Resources: Student support services

8 resources found for "Student support services"
Is university really for everyone?
This is an ESCalate student grant awarded to Alice Collett of Bath Spa University. This research aims to facilitate a personal account of university experience for somebody with cerebral palsy. This single case study account describes difficulties faced and triumphs achieved of a 22 year old man with cerebral palsy. The findings suggest an urgent need to redress how disabled students are included at university on a national scale. This is both to...
M Level PGCE
The ideas here are presented by delegates who attended the ESCalate ITE M level PGCE seminar at the University of Gloucestershire on January 9th 2007 and it forms part of the ESCalate Help Directory for Teacher Educators. Discussions covered the following topic areas: * Staff development; * School-baesd research; * Curriculum structure and content; * Student induction and support; * Admissions and support. There was lively...
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 *...
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
Continuum : survey : new learning professionals
ESCalate provided funding to support work with widening participation practitioners to be extended to staff managing student ambassadors and mentoring schemes. Professor John Storan, Dr Petula Peters and Kathy Wright of the University of East London led this piece of commissioned work that aimed to explore the extent of support and recognition for practitioners and identify the learning and training needs of a particular group of support staff....
PILS - Personalised Integrated Learning Support
PILS will create a holistic model of learner support, derived from exisiting excellence, to enable the individual student to manage their own learning more effectively
What a National Teaching Fellowship means to me
This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 16, spring 2010. Richard Hall writes about how the award has helped him to develop and support networks of e-Learning co-ordinators across his institution
Resources from Care and Well being: personal, social and global approaches to ESD/GC in ITE
This Web page is a brief description of the event Care and Well being: personal, social and global approaches to ESD/GC in ITE, held at South Bank University, on 2 March 2011. It was organised by ESCalate and UK ITE Network. The half day workshop explored what was meant by well being and the contribution of ESD/GC to achieving this. (There are no actual resources available via the link)