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Our postgraduates who teach normally take our teaching toolkit 20 credit module. Costs are normally covered by the institution as the Toolkit is free to staff or those supporting teaching and learning and employed at the university. Ruth Ruth Pilkington 01772 893106 University of Central Lancashire Livesey House 211 Preston PR1 2HE Any representations, views and/or opinions in this e-mail are those of the sender, and not necessarily of the University. The University's e-mail facility is intended for educational purposes, and the University accepts no liability for, and shall not be bound by, the contents of any e-mail sent from its network, which do not relate to those purposes or other business of the University. This e-mail is confidential to and for the sole use of the addressee(s). If you should not have received it, please notify the sender and permanently delete it: you may not print, copy, disclose, distribute or rely on it, or any part of it. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error free and the University does not accept liability for any errors in or amendements to the contents of this message, which arise in consequence of its transmission by e-mail. >>> P Hartley <[log in to unmask]> 03/02/2010 09:55 >>> From this year, our postgrads who teach are obliged to take a special version of the first module of our PGCert. The fees are waived so it does not cost them or department. The aim is to roll this out to part-time VLs as well and a few have already joined. The issue of who pays for the hours they spend on the course is still being debated and this policy was agreed in warmer economic conditions. We are also developing a version of this module for partner institutions so this could be a rich area for further discussion and sharing expertise Peter Peter Hartley Professor of Education Development Room 01.60 J B Priestley Building University of Bradford BD7 1DP phone 01274 233293 -----Original Message----- From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julie Regan Sent: 03 February 2010 08:32 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: PGCerts and funding - summary of responses. Dear Aileen, Many thanks for this information, it is good to see so much consistency across the responses. I would be interested to know from colleagues how their institutions view 'Visiting Lecturers' in relation to the PG Cert. We have a number of VLs who make a significant contribution to teaching in our institution. However, they must either be self funding or the Faculty must pay for them to attend. This also includes our PhD students who are teaching and/or supporting learning, many of who wish to do at least the first module of the PG Cert, which leads to Associate status of the HEA. Regards Julie Julie-Anne Regan Academic Development Advisor PL for the MA learning and Teaching in HE >>> Aileen Morris <[log in to unmask]> 02/02/2010 17:15 >>> Dear Colleagues Some time ago, I asked if you would respond to a brief questionnaire around PGCerts HE, their funding and recruitment to them. I attach the results here - both verbatim responses and a summary below - rather late, I know, and apologies for this. David Gosling's very recent survey in the area of teacher development and institutional requirements has been very useful in getting the 'bigger picture' so this work of his and the fact that time has marched on since my questionnaire (March 2009) renders the results here a bit superfluous. Nonetheless, I would like to share them - particularly as I said I would! I asked for information regarding the following: 1 Please state whether participation in professional development around teaching and learning is a requirement in your institution and whether this is a whole programme (PGCert) requirement or partial fulfilment. 2 Is there a PGCert HE fee? 3 Who pays? 4 Does this apply to all staff regardless of contracts/tenure? 5 Is there a fee for individual units? 6 Who pays? 7 Are you being asked to recruit externally to the PGCert, individual units or other related awards such as those in mentoring and coaching. Please give details. Brief summary of results: *14 HEIs from the across the UK responded - eight were post 1992/six were pre-1992. *12 HEIs have a requirement (either full PGCE or part) *Two HEIs have no requirement as such but have a policy which 'strongly encourages/ expects' participation in such CPD *The majority of these programmes (and their constituent modules) are funded centrally or have fees waived (12) *Two HEIs require faculties to pay for staff who undertake such programmes/modules *Happily, all HEIs welcome colleagues to their courses irrespective of contract and tenure - main criteria being that they are teaching/supporting students on university-validated programmes and are being paid by the university to do so. *Although not specifically asked about this, some HEIs have commented that they have external HE teaching colleagues on their programmes and these are self-funding. *In response to the question about whether they were expected to recruit externally to their PGCerts and modules, six HEIs responded to say that they were not expected to do so. *Three HEIs stated that they were expected to recruit externally although some of this was linked to associate/partner college staff *Three HEIs said that they were being asked to recruit externally; one of these had developed their PGCert for delivery as blended and distance learning; another was looking to recruit externally as it moved to a full Masters programme. I attach the full set of verbatim responses and hope that this is of some use - even at this late stage. Thanks to all who responded. Kind regards Aileen <<PGCE HE info_requirement_fees_recrtmnt Jan 2010.doc>> Aileen Morris SL/Programme Leader PGCE/PGDE Higher Education Teaching and Learning Centre for Educational Research and Development University of Lincoln Brayford Pool Lincoln LN6 7TS T: 01522 837359 ***********************************************************************