Our post grads who teach are required to take the 3 day 'In at the deep
end' programme and this is also available to fractional and sessional
staff without a fee being charged to them or their faculties. I have
asked that our booklet accompanying the 3 day programme, also called 'In
at the deep end' by Phil Race is given to all sessional staff even if
they don't take the programme. Fractional staff new to HE teaching who
are 50% or more must do the PGCHE as must all FT staff new to HE
teaching. Learning resources staff can also do the 3 day programmes if
they wish and can do the PGCHE by negotiation if their
faculties/services can pay the fee. We run our 3 day programme 3 times a
year, staffed substantially by our NTFS award holders
Best wishes
Sally
Sally Brown, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Leeds Metropolitan University
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Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of P Hartley
Sent: 03 February 2010 09:56
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Subject: Re: PGCerts and funding - summary of responses.
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
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Sent: 03 February 2010 08:32
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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
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