I've been reading the comments about the PT conference with sympathy. It may be worth mentioning that the Centre for Recording Achievement, which has been designated as an "Associate Centre" of the HEA with a brief to promote PDP and e-portfolio developments, has a strong interest in personal tutoring as one of the key mechanisms chosen by institutions to implement PDP. We are currently developing a website of materials to use in the training of personal tutors (some of you may remember I did a poster about this at the conference in Edinburgh).
As I'm on this list, I will use it to communicate if I can see ways in which the CRA could offer some support in this area, and I'd be interested in any ideas you may have.
Best wishes
Janet Strivens
Senior Associate Director, Centre for Recording Achievement
and
Centre for Lifelong Learning: Educational Development Division,
The University of Liverpool,
128 Mt Pleasant,
Liverpool L69 3GW
Tel: 0151 794 1167 (office)
07939 521554 (mobile)
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> From: A list to facilitate discussion between personal tutors
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rania Hafez
> Sent: 13 November 2007 15:13
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: Second International Conference on Personal Tutoring
> and Academic Advising
>
> Thanks for the explanation Paula. It is a rather disappointing turn of
> events.
>
> I think we all ought to lobby the HEA strongly. All evidence points to
> the
> fact that retention and achievement for HE students are maximised by an
> effective tutorial provision, especially when it comes to Widening
> Participation.
>
> Is there possibly any funding available from Universities UK? Or HEFCE
> under
> the WP agenda?
>
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> From: A list to facilitate discussion between personal tutors on behalf
> of
> Paula Hixenbaugh
> Sent: Tue 13/11/2007 1:28 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: Second International Conference on Personal Tutoring
> and
> Academic Advising
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I can understand the concern about travelling to the USA. Perhaps a
> little
> background would help shed a little light on the current situation.
> Five
> years ago, a few of us at the University of Westminster who were
> concerned
> about the importance of personal tutoring thought it would be useful to
> get
> together people from across the sector to share ideas. We approached
> the HEA
> with this idea and they agreed to support the first conference by admin
> support, advertising, bookings etc. We thought there would be a small
> group
> interested in attending. In the event, we had over 130 and had to turn
> some
> away.HEA continued to support personal tutoring. For our second
> conference,
> we invited NACADA to participate and to provide a keynote speaker.
> This led
> to discussions about holding joint conferences. All concerned thought
> this
> would be an excellent idea in order to learn from each other. This was
> realised last year with the first international conference (the
> previous two
> had been national conferences). All of the people I have talked to
> about the
> Edinburgh conference agree that it was a great success. It is
> therefore
> surprising that the HEA decided that personal tutoring was NOT one of
> the
> areas that they were going to support. What this means is that this
> year we
> have no official backing from HEA for the conference - indeed if it
> were
> taking place in this country there would be NO conference at all!
> Individuals within the HEA have been excellent in providing some
> advertising
> etc to help participation at the Pittsburgh conference.
>
> I think we have clear evidence that personal tutoring is an important
> topic
> within higher education. Although an excellent idea to participate with
> FETN,
> I do think that many of the issues are different in HE. I feel very
> strongly
> that we should have a national annual event - this does not need to
> take the
> place of an international event. If others feel the same way, I would
> urge
> you to contact the HEA and request that they support personal tutoring
> events
> in next year's budget. Meanwhile our association with NACADA means
> that we
> can have a conference this year. For those of you able to attend, I
> look
> forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh.
>
> Best wishes,
> Professor Paula Hixenbaugh
> University of Westminster
>
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>
> From: A list to facilitate discussion between personal tutors
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Daphne Hampton
> Sent: 13 November 2007 13:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: Second International Conference on Personal Tutoring
> and
> Academic Advising
>
>
> Hi everyone,
> I feel it can only be useful to extend this to HE to increase the range
> of
> opportunities for colleagues to share ideas and good practice on
> personal
> academic tutoring.
> Daphne.
>
> Sally Wootton wrote:
>
> I agree that there needs to be a UK based network and
> opportunities
> to share and develop good practice in personal tutoring, particularly
> as many
> in the FE and HE sectors are unable to fund attendance at such
> conferences
> abroad.
>
> It may be of interest to know that the Further Education Tutorial
> Network (FETN) held their first annual conference last year which was
> very
> successful and the second conference is being held next week, Tuesday
> 20th
> Nov, at the Sheffield Hilton. The conference is concerned with many
> generic
> aspects of tutoring useful to both FE and HE institutions alike.
>
> I would welcome your views on whether you feel it advantageous to
> build on the work of FETN to incorporate Higher Education. Furthermore,
> if
> colleagues would like information regarding the conference next week
> please
> feel free to get in touch.
>
> Sally
> Dr Sally WoottonTutorial ManagerWakefield College Tel: 01924
> 789756
>
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> From: A list to facilitate discussion between personal tutors
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Huyton, Jan
> Sent: 12 November 2007 18:42
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: Second International Conference on Personal
> Tutoring
> and Academic Advising
>
> I think we need to have some sort of UK-based conference to
> enable
> networking to take place for those unable or unwilling to travel to the
> USA.
>
> How can we ensure this happens via the HEA? (I'm afraid I am a
> bit
> green on such matters).
>
> Do others feel the same?
>
> Jan
>
>
> Jan Huyton
>
> CardiffSchool of Education
>
> UWIC
>
> Cyncoed Campus
>
> Cardiff
>
> CF23 6XD
>
> Tel: 029 2041 6499
>
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> From: A list to facilitate discussion between personal tutors
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Hubert
>
> Sent: 12 November 2007 18:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: Second International Conference on Personal
> Tutoring
> and Academic Advising
>
> It seems the HEA's work on Personal Tutoring has left the
> country!
> Last (calendar) year my colleague and I travelled to York for the
> conference
> and found it fruitful. Last (academic) year it was held in Edinburgh in
> conjunction with NACADA. As someone whose job-share role is to do this
> kind
> of work and nothing else, I pointed out the difficulty involved in
> having to
> travel approx 475 miles and therefore take an extra day each end of the
> conference for people low down the food chain like us. This academic
> year it
> seems from Helen's posting the option is to travel to Pittsburgh for a
> 3-day
> event, and it is not apparent from the HEA personal tutoring web-page
> that it
> is currently planning anything else!
>
> The purpose for the conferences apparently was to "allow
> academics
> and others to discuss key points such as:
>
> what personal tutors are and what they do
>
> what makes them effective and how they work
> their relationship to the University and student services more
> generally
> the history of personal tutoring in the UK."
>
> I guess there was always a tension between role support and the
> academicisation of the conferences. Arguably publication is needed for
> status
> reasons in HE. However even if I wanted to fly to another continent or
> submit
> myself to US security clearance, which I don't, I suspect the best I
> could
> hope for if I asked to go to this conference (3 days plus time to
> travel
> between continents plus travel costs plus hotel costs plus conference
> fee
> [not specified]) would be laughter.
>
> We certainly need some training and support for people carrying
> out
> this work as a main or freestanding role - I have a new colleague
> starting
> out next week. If it it exists I would like to know what and where it
> is.
> This list is barely active and the conference seems to be for something
> else.
> Please can someone tell me what I'm missing?!
>
> Paul
>
> Dr Paul Hubert
>
> Student Advisor (job-share)
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> University of Kent
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