Conclusion

17.1 The Northern College is committed to the creation of a learning environment that embraces all its activities, and to the ongoing identification and dissemination of good practice. The debate about learning - its changing purposes, value and effectiveness - needs to be a continuous one, in the light of which teaching practice must be modified to suit changing circumstances. This Guide therefore has sought to provide a starting-point and focus for that debate; one that invites feedback from those who read and use it. It constitutes the baseline from which self-assessment and review can proceed as the College strives for continuous improvement.

17.2 Inevitably, 'good practice', like practice of any kind, is concerned with what is done, and the way in which it is done. And since we rarely do things without what we perceive as good reasons, what we judge to be beneficial and effective is constantly being measured against what our experience tells us is less so.