Hi Alison
I am Head of Academic Skills at Portsmouth. What do you mean by
regrading? Was this done through HERA? I am concerned about my
group - we have five full time posts all on academic contracts and are
located in Student Services but we have plans to move into faculty.
Best Wishes
Mary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alison Green
> Sent: 09 June 2005 14:30
> To: 'John Hilsdon'
> Subject: RE: A visitor from New Zealand
>
>
> John,
>
> I would be worried, perhaps not for yourself but for any new
staff.Here
> at Bournemouth we are very cut off from academics apart from
where we
> can force our way in. Having been 're-graded' I find that, despite
> formal meetings accompanied by a union rep, I do not teach: I
'organise
> and deliver'. If I 'taught' they would have to upgrade me. When I
> queried the inclusion of 'teaching skills' as an 'essential' on the job
> description I was told that these were needed for when I have to
stand
> in front of groups of 25 and....organise and deliver. It's a similar
> story for the dyslexia support tutors (who have to have a teaching
qual
> in order to be a dyslexia support tutor). We are part of Academic
> Services and services don't teach!
>
> Alison
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: learning development in higher education network
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Hilsdon
> Sent: 09 June 2005 13:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: A visitor from New Zealand
>
>
> Hi All (and hi, Carol)
>
> I am having a go at clearing email backlog and came across John
> (Bradbeer)'s message about Carol's visit and her questions about LD
and
> integration.
>
> As someone whose 'learning centre' has now been disaggregated (?
> separated from) our Educational Development service (against the
wishes
> of our team), and placed in an 'Office of the Dean of Students' along
> with a Careers Service and Disability Assist Service, I could give a
> perspective on 'reversing' back into a Student Services type of
> organisation. It's not all bad and I don't want to be cynical, but we
> have definitely lost some of the synergy with our ED colleagues
around
> academic practice issues and, in particular, our direct links to
> teaching staff via faculty links and the Learning and Teaching in
Higher
> Education programme for staff. A 'service' mentality gives me worries
> about fostering a 'remedial/bolt-on' mentality that could veer towards
> encouraging the deficit model in terms of a 'students with problems -
> refer them to the xxxx service ...' approach .... I wrote a little about
> this last year in an article for Educational Developments (2004
> "Learning Development in Higher Education Network: An Emerging
Community
> of Practice?" Educational Developments 5.3, Birmingham: SEDA)
>
> I'd be happy to talk to you, Carol (if you're still in the UK) - on the
> phone would be easiest for me - 07973 425931. You're welcome to
visit
> Plymouth too.
>
> John
>
>
>
> John Hilsdon
> Co-ordinator, Learning Development
> University of Plymouth
> Drake Circus
> Plymouth
> PL4 8AA
>
> 01752 232276
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/learn
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: learning development in higher education network
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Bradbeer
> Sent: 22 April 2005 09:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: A visitor from New Zealand
>
> List members may not know that I was in New Zealand for five
weeks
> recently and visited several academic development and student
learning
> deevlopment centres. Arising from this, Dr Carol Bond of the
Student
> Learning Centre at the University of Otago in Dunedin, has contacted
me
> on my return and asked about the possibility of visiting UK student
> learning centres that are integrated into wider academic development
> units, just as the SLC is in Otago. Carol, I think, hopes to be in the
> UK during June this year. So if any members would like to invite
Carol,
> then please do contact her [log in to unmask]
>
> She does have some specific questions:
>
> - how do people integrate or bring into the mainstream of curricula
> learning and study skills?
> - what institutional policies and structures seem to work to do this?
> - what new approaches do people have to help students acquire and
> develop learning and study skills?
> - what are the staff development issues around all this and how are
they
> being handled (and, I guess, by whom)?
>
>
> I can confirm that they have a wonderful system of student support at
> Otago and some facilitities and premises that made my mouth water.
And
> of course, Dunedin is a really super city.
>
> Many thanks
>
> John
>
> John Bradbeer
> Principal Lecturer in Higher Education
> School of Education and Continuing Studies
> University of Portsmouth
> 141 High Street
> Old Portsmouth
> Portsmouth
> PO1 2HY
>
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