Colleagues on the Staff Development mailbase list may be interested in the
forthcoming SEEC staff development workshop and may wish to draw it to the
attention of relevant staff within their institutions. Details below.
Apologies - as ever - for cross-posting
Mike Downes
SEEC Development Officer
SEEC: Southern England Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
Staff Development Workshop
Lifelong Learning: Further and Higher Education Collaboration and the Role
of Credit Accumulation and Transfer
Wednesday 24 February 1999
Britannia Meeting Rooms (NATFHE)
Britannia Street
King's Cross, London.
Background
The distinction between further and higher education has become
increasingly blurred over the last decade with an expansion of higher
education courses in FE colleges and of adult access to higher education.
The relationship between FE and HE is emphasised in the post-92
universities where 70 of students come through further education.
Many higher education institutions have actively encouraged local and
regional links between the sectors, some have been involved in mergers
while others have developed strategic alliances.
Lifelong learning implies as smooth a progression through the hierarchy of
academic awards as possible. Credit accumulation and transfer schemes
(CATS) provide a means through which students' learning can be recognised
and rewarded to encourage and enhance opportunities for such a progression.
Formal and informal networks of HE and FE institutions have been formed
some based on credit schemes and others on alternative arrangements for
mutual recognition of learning and qualifications.
The InCCA (Inter-Consortium Credit Agreement) Report, A Common Framework
for Learning, (September 1998) supports the recommendation of the Robertson
Report Choosing to Change (1994) that "all parties in FE and HE throughout
the UK should converge around the principles of a single unified framework"
(recommendation 29), a position also held by FEDA (Further Education
Development Agency), and proposes an "organic development drawing on the
experience in credit framework implementation currently being amassed……."
(6.10.3)
The Workshop
The workshop will provide an opportunity to consider developments in credit
policy and practice in FE and HE and the implications for closer
collaboration. There will be presentations by Professor Beverly Sand,
University of Derby, Chief Executive of the Derbyshire Regional Network; Dr
Ian Tunbridge, Head of Academic Partnerships and Liaison, University of
Plymouth; Tony Tait, FEDA Programme Leader (Credit Frameworks); Chris Wood,
Principal Manager, Qualifications Frameworks and Key Skills, QCA
(Qualifications and Curriculum Authority) and Mike Downes, SEEC Development
Officer, who was involved in the InCCA Project.
The workshop will be valuable to all colleagues interested in the
relationship between FE and HE, in the development of a single credit
framework that encompasses FE and HE, in widening participation and
encouraging lifelong learning.
The Programme
9.30 to 10.00 Registration and Coffee/tea
10.00 to 10.10 Welcome and Introductions. Mike Downes, SEEC Development
Officer
10.10 to 10.30 A Common Framework for Learning: InCCA and credit
relationships in further and higher education. Mike Downes
10.30 to 11.15 Unitisation, Credit and the Learning Age. Tony Tait
The presentation will describe FEDA's approach to a comprehensive credit
framework covering FE and HE, current national credit developments in
relation to qualifications and funding and raise key issues for the FE and
HE sectors.
11.15 to 11.30 Coffee/tea
11.30 to 12.15 The University of Plymouth HE/FE Partnership. Ian Tunbridge
The University of Plymouth has developed a long term HE/FE partnership over
the last 10 years. It now encompasses all the FE colleges in the SW
peninsular. The partnership received one of the first Queens Anniversary
prizes and has been comended for good practice at a number of external
quality audits.
12.15 to 13.00 The Derbyshire Regional Network: a regional strategy for
lifelong learning. Beverly Sand.
The presentation will consider the process of agreeing a regional strategy
for lifelong learning and raise some of the issues of policy and strategy
for the individual partners as well as for the consortium itself in
establishing a regional credit framework and system of credit accumulation
and transfer.
13.00 to 14.00 Lunch
14.00 to 14.30 QCA Consultation on flexibility for adult learners within
the National Qualifications Framework. Chris Wood
14.30 to 15.30 Working groups (Coffee/tea served)
15.30 to 16.00 Panel of presenters
16.00 Close
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: [log in to unmask]
Mike Downes
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Phone/Fax 0117 9628803
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