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Hi Liz I realise you are a NATFHE officer but seeing as you are on a joint project with the AUT... Does this mean that the AUT in particular are no longer 'lukewarm' on the ILT? Salford AUT recently emailed every academic staff member within the University to hold fire on joining ILT until clear guidance was forthcoming from national AUT officers. thanks Bernard On 18 Oct 2000, at 14:59, Liz Allen wrote: > > Hello all - > > ILT membership/staff development for part time lecturers > > I work on Higher Education policy issues for NATFHE nationally. I am > also project worker for a joint project between NATFHE, AUT, the ILT, > UCoSDA/THETO and the universities of Brighton and Sussex, and University > College Chichester. > > It is a Union Learning Fund one year research project looking at part > time lecturers in the three institutions, their characteristics/work > patterns, access to training and staff development in HE teaching and > learning support, and their (likely) attitudes to ILT membership. In > this context we identify "part time lecturers" as those with hourly > paid, or less than .5 contracts. (We are not tackling issues around > learning support staff who do some teaching - constraints of scope and > time). Amongst other things, we hope to help identify what is needed to > support part timers who might be interested in achieving and sustaining > ILT membership. > > As part of the project I want to find out as much as possible about > practice across the sector in relation to staff development, induction, > teaching and learning support for part timers. I am aware of some of > the FDTL projects, and have seen the SHEFC/UCOSDA publication. If > anyone has any information/experience in this area I would be very > interested to hear from you. Maybe you have institutional/departmental > experience. Maybe you are a part timer! Also if anyone wants further > info. about our project please let me know. > > Liz Allen > Universities Department, NATFHE > > [log in to unmask] > > Bernard Lisewski Staff and Curriculum Development Education Development Unit Statham Building Statham Street University of Salford Salford Greater Manchester M5 4WT 0161-295-2573 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%