Raising pupils’ achievements in India by bringing teachers back into the classroom
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…tol as well as enriching my student life in the UK.” Growing Support, a not-for-profit community interest company (CIC) that enables the elderly to get involved with gardening, received several volunteer students. “Having students involved in our project has been great because they bring a real diversity to what we do,” says Ruth Baker, who has worked with the volunteers. “We work with older people and so having young volunteers is just fantastic…
…his is not only a problem for students who are already working and want to complete their degrees as quickly as possible but also for those who come to the college for bridging provision, to prepare them for a full degree, and who would rather use the holidays to catch up with the rest of their cohort than permanently lag behind. The Higher Education and Research Bill provides an opportunity – which may not come again soon – to consider greater fu…
…ck Healey and Alan Jenkins for the Higher Education Academy (HEA): Research-led teaching; Research-oriented teaching; Research-tutored teaching; and Research-based learning. Such linking of curriculum with research and scholarship has been identified as significant within the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and ensures that the scheme impacts on the wider student community and curriculum. As well as providing great experiences for the particip…
…undergraduates under supervision from clinicians. It also includes a broad-ranging community engagement programme that seeks to address some of the major health inequalities in Devon and Cornwall. This is the first time that a clinical education entity has been housed in a social enterprise in the UK, and has enabled the University to more closely align its community outreach work with governance. Based across four Dental Education Facilities in…
…er, a barrier to the use of this therapy is in encouraging clinicians to become confident and competent in using this approach. The company set up a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the University of South Wales to develop a bespoke, online academy of wound management called the Larval Academy. The content and platform were designed to meet the learner’s needs in each market and can be adapted for medical legislation in different countries. Thr…
…e customer base and reduces the risk of group think. We need to form a long-term commitment, not just to recruit a diverse pool of employees, but to help them get to the top. For example, at Deloitte we are currently working really hard to increase the female representation at the top of our organisation and to recruit and retain a wider pool of talent from a wider range of schools, colleges and universities. We must also be mindful that millennia…
…an additional 60,000 entrants into higher education from 2015-16. From 2011-12 to 2014-15 the total Student Loan Council funding for students at alternative providers is projected to increase nine-fold. The report, ‘How do we ensure quality in an expanding higher education system’, considers what kind of quality assurance measures would be fit for purpose in a more complex new world of expanding higher education. It states that while the current s…
…esent worry about how far regulation, especially if it were of the ‘jumping-through-hoops’ variety, could smother it. But equally, regulation – applied equitably, if not identically, across the whole sector – is vital to avoid the growth, especially the rapid growth, of poor quality provision. Our report sets out nine priorities for the future of the quality assurance system. These are grounded in a discussion of the important principles, which we…
…versities but they are most likely to be studying on highly selective, high-grade courses, among a peer group of high-grade students and achieving some of the best employment outcomes in the country. To suggest otherwise, as language like the ‘missing 3000’ suggests, is doing highly qualified students a great disservice. For example, Bournemouth University’s Computer Visualisation and Animation BA is the top course of its kind in the country, it h…