SEEC Southern England Consortium for Credit Accumulation and
Transfer
Staff Development Programme
Learning that Works: Work Based Learning and Learning
Contracts
Tuesday 11 May 1999
London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre,
356 Holloway Road,
London, N7 6PA
Background
The Dearing Report recommended that higher education
institutions should
create opportunities to enable students to become familiar with the
world
of work. The Report recognised that "many institutions devote a
great
deal of effort to identifying (work experience) opportunities,
developing
relationships with companies and collaborating with them to ensure
that the
experience is rewarding for both the employer and the student.
From
discussions with students and staff, we have no doubt of the value
of such
experience. This is particularly so when the work is treated as a
structured part of a programme, and its progress is moderated by
both the
employer and the institution." NCIHE, Chapter 9.
The Workshop
The workshop will provide an opportunity to consider issues of
policy and
practice of work based learning through the discussion of
contributions
from colleagues with considerable experience of work based
learning at
undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Frank Lyons, Director of the Partnership Programme, University of
Portsmouth will map out new directions in work related learning
that are
being opened up in the post-Dearing curriculum.
Gordon Weller, Head of Work Based Learning, Work Based
Learning Unit,
University of Luton will provide a case-study of the role of the
General
Work Based Learning Module in developing students' work related
transferable skills.
Mike Laycock, Director of the MA/MSc by Work Based Learning,
University of
East London, and a member of the University's Educational
Development
Services, will consider issues of academic standards raised
through the
recently developed postgraduate work based learning programme.
Norman Jackson, is a member of the QAAHE Development
Directorate with
responsibility for developing policy on programme specifications and
progress files. The development work has involved working with
three
universities to develop a programme specification for work based
learning.
Norman will cover two overlapping themes. How the QAA policy
framework
might accommodate work based learning and how the University
for Industry
might approach the quality assurance and the management of work
based
learning.
The workshop will be of interest to all who are involved in work
based
learning, have a responsibility for curriculum planning or quality
assurance in HEIs.
The Programme
9.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome and Introduction. Mike Downes,
SEEC Development Officer
10.05 Work Related Learning: Mapping the Post-Dearing
Curriculum, Frank
Lyons, Director of the Partnership Programme, University of
Portsmouth.
10.50 Coffee/Tea
11.05 Negotiated Work-based Learning and Work-related
Learning
Developments at the University of Luton, Gordon Weller, Head of
Work Based
Learning, University of Luton.
11.50 Academic Standards and Work Based Learning.
Mike Laycock, Director
of the MA/MSc by Work based Learning, University of East London
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Quality Assurance and Work Based Learning:
Growing National Policy
from Best Practice in Universities, Norman Jackson, Development
Directorate, QAAHE
2.15 Working groups
3.30 Panel of the Presenters
4.00 Close
All participants will receive a copy of the special Work Based
Learning
edition of the University of Luton's Local Economy Quarterly,
Volume 5,
Issue 4, December 1998.
Workshop fee:
SEEC members £40
Non members £90
For further information and a booking form contact:
Jervine Young
SEEC Administrator
The SEEC Office
c/o The University of East London
Romford Road
London E15 4LZ
Tel: 0181 849 3638 Fax: 0181 849 3492
e-mail:
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Mike Downes
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Phone/Fax 0117 9628803
Dr David Gosling,
Head of Educational Development Services,
University of East London,
Longbridge Road,
Dagenham, Essex, RM8 2AS
Direct line: 0181 849 3436
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