The National Subject Profile in Microbiology is designed to provide contemporary characterisations the subject and its provision in higher education. Informed by discipline communities and practitioners the profile has been initiated compiled and written by the Centre for Bioscience.
The profile establishes the context of current provision in relation to the historical development of the subject as a teaching discipline; the significance of the subject for employment; the current range of higher education (HE) programmes and curriculum content; the key teaching learning and assessment patterns at subject level; trends in relation to staffing profiles; trends in relation to student entry profiles student numbers and graduate destinations; and some baseline comparisons with other countries including models of provision elsewhere and transferability of qualifications.
