Hi,
An interesting point here, certainly for course which seek to develop
'practitioners' then an assessed work placement is a valuable component.
It is a core aspect of training in other professions so why not ours?
Perhaps something we can be looking at as a group/association is how to
support the development of relationships with community/service
providers to provide placements. Maybe guidelines or examples of best
practice. Where courses currently have placements maybe we can undertake
some research to identify how this is experienced by the service
providers? Our first joint venture with the SSA?
On a separate note I have started to point out to service providers and
others who raise the issue of being 'too theoretical' that (certainly at
Brighton) we have a huge range of professional courses e.g. Social work,
Nursing and midwifery, counselling, a medical school (with Sussex Uni),
a School of Management, a School of Computing, Pharmacy, Wine studies
etc etc... in fact if they wish to draw the (false) distinction between
'theoretical' and 'Practical' it is we who deliver a far wider range of
practical courses than any of our FE colleagues. That is another one of
our strengths. Perhaps we need to start being more proactive and
integrating this into our presentation/narrative at the Skills
Consortium (and elsewhere)"HE: the home of vocational education".
Best wishes
Dr. Daren D Britt
(01273) 643548
Senior Lecturer in Substance Misuse
School of Applied Social Science
University of Brighton
Falmer
Brighton. BN1 9PH
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I'll include assessed teaching programmes as a curriculum criterion.
Non-assessed teaching programmes were, understandably, a key complaint
from service providers - where QA cannot be determined. Andy
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I think Jim has a good point here. Perhaps we should add something
about assessed work placement to address possible perceptions that we
are "too theoretical"? Or would that run into the problem that not all
courses have assessed work placements?
Are we up against the limits of what can be considered "Core" for all HE
courses on this issue?
Regards,
Tony Priest
Course Director, Foundation Degree in Drug and Alcohol Counselling
University of Leicester
01604-736231
Course Website: www.le.ac.uk/lifelonglearning/counselling/courses
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I do fear that the NTA and commissioners do not really understand the
nature of HE. The recent debate about graduate nurses (a fact since
1968) may be repeated regarding 'graduate' drug workers. Some explicit
HE learning outcomes related to critical analysls, synthesis and relvant
transferable skills in information handling would not go amiss.
Jim Jones
(retired from HE but now immersed in practice in the field)
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