What a shame the new Higher Education Academy senior fellowship
programme is not considering giving SEDA Fellows automatic entry to
this new category. I am currently completing my application for this
and would encourage as many as possible from the SEDA network to do the
same.
Best wishes
Sally
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From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Liz BEATY [7062]
Sent: 24 August 2007 08:49
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Subject: Re: Like hens' teeth?
One of the ways professionals have found to regulate and gain respect
for their skills is through accreditation. Are we making enough of the
professional standards of the SEDA fellowship - not as a restrictive
practice but as a way of developing ourselves, raising capacity and
continuously developing the expertise within our area of work? Do we do
enough to write up our successes and to demonstrate effectiveness
through scholarship? Not just navel gazing and reflection but offering
scholarly debates and analysis? Is SEDA networked effectively into
leadership cultures in HE. Do we as a community support our own
criticality? SEDA certainly does a lot of this - but ---
One piece of advice someone once gave me in early career is that to be
accepted as having expertise one must act as if one has it and expects
it to be valued. -
We can complain all we like within our own community but in the end we
have to act in the world outside.
Another thought - although there are jobs like this advertised (and + I
suppose filled) there are jobs at the other end of the scale which are
increasingly difficult to fill - this implies a gap in the middle - what
can we do as a community to develop people towards the higher end jobs?
All the best
Liz
Dr Liz Beaty,
Director (Learning and Teaching)
HEFCE
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Sent: Fri Aug 24 00:21:20 2007
Subject: Re: Like hens' teeth?
Dear Phil and fellow lurkers,
Thanks for bringing this one to my attention.
I checked with a person I know, a person in fact we all know.
Clarke Kent tells me he is happy at the daily planet, and is not
currently considering a change of career. So we may have to look
elsewhere.
However, isn't the issue Phil raises symptomatic of the higher education
culture more broadly? Leadership is an expectation. The capacity to
move and engage people in areas for which they feel poorly prepared and
fearful, well that's a given.
It seems to me that the question becomes - how do we move people,
administrators and administrations towards a recognition of the scope
and bounds of the challenge? Then, in a managerial culture, how do we
give people the latitude necessary to truly innovate in the leadership
and strategic roles - that Clarke Kent politely declined?
Warmest regards
Noel
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Faculty of Business
University of Tasmania
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