Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Fwd: 17th Annual SEDA Conference



Dear Colleagues

 

17th Annual SEDA Conference: Excellence in Teaching: recognising, enhancing, evaluating and achieving impact

 

The next SEDA Conference takes place at the Aston Business Centre on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th November 2012. If you plan to attend the above conference please note that the early bird rate finishes on Thursday 18th October. The programme and registration form can be found on www.seda.ac.uk

 

Kind regards

 

Ann

 

Ann Aitken

SEDA

Woburn House

20-24 Tavistock Square

London WC1H 9HF

 

Tel: 020 7380 6731

 

www.seda.ac.uk

 

 

 

 





 

David Andrew, 
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor
 



The Learning Institute 
Queen Mary, University of London

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Monday, 1 October 2012

Fwd: Manchester Workshop - How can e-Portfolios Support 21st Century Learning?




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How can e-Portfolios Support 21st Century Learning?  10:00 - 16:30 Thursday 25th October, 2012  (registration from 09:30)    Sackville Building, University of Manchester, places are £50, Book Now: http://bit.ly/Snj6wF     LIMITED PLACES STILL AVAILABLE    e-Portfolios are not a new concept. In various guises, digital presentations of skills and competences, online records of achievement, and action plans with opportunities for reflection have been in use in education for nearly a decade. So what is new about e-portfolios?    This workshop will explore what we mean by e-portfolios and how e-portfolios can support 21st century learning. Drawing on the work of JISC-funded projects and other significant e-portfolio developments, it will provide a snapshot of learning enhanced by e-portfolios in higher, further and continuing education.    The keynote speaker is Lisa Gray, e-Learning Programme Manager at JISC.  Guest presenters include:   - Duncan Gillespie (Dumfries and Galloway College),   - Alan Moffatt (Cumbernauld College)  - Elizabeth Barnes (University of Manchester)    Who should attend?  This workshop is for those who use, or support others use of, e-portfolios: practitioners and managers in higher and further education; staff developers; those involved in initial teacher training; and in the management and implementation of PDP, CPD and lifelong learning.      Chris Thomson  Consultant Trainer  JISC Netskills  t: 0191 222 5000  w: http://www.netskills.ac.uk    Send the following command to listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk subscribe/unsubscribe LISTNAME FIRSTNAME LASTNAME   or  Go to the homepage of LISTNAME. Enter 'Join or leave list (or change settings)' and enter your details to join, or press the delete button.  




 

David Andrew, 
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor
 



The Learning Institute 
Queen Mary, University of London

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02078822803

02081446753

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Friday, 28 September 2012

Fwd: Clinical Reasoning in the undergraduate medical curriculum




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Subject: Clinical Reasoning in the undergraduate medical curriculum
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Clinical Reasoning in the undergraduate medical curriculum
                                          
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Health & Social Care Workshop and Seminar Series 2012 – Last chance to book




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Clinical Reasoning in the undergraduate medical curriculum

Hull York Medical School

17th Oct 2012

The Hull York Medical School (University of York campus) is holding a FREE to attend one-day workshop aimed at highlighting and exchanging best practice with regard to the teaching of clinical reasoning in undergraduate medical curricula.

The workshop will aim to generate discussion, dissemination and showcasing of different strategies used to aid students in their acquisition of clinical reasoning skills.

Speakers include:

  • Dr Janine Henderson and Dr Anna Hammond (Hull York Medical School)
  • Dr Simon Gay and Dr Maggie Bartlett (Keele School of Medicine)
  • Dr Laurence Atkinson and Dr Richard Davies (University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine)

 

To book your free place, please contact Anna Hammond. Places are limited so book now to avoid disappointment.

 

To view the event schedule and for further details visit  the event webpage.





 

David Andrew, 
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor
 



The Learning Institute 
Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End, London E1 4NS



02078822803

02081446753

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Events from the HEA newsletter

Events - for further details of these events go to heacademy.ac.uk

21. Starting out in Dance, Drama and Music: an HEA new to teaching workshop, 5 - 6 October 2012, Lancaster

This intensive two-day residential learning and teaching workshop is designed for new and early career lecturers in Dance, Drama and Music. Delegates will reflect on and share their experiences of being a university teacher in their main discipline, and address the main issues involved in providing high-quality learning and teaching experiences for students.

22. New to teaching in Social Work and Social Policy workshop, 8 - 9 October 2012, Bangor University

This is a free workshop for recently appointed staff or those in post for up to two years. Delegates will meet colleagues from other institutions who are also new to teaching in social work and social policy and can share experiences and learn from each another.

23. Student engagement with international curriculum development, 19 October 2012, Cardiff Metropolitan University

The seminar will focus on a student-centred project carried out at Cardiff Metropolitan University and will cover the student involvement in international curriculum design, how their recommendations were put into practice and the conclusions drawn from the experience.

24. Recognising holistic learning: developing the co-curriculum, 24 October 2012, University of Wales, Newport

This seminar will use case study examples from the Universities of Gloucestershire and the University of Wales, Newport to stimulate discussion on co-curricular developments and provide opportunities for those involved in enhancing the co-curricular student experience to progress collaborative opportunities.

25. Second external examiners' conference: Sharing good practice, 8 November, National Science Learning Centre, University of York

The HEA and QAA are jointly holding a conference on external examining, a repeat of the successful one held in May 2012. The event will disseminate the new QAA guidance for external examiners within the UK Quality Code for Higher Education, and also the HEA external examiners handbook. Participants will explore the new QAA and HEA guidance, and consider the impact on their practice.

26. New to teaching: Languages and Linguistics, 9 November 2012, University of Manchester

This one-day event is designed for new lecturers, teaching fellows, advanced doctoral students and other staff new to teaching languages and linguistics in higher education.

27. Paralegal education – a partnership for the future, 14 November 2012, The Open University in Scotland, Edinburgh

This workshop will disseminate good practice and develop ideas on providing flexible learning for paralegals that enhances their employability and increases the skills which they can offer employers.

28. Bologna regional workshops: Developing successful joint programmes, 22 November 2012, Glasgow and 6 December 2012, London

The British Council is holding these workshops in collaboration with the National Academic Recognition Centre (NARIC), the HEA and the UK team of Bologna Experts. They will provide practical advice and guidance to academic and administrative members of staff interested in developing joint programmes at Masters or Doctoral level.

29. New to teaching in the Social Sciences residential workshop, 22 - 23 November 2012, Milton Keynes

The workshops are ideally suited for colleagues in their first year of teaching in HE or those who are studying towards a PhD and have teaching commitments. The workshop is designed to support colleagues from across the social sciences.

30. Skills for a greener economy, 27 November 2012, Cambridge

This event aims to help crystallise the characteristics of a graduate required to contribute to and influence the transition to a greener economy and encourage delegates to discuss how HEIs can develop these characteristics through an open and transparent education.

31. European Higher Education Reforms Opportunities and Implications for the UK, 4 December 2012, Cardiff, 5 December 2012, Luton, 7 December 2012, Liverpool, and 17 January 2012, Stirling

These workshops hosted by the HEA and in collaboration with the British Council will be led by Bologna Experts. They aim to support higher education providers and individuals in ensuring their systems are able to maximise the benefit of European Higher Education reforms.

32. What can higher education contribute to improving social mobility in the UK? 26-27 March 2013, Manchester

This event will examine the contribution of higher education to improving social mobility and will explore how widening-access partnerships and collaboration can be adapted to a more competitive environment and whether new approaches and delivery models are required.




 

David Andrew, 
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor
 



The Learning Institute 
Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End, London E1 4NS



02078822803

02081446753

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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Fwd: SRHE Post-Compulsory and Higher Education Network




Progression and transitions - more than university and A-levels

 

Thursday 8th November, 2012

SRHE, 73 Collier Street, London N1 9BE

14:00-16:00

 

This seminar focuses on diversity and difference in young people's transitions at the end of secondary education in England. While recent media interest has focused on 'AAB' and transition to high tariff universities, for many students transitions involve a diversity of routes other than A-levels, and do not necessarily mean moving on to HE. Drawing on their extensive research, Professor Ann Hodgson and Professor Alison Fuller offer their analyses of the challenges and complexities of youth transitions at a time of policy turbulence and change in education.

 

 

14+ participation, progression and transition to higher study and employment: an ecological framework

Ann Hodgson, Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for 14+ Research and Innovation, Institute of Education, University of London

 

This presentation will propose a possible new way of looking at the issue of school-to-work and school–to-higher education transitions through a three-dimensional ecological model, focusing in particular on 'local learning ecologies'.  I will suggest that this model can be used as a means of understanding the interaction of a range of multi-level factors that play out at the local level to either constrain or support the participation, progression and transition of young people within upper secondary education and into higher study and employment in England.

 

Hybrid qualifications, institutional expectations and youth transitions: a case of swimming with or against the tide

Alison Fuller, Professor of Education and Work and Director of Research Centre

Southampton Education School, University of Southampton

 

This presentation uses the concept of hybrid qualifications to expose the way in which the English system, with its longstanding academic and vocational divide, fails to support the transitions of young people with 'average' educational attainment. The concept of hybrid qualifications was developed during EU funded research undertaken in 2010 – 11 with project partners from Germany, Austria and Denmark. It was conceived to mean those qualifications generally achieved by young people aged 16-18 which would facilitate entry to the labour market or access to university.  In the English system we defined Level 3 qualifications such as the BTEC National suite of Diplomas, Applied A-Levels, the Advanced Diploma and the qualifications contained within the Advanced Apprenticeship as contenders for hybridity.  Compared with the clear pathways for entry to bachelor degrees that are articulated for those who have attained traditional academic qualifications (namely A-levels), the routes for those leaving school with vocational qualifications are poorly and narrowly-defined and fragile.  Using the rich, narrative data gathered from interviews and focus groups with students, tutors and key stakeholders, we illustrate how for this group transition often involves 'swimming against rather than with the tide'.

 

 

Ann Hodgson has worked as a teacher, lecturer, LEA adviser, editor and civil servant, joining the Institute of Education, University of London in 1993, where she is now a Professor of Education, Assistant Director (London) and Co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation. Current projects include Global Learning for Global Colleges, funded by the Department for International Development; Developing a National Qualifications Framework for Qatar; Improving professional learning for the Institute for Learning; acting as the academic partner for London Councils on 14-19 education and training; developing 14+ Progression and Transition Boards with a number of local authorities; and surveying teacher and lecturer views of 14-19 policy in partnership with NUT and UCU.  Ann has published widely in a variety of forms on topics related to post-14 education policy, vocational education and training, lifelong learning and curriculum and qualifications reform.  Recent books include: Post-compulsory education and lifelong learning across the United Kingdom: policy, organisation and governance (IOE Publications 2011), co-edited with Ken Spours, and Martyn Waring; Education for All: the future of education and training for 14-19 Year Olds (Routledge 2009), co-authored with other Nuffield Review directors and researchers; Education and Training 14-19: curriculum, qualifications and organisation (Sage 2008), co-authored with Ken Spours; and Improving Learning, Skills and Inclusion: the impact of policy on post-compulsory education (Routledge 2008), co-authored with Frank Coffield, Sheila Edward, Ian Finlay, Ken Spours and Richard Steer.

 

Alison Fuller is Professor of Education and Work, and Director of Research Centre in Southampton Education School, University of Southampton (www.soton.ac.uk/education). Alison has directed many research projects in the areas of education – work transitions, apprenticeship, vocational education and training, workplace learning, and widening participation including for the ESRC, EU and EHRC and has published widely. She has recently completed a project for the Gatsby Charitable Foundation on technician level roles in the healthcare sector. Her most recent book (edited with Professor Rachel Brooks and Dr Johanna Waters) Changing Spaces of Education: new perspectives on the nature of learning has recently been published by Routledge (2012).

 

Event booking details

 

To reserve a place at this seminar please register at http://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/or telephone +44 (0) 207 427 2350.   SRHE events are open to all and free to SRHE members as part of their membership package. The delegate fee for non-members is  £45 from 1 August. Non-members wishing to join the Society may do so at the time of registration and the delegate fee will be waived. Please note that places must be booked in advance and that a £45 fee for non-attendance will be charged if a place has been reserved but no notice of cancellation/non-attendance has been given in advance.

 

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Francois Smit

SRHE Event Manager

Society for Research into Higher Education

73 Collier Street

London N1 9BE

Telephone 0207 427 2350

Fax number 0207 278 1135

srheoffice@srhe.ac.uk

http://www.srhe.ac.uk

 





 

David Andrew, 
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor
 



The Learning Institute 
Queen Mary, University of London

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02078822803

02081446753

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