Dear John,
Thanks for this – it is very
useful. I would suggest, however, that a motivator of “no teaching”
might just undermine the overall philosophy of the PG Cert!
Yours
Andrew
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Sent: 09 March 2009 16:52
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Subject: time release for PG Cert
Hi folks,
You might remember my request for information on time release
policy at your institution to undertake a PG
Cert. Many thanks to those who
took the time to respond.
I was asked by a number of respondents to circulate the
results to the list. So here they are, suitably anonymised but grouped by
new and old universities as I thought they may have differing issues.
What the responses tell me is that our policy of 20 per cent
teaching release is reasonably in line with many comparable institutions
[very few give no incentive or support to engage in the
award] but that lots of other institutions have similar difficulties policing such
a policy across departments. There
are still a significant number of institutions who do not require completion of
a PG Cert but do require part of it to be
completed and encourage the rest.
There are also a number of more creative motivators being tried elsewhere… if they were
combined, new staff would be allowed no teaching, a laptop computer, their
department would get a thousand pounds and we could all have an increment, a
letter of commendation and
strawberries and cream at the end!
cheers
John
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Dr John Peters
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John
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Sent: 23 February 2009 17:10
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Subject: Time release or
recognition for staff engagement in a PG Cert
Hi folks,
I’ve been asked to collect some quick information on policies
that operate at other institutions with regard
to new staff engagement with the PG Cert. Here we currently have a probationary
policy that requires engagement for those with less than 3 years teaching
experience but, in return, promises release from 20 per cent of their teaching
load in their first year.
Do you give new academic staff any remission in teaching load
in their first year to help them settle in or in return for engagement in the
PG Cert? Or do you offer any
reward for completion of the PG Cert? Are
there other extrinsic motivators out there?!
John
Dr John Peters