These are unique opportunities in which they involve not only the cognitive development of the teacher, but provide a globalizing experience, rich in all aspects of academic life.

I think they are very significant. They are not only a way to increase your credibility in HE and achieve a recognised title, they also get you to go through a process of reflection and development of your practice. I worked on my Senior Fellowship for 6 months in a peer coaching process and found it highly valuable. I am now championing the UKPSF scheme to colleagues.

Due you mean scholarships

These are unique opportunities in which they involve not only the cognitive development of the teacher, but provide a globalizing experience, rich in all aspects of academic life.

very significant and has a great important

good discussion

Fellowships are awarded and honoured to lecturers on the ground of their laudable contributions to knowledge. it role is significant during appraisal in some universities

I think this is valuable at any stage of the (mutual/international) interaction. It may develop new questions and also give more opportunities to realistic reasoning.

I want to look at at fellowships as short term opportunities that may last for at least a period of three months to a year focusing on professional development of a person in this case a lecturer, there are rare chances accorded to specific lecturers usually after realizing a gap or a need within the lecturer, the institution or the organisation a person is working for to empower that lecturer so as to address the need or the gap in question. Therefore, fellowships basing on my definition are of a great significance if there well directed to address a gap or an identified need.

Many thanks for your responses. However, can I get responses on the significance of the Fellowship application process on the following: Articulation of one's own teaching practice; Critical reflection on teaching; Understanding frameworks and criteria for meeting preset UKPSF standards; significance in teaching excellence recognition; Evidence-based teaching practice; et cetera.

Commonwealth academic fellowship upheld my confidence and taken to higher level of thinking of andragogy.

Strengthening and validation of one's own practice is one of the benefits of the Fellowship. Evidencing the effects of one's own Teaching and Learning approaches and practices, one's influence departmentally, institutionally, nationally and internationally is one of the benefits of the UKPSF. The framework forms the basis for meaning comparisons and benchmarks around teaching and learning practices. You will never know where you stand and where you should be on your teaching and learning until you become a Fellow. The recognition, status and honour bestowed by a professional body on account of one's own practice in respect of teaching and learning is a treasure.

Articulation of one's own practice is the starting point in critical reflective practice. If you cannot do that, you most probably are not sure about what you are doing. Understanding one's own practice requires knowing the core knowledge, professional values, contextual factors and theoretical underpinnings of one's own practices. The Fellowship application process enables one to write about what one does, how s/he does it, why things are done in a particular way, and how others feel about what one does. It also requires one to provide evidence of one's successful engagements with the chosen or adopted methods, approaches and strategies. The Fellowship is an account of one's own practice and a measure of success or otherwise, and helps one to plan forward towards improvement and further development of one's own practice.