McMaster University has gained worldwide recognition, as the winner of this year’s Global Teaching Excellence Award.

The Canadian institution, a long-standing W100 member, was awarded the prize, run by UK sector agency Advance HE in partnership with Times Higher Education, in recognition of its university-wide commitment to high-quality teaching.

The judges praised McMaster for “the strength of its vision and plan for achieving teaching excellence and the provision of evidence that it is embedded institution-wide”.

McMaster, home to W100 Chair Andrea Farqhuar, has recently been through a branding exercise, which you can learn all about at the forthcoming World 100 Conference at UBC. Andrea, alongside David Estok, Vice president, Communications, University of Toronto will be discussing “Smoothing the Rocky Road to Branding Success”.