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The Disability Service can provide support and advice with study skills if you have a specific learning difficulty, such as dyslexia, in addition to assistive technology to help students overcome any barriers to learning.
ILA Scotland is a Scottish Government scheme that helps pay for learning that you can do at a time, place, pace and in a way to suit you. It's for people who have an income of £22,000 a year or less, or who are on benefits.
ICBL specialises in the design, description and evaluation of computer-based resources and their use in further and higher education. Our current expertise includes resource discovery services, metadata standards for learning resources and evaluation of computer-based learning resources.
As a Heriot-Watt University International Partner your institution becomes part of the University's global network. We have a real international flavour to our community with the largest international student cohort in Scotland. We've also established an unsurpassed international in-country presence, delivering degree programmes to 11,800 students in 150 countries around the world.
The Learning and Teaching Board develops and implements the University's Learning and Teaching Strategy in consultation with Schools, Support Services and the Students Association, and to monitor, evaluate and review the strategy and its implementation. The Board is responsible, on behalf of the University, for responding to and engaging with national developments in learning and teaching. The Board reports to the Planning and Management Executive.
The Learning and Teaching Board has institutional responsibility for the setting and implementation of all strategic issues related to learning and teaching. This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the Learning and Teaching Board, and is intended to be useful for both members and their substitutes in executing their roles on the Board.
A wide range of documents, procedures, guidelines and forms relating to academic development are collected here to clarify Heriot-Watt's approach to examination assessment, student progression and awards. The information also covers approval procedures for the appointment of teachers, tutors and Approved Learning Partners, as well as the approval of programmes, courses and modules. The specification of programmes and curriculum design and the Common Assessment and Progression Systems (CAPS) are also explained. Details of the qualifications framework and academic structure as well as the Scottish Funding Council Higher Education part-time fee waiver scheme are also available.
This document defines the roles of two Boards of PME (Research Co-ordination Board and Learning & Teaching Board) and the roles and responsibilities of their academic members - School Directors of Research, and Learning & Teaching.
Heriot-Watt University wishes to make every effort to assist students with disabilities. To this end, those students may record lectures in accordance with these procedure.
The SCHOLAR supported-learning programme provides common educational resources and a 'virtual college' support network. An initiative of Heriot-Watt University, a SCHOLAR course can be studied through a partner school or college in your area, or directly with the University. Credits that you earn can gain you exemptions from some university or college courses, meaning that you can progress faster towards a higher education degree. Heriot-Watt University welcomes applications from students with good Higher, Advanced Higher, HN and A-level credits. The programme gives you the flexibility to choose how far you go in your studies and how fast you progress.
