Huddersfield congratulates 2018 GTEA winners

Canada’s McMaster University has succeeded the University of Huddersfield by winning the second Global Teaching Excellence Award

THE University of Huddersfield has congratulated one of the world’s leading universities on becoming Huddersfield’s successor as holder of a prestigious international title.

In 2017, Huddersfield was the inaugural winner of the Global Teaching Excellence Award, administered by the Higher Education Academy.  

Now, at a ceremony in Edinburgh, it has been announced that the 2018 winner is McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.  Founded in 1887, it has 31,000 students and more than 70 research institutes.  It is ranked as one of the top 100 universities in the world.

As with the University of Huddersfield in 2017, McMaster earned the GTEA after its detailed submission was judged by a panel of leading educationalists from around the globe.  There were 16 other finalists.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, Professor Bob Cryan, was quick to congratulate McMaster on its victory.

“Winning the inaugural GTEA has been a source of enormous pride at Huddersfield,” he said.  “It was a great tribute to our teaching and learning strategy and was a massive boost to our global reputation as a truly international university.  I am sure that McMaster will reap the rewards that we did.”

Professor Cryan was a guest speaker at the event in Edinburgh that conferred the 2018 GTEA.  He told the audience how winning the award had led to contact from universities around the world plus fact-finding visits from overseas parties of academics and researchers.