Hi All

Does the HEA award 'teaching qualifications'?

Peter
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Dear All

Just to let you know that the Higher Education Information Bill has been published and will get its second reading on Friday. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0021/150021.pdf

It’s a Private Member’s Bill from Heidi Allen, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, which will require English universities to make available to prospective and current students more information about what they get for their tuition fees, ie what fees are charged, what the money is spent on, what the student gets for their money etc.

UUK did some work on this agenda in 2010: UUK with the ‘Making It Count’ publication and video http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/highereducation/Pages/MakingItCount.aspx#.ViY8OJ1wb-Y  and it and the Russell Group may have more recent publications.  However, the information set required by this Bill to be published to prospective/current students goes way beyond a ‘student experience’ narrative and is very detailed.

Some of the key data which English HEIs would be required to publish are:

1“Institutional information” referred to in section 1(2) of this Act is the following information in relation to all full-time or part-time courses of higher education that are intended to be provided by the institution in the 12 months following the reference date—

(a) the proportion of teaching staff who deliver

(a) the proportion of teaching staff who deliver undergraduate courses who have a teaching qualification awarded by the Higher Education Academy or equivalent;
(b) the amount the institution spends per undergraduate student per year on academic services (such as library or information technology services) and student services (such as careers advice or sporting facilities);

(c) the proportion of additional fee income the institution spends on widening access to higher education for undergraduate students;

(d) the average annual cost of renting accommodation owned by the institution and the number of accommodation units to which undergraduate students can reasonably expect to have access;

(e) the average annual cost of private rental accommodation in the area in which the institution is situated; and
(f) the number of complaints made in the year prior to the reference date by or on behalf of undergraduate students, prospective undergraduate students or former undergraduate students and the proportion of those students who were satisfied with the way the institution handled the complaint.
2 “Course information” referred to in section 1(2) of this Act is the following information in relation to each full-time or part-time course of higher education that is intended to be provided by the institution in the 12 months following the reference date—

(a) the proportion of students who indicated as part of the National Student Survey that—
(i) feedback provided as part of the course was prompt;
(ii) feedback provided as part of the course helped them clarify things that they did not understand;

(b) the proportion of students who began the course two years prior to the reference date who continued to participate in the same course, or another course at the same institution, in their second year;

(c) the proportion of students who began the course two years prior to the reference date who continued to participate in higher education at another institution in their second year;
(d) the destination of graduates who completed the course in the year prior to the reference date, measured at the point six months after completion, including the proportion who were—
(i) employed;
(ii) employed in a graduate level job;
(iii) in further study; and
(iv) unemployed;

(e) average course fees (excluding fee waivers) per student per year;

(f) average additional costs (other than course fees) per student per year;

(g) the proportion of students who attended a work placement during the course in the year prior to the reference date;

(h) the number of students that received a fee waiver or other award (in cash or kind) in the year prior to the reference date, the average amount of that award, and the average household income of the students who received an award;

(i) details of professional, statutory and regulatory bodies that recognise the course, including details of the type of recognition;

(j) the average salary, as at December in the year prior to the reference date, of students who completed the course in or around July—
(i) one year prior to the reference date;
(ii) four years prior to the reference date; and
(iii) eight years prior to the reference date;

(k) the number of hours of teaching on the course that are delivered to small, medium and large groups of students respectively, and the number of hours of private study time expected each week;

(l) the proportion of the assessment for the course that is comprised of—
(i) coursework;
(ii) written examinations;
(iii) other methods of assessment;

(m) the proportion of teaching on the course that is provided by an academic member of staff; and

(n) UCAS tariff scores for students studying the course one year prior to the reference date.

The progress of the Bill can be followed at http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/highereducationinformation.html

Best wishes

Ray
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Professor Ray Land MA MSc PhD FRSA PFHEA
Director, Centre for Academic Practice (CAP)
Professor of Higher Education
School of Education
Durham University
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Durham DH1 1TA
United Kingdom
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