Hi Paul,
we don't have staff development days in term time and close the building to students - if all staff have to attend a meeting it happens out of term time. We have had to have our degree shows in late May before now.
Cary Welling
Photography Programme Leader
Nottingham Trent University
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From: Association for Photography in Higher Education on behalf of John Gulliver
Sent: Fri 07/09/2007 5:14 PM
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Subject: Re: Message from Paul Taylor Croydon College
hi paul,
on your first point, i think you have a valid concern. out of interest,
our mandatory all-staff conferences etc., are usually run out of term
time so students are _not_ inconvenienced. the rest of the training
calendar is marked as either: mandatory all-staff, mandatory academic,
academic and 'open to all'. and happens throughout the term in half day
'focused' sessions. generally staff can manage a 2 hour session without
disrupting learning or teaching or excluding students. and because
training is cyclic, if they have to miss one session, they can maybe
pick it up next term or at another more convenient time.
john gulliver
Conrad Tracy wrote:
> Hi Paul
> Our 'Staff Development Days' tend to fall in term time, effecting both
> FE and HE provision. Our degree shows, outside of our own institute,
> happen after our graduation, therefore tending to fall during the
> first two weeks of July (there are exceptions for courses who show at
> larger subject specific trade shows, such as Model Making).
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Conrad
>
>
>
>
> On 6/9/07 15:17, "Proctor, Paul" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Paul Taylor from Croydon College has asked me to post the
> following message.
>
> Paul Proctor - Marketing & Promotion
> Association for Photography in Higher Education.
> C/O Stockport College of FE & HE
> Wellington Road South,
> Stockport,
> SK1 3UQ.
>
> www.aphe.ac.uk
>
>
> I've just come from a timetabling meeting where I raised the point
> that this College insists on having 'Staff Learning Days' during
> which students are 'excluded' from the premises
>
> Personally I feel that not only anti-educational but disrupts and
> unnecessarily fragments the delivery of the HE timetable
>
> */Does such an arrangement occur in other Colleges and
> Universities and if the institution is both FE and HE does it
> affect all students, or specifically FE?
> /*
> *Secondly* our degree shows are being planned by the same
> 'committee' for the 3rd week of May 2008 - we feel that this is
> too early - but we are told that this ties in with the rest of the
> sector. We feel this is wrong and both staff and students benefit
> from visiting degree shows at other institutions, Truman Brewery
> etc - during a longer season - to the end of July.
>
> Could we as the Association collect dates for Photography/ Photo
> media shows 2008, and circulate via e-mail?
> Best wishes and hope to see you in the near future
> Paul Taylor
> Programme Leader
> BA[hons]Photomedia
>
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