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Dear colleagues
Many thanks to Sue for prompting this discussion and gathering together such a useful collection of resources - we'll definitely be adding some links to our website.
This year, we've run an online version of our module for programme leaders. It's entirely open; we partly do this to facilitate participation from programme leaders in our partner institutions, but also to enable us to share ideas with others. A few people from other institutions participated in certain parts of it this year. We plan to run it again in the summer term 2016 and we wondered if anyone on the list would like to participate in the further development and sharing of materials? Whilst the procedural aspects of the role are likely to be very institution-specific, the strategic ones are much more general and I think colleagues really benefit from seeing how the larger questions are answered in different contexts.
This year's course is still up at https://programmeleadership.wordpress.com/ - if you click on the ‘topics’ tab, you can see what we covered in each of the six weeks of the programme this year. Whilst we offer this as an accredited 15 credit module to our staff, people can do all of the activities without doing the final assignment.
If you’re interested in working on this with us, please do let me know and we could set up an online meeting for early next term. I’m away for a couple of weeks after today but will reply as soon as I get back.
Best wishes
Rachel
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The html version I sent previously didn't look as I expected! Here is a plain text version which might be easier to read.
Thank you to everyone who responded to my request for information around support for programme leaders in your institutions.
Responses ranged from doing very little and wanting to develop the area to more comprehensive support mechanisms. I’ve extracted the key areas of support below to share with the list.
Shared online resources were all valuable and interesting in particular the HEA report Academic leadership: developing a framework for the professional development of programme leaders’ (September 2007) Johnston and Westwood
Summary document https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/johnstonv_and_westwoodj_academic_leadership_developing_a_framework_summary_3.pdf
Full report Academic leadership: developing a framework for the professional development of programme leaders’ http://www.hear.ac.uk/assets/was%20York%20-%20delete%20this%20soon/documents/johnston_final_report.pdf
Developing and Supporting Programme Leadership at Edinburgh Napier University (2010) McLeod http://staff.napier.ac.uk/services/hr/development/acprofdev/PL/Documents/Programme%20Leading%20Report_FINAL_16Dec2011.pdf
Programme Leadership from Edinburgh Napier University http://staff.napier.ac.uk/services/sas/student_development/Programme%20Leadership/Pages/ProgrammeLeadership.aspx
Other resources kindly shared included the following:
MMU
http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/academic_leadership/ http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/academic_leadership/leading_programmes.php http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/academic_leadership/prog_mgt_plans.php
https://programmeleadership.wordpress.com/
Plymouth https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/your-university/teaching-and-learning
SEDA PDF award Leading Programmes and Developing Leaders http://www.seda.ac.uk/leading-programmes
Nottingham Trent http://ntu.ac.uk/apps/events/43/home.aspx/event/171976/default/nottingham_trent_university_2015_course_leader_conference#details
Mitchell, R. (2014). "‘If there is a job description I don’t think I’ve read one’: a case study of programme leadership in a UK pre-1992 university." Journal of Further and Higher Education: 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2014.895302
Common resources included:
Programme Leaders Handbook
Lists of Programme Leader Responsibilities Annual calendar of key dates and activities Programme Leaders Forum, some including participation by senior management and/or Module Leaders Programme Leaders Conference Teaching and Learning Conference which includes a Programme Leaders emphasis Programme Leader Away-days Informal coffee sessions for Programme Leaders Accredited and non-accredited modules on existing MA programmes Coaching opportunities Online resource areas and/or signposts to other sources of support for Programme Leaders which might include the following:
• short case studies of the types of issues and challenges Programme Leaders need to be able to deal with
• focus on individual programme leaders' visions for their programmes
• how to work with institutional processes and requirements
quality processes, and preparation for programme review/approval
• roles and responsibilities
• mapping the CLs year
• induction and retention
• assessment
• evalution
• academic health.
Thank you all for your contributions. I hope you find this summary as useful as I have.
Regards
Sue