EFPTA’s newsletters from 2007 to 2022 contain a wealth of materials from conferences including conference presentations and articles on all sorts of topics relating to psychology education. Do take a look. From 2022 onwards we replaced our newsletter with regular blog posts.
Written by: Morag Williamson
Date: February 11, 2025
I joined the Association for the Teaching of Psychology (ATP), UK in December 2014 and was honoured to become a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (the UK’s national psychologists’ association) in September 2020. My students and I have benefitted from my membership of these communities in many ways...
Written by: Morag Williamson
Date: September 1, 2024
Within the UK, there has been an increasingly noisy rhetoric about “low quality” university courses, which has focused on the idea that some subjects are so-called “Mickey Mouse” subjects. The term “Mickey Mouse degree” was coined by former Labour Minister for Education Margaret Hodge in 2003, and signified a degree “where the content is not as rigorous as one would expect, and where the degree itself does not have huge relevance in the labour market”. In the past 20 years, graduate earning potential has become the key defining feature. For example, Damian Hinds, Conservative Education Secretary in 2019 suggested that a degree was “economically without value” if a student did not repay their student loan within five years of graduation – and as such, universities should stop teaching them.
Written by: Morag Williamson
Date: April 1, 2024
In November 2023 I had the opportunity to join the European Federation of Psychology Teachers’ Associations (EFPTA) as a Board member, representing the ATP (England & Wales) and attending the Board meeting in Edinburgh. What a fascinating experience! I can’t wait to go to the EFPTA Conference in Helsinki in April 2024 and find out much more about psychology teaching all over Europe.
