Resources: Higher and further education sector
13 resources found for "Higher and further education sector"
- HE in FE
- This resource details the work of ESCalate in supporting the delivery of Higher Education courses / content in Further Education. About 10% of all HE delivery takes place in FE settings. ESCalate is working to expand its support for FE colleagues delivering HE programmes. They do this by disseminating resources for staff new to teaching HE in the FE sector, offering ideas, network links and event information, asking for comments, suggestions and...
- Newsletter Issue 21 - Autumn 2011
- The last edition of the ESCalate newsletter. The editorial is provided by ESCalate's Director Andrew Pollard as well as colleagues across the Education community, gathering together their thoughts on the legacy ESCalate leaves behind but also what support continues to be available to the community
- PGCE M Level
- This ESCalate Busy Teacher Educator Guide on the PGCE M Level has been written by Dr Keira Sewell, Primary PGCE Programme Director, School of Education, University of Southampton. It covers the characteristics of effective PGCE M level practice, programme design and organisation, teaching, assessment, collaborative work with schools, Quality Assurance, marketing, the benefits of PGCE M level to students and teacher educators and how the PGCE M...
- The teaching research interface : implications for practice in HE and FE
- The teaching research interface : implications for practice in HE and FE is a selection of conference papers presented on 29th - 30th April 2008 at the University of Stirling, and edited by Muir Houston of the University of Stirling on behalf of ESCalate. There has been a growing interest in recent years in what has been termed the nexus between teaching and research and its impact on student learning. There can be important disciplinary...
- The ESCalate-JISC HE in FE Conference: Inspiration for Practice
- A collection of conference proceedings and presentation reports arising from the ESCalate-JISC HE in FE conference in May 2010. It includes contributions from more than a dozen speakers on topics ranging from Widening Participation to e-learning, in the context of Higher Education in Further Education
- First Year Experience in Continuing Education
- Abstracts and presentations of this two-day international conference addressing the subject of Student Retention in Continuing Education held in April 2006
- The first-year experience in higher education in the UK: Report on Phase 1 of a project funded by the Higher Education Academy
- The first major UK study of students’ first-year experiences in higher education has found that over 80% of students found their studies stimulating and over 70% thought the teaching they received was supportive – but nearly 60% were worried about financing their studies and 58% said they had to undertake paid work in order to support themselves while in higher education. The study aimed to find out what aspects of the student experience may...
- Student Employability Profiles
- The Higher Education Academy with the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) has produced this guide to promote and support the use of the Student Employability Profiles. We envisage that this guide will be of benefit to a wide range of staff within higher education including those closely concerned with: * Designing and delivering the curriculum * Supporting students’ personal development planning activities *...
- Scholarly activity undertaken in HE in FE
- This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 14, summer 2009 by Madeline King and John Widdowson. This article looks at provision given in FECs (Further Education colleges) for Higher Education programmes and looks forward to new initiatives
- Assessment in Continuing Education
- Presentations from this one-day conference for staff working in continuing education held on the 14th June 2005. Presentations include: "Assessment in Continuing Education: Student diversity and assessment design", a case study from the University of Cambridge"; Assessing Continuing Education", by Derek Young and Ginny Saich from ESCalate at the University of Stirling; "Flexible and accountable? Using professional dialogue to assess competence in...
- Widening Participation to University Study Through Flexible Delivery
- Abstracts and presentations from this one day conference held on the 21st October 2005
- ESCalate activity with key partners in the FE sector
- This is an article from the ESCalate bulletin by Phil Price, published in autumn 2007. It looks at the work of ESCalate within the UK Further Education sector, specifically in the areas of teacher education, CPD needs of experienced teachers and teacher educators and the professional development needs of HE in FE practitioners
- UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development: Higher Education on or off course?
- This paper comments on the role of the higher education sector relating to sustainable development