**APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING**
Dear Colleagues
I am delighted to send you information about the first of a series of
professional development seminars to be offered by SEEC on the theme of
academic credit and its practical implementation. Other seminars for the
academic year 2010-2011 are in the process of being planned, and information
will be sent out shortly. If appropriate please circulate details amongst
colleagues within your organisations.
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“An introduction to credit and credit frameworks”
Date: June 2nd 2011 Time: 10:30 am –
3:00 pm
Venue: Clore Seminar Room, Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University,
Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/about/buildings/womens-library.cfm
Nearest stations: Aldgate (Metropolitan and Circle Lines)
Aldgate East (District and Hammersmith and City
Lines
Target audience
This seminar is designed for staff working in HE, FE, Awarding
Organisations, Sector Skills Councils, and Professional Associations who are
new or relatively new to credit, credit frameworks and their uses.
Overview
The use of credit to define learning has become widespread with a wealth of
reference points including the FHEQ, Dublin descriptors, the QCF, SEEC level
descriptors. This session is designed to introduce credit and its uses in
HE settings.
Intended outcomes
Participants will gain an understanding of:
· Credit and its definition
· UK and European frameworks for credit
· The role of the SEEC descriptors
· The uses of credit
· Institutional policies and their variations
· Topical issues in credit and its use
Facilitator(s) and brief biographical details:
Mark Atlay is Director of Teaching and Learning at the University of
Bedfordshire and is the current Chair of SEEC. He has twenty years
experience of the use of credit and credit frameworks in HE.
Angela Joyce is the Senior Manager for Policy and Strategy at the
Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA). She has worked in
education all her working life, initially as a teacher and teacher educator,
then for the Open College Network in Kent and Medway and the National Open
College Network, moving to the Sector Skills Council, Lifelong Learning UK,
in 2005, where she led on the development of the new professional standards
and credit based qualifications for teachers in the FE sector in England.
Cost
SEEC Members/Member organisations £60.00
Non-members £95.00
To book a place for this event, please visit the SEEC website:
http://www.seec.org.uk/events/introduction-credit-and-credit-frameworks
regards
Alison
Alison Street
SEEC Administrator
'SEEC - Recognising Learning Through Credit!'
SEEC
PO Box 1241
Enfield
Middlesex
EN1 9UB
Telephone/Fax 020 8617 0568
www.seec.org.uk
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