which academics' efforts in the teaching and learning process can be acknowledged and suitably rewarded.

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Evaluation of the Teaching of Individual Academics in Higher Education: Progress Towards a Construct, Ken Gregory; Chapter 2 Assurance of Teaching Quality: Top-Down and/or Bottom-Up Strategy, Eric A. Ash; Chapter 3 Quality Assessment in Higher Education in England: Present Performance, Future Perspectives, Paul M. Clark; Chapter 4 Teaching Profiles: The Quality Context, Roger Brown; Chapter 5 Criteria for Teaching Competence and Teaching Excellence in Higher Education, Lewis Elton; Chapter 6 Promoting Excellent Teachers at Oxford Brookes University: From Profiles to Peer Review in Ten Years, Graham Gibbs; Chapter 7 Contributions on Specific Aspects from Part Icular Institutions:, David Buckingham; Chapter 7a 7.2 Developing, Recording and Recognizing Good Teaching, George Gordon; Chapter 7b 7.3 Documenting and Assessing Teaching Excellence, Dai Hounsell; Chapter 7c 7.4 The Use of Standard Course Evaluation and a Standard CV, Haydn Mathias; Chapter 7d 7.5 Course Innovation: Benefits and Risks, Roy Haines-Young; Chapter 8 Quality Assurance at MacQuarie University, Alan Lindsay; Chapter 9 Successfully Creating a Customer Focused Culture Throughout Your Organization and Effectively Managing the Change, Colin M. Livingstone, Wayne M. Phillips; Chapter 10 The Individual and the Institution: Quality Management in Higher Education, Bob Aylett, Derek Hilyer; Chapter 11 A Construct for Teaching Profiles, Ken Gregory; Chapter 12 The Prospect, Bob Aylett, Ken Gregory;