Desires of industry, products from academia - Ships that pass in the night?

The launch of the UK-wide Learning and Teaching support Network (LTSN) in January 2000 following a British Government review of existing learning and teaching initiatives in higher education (HE) is discussed. The aim of LTSN is to provide support to academics in order to improve the provision of learning and teaching in HE. LTSN engineering aims to support engineering academics in learning and teaching through various techniques. These techniques are co-ordination and support, creating a national focus which is the point of contact and collating and disseminating good practice and innovation