1. Teaching and Learning Forum 17 May 2016 Pauline Kneale Pro-Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning

2. Agenda
Post QAA HER, HEA SWS Action Plan Action Planning NTF and Project round HEAR Co Curricula – Graduate Compass Prevent White / Green paper TEF

3. Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education Higher Education Review

4. Timescale for QAA HE Review
-52 weeks Date for visit announced
-26 Review team membership announced November
-16 Preparatory meeting January
-12 SED Document upload; analysis begins Feb
-9 Request for additional evidence March
-6 Provider uploads additional evidence asap
-4 First team meeting early April
0 Review visit w/c 9 May
+2 Key findings letter late May
+6 Draft report late June
+9 Provider comments on draft report late July
+12 Report published September
+22 Provider publishes action plan October

5. Agenda
Post QAA HER, HEA SWS Action Plan NTF and Project HEAR Co Curricula – Graduate Compass Prevent White / Green paper TEF

6. Higher Education Achievement Report
Plymouth University HEAR Website
Personal Tutor Guidance
Higher Education Academy Info

7. White Green Paper Implications of the Teaching Excellence Framework

8. TEF: Context Simplifying the higher education architecture
Reducing complexity and bureaucracy in research
The higher education sector
Simplifying the higher education architecture
Teaching Excellence, Quality and Social Mobility

9. TEF – What it is hoping to achieve
Provide an excellent (measurable) teaching experience
Ensure teaching has equal status with research - staff promotion
Provide students with the information they need to judge teaching quality
Social mobility - WP, better retention and progression to further study or a graduate job
Move to clearer outcome-focused criteria and metrics.

10. STUDENTS AS PARTICIPANTS
Research-tutored
Curriculum emphasises learning focused on students writing and discussing essays and papers
Research-based
curriculum emphasises students undertaking inquiry-based learning
Research-led
Curriculum is structured around teaching current subject content
Research-oriented
Curriculum emphasises teaching processes of knowledge construction in the subject
STUDENT-FOCUSED
STUDENTS AS PARTICIPANTS
EMPHASIS ON RESEARCH CONTENT
EMPHASIS ON RESEARCH PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS
TEACHER-FOCUSED
STUDENTS AS AUDIENCE
Research - Scholarship Informed Teaching
Griffiths, 2004;
Healey and Jenkins 2006
Excited students tackling ‘real’ research and practice problems in partnership with academic staff

11. Plymouth Graduates: enterprising and creative global citizens
Self-efficacy
Self-esteem
Self-confidence
Reflection and Evaluation
Career Development Learning
Experience (Work and Life)
Degree subject
Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
Generic Skills
Emotional Intelligence
Threshold Concepts
Signature Pedagogies
Ethical Approaches
Critical Thinking
Intercultural Awareness
Enterprise
Sustainability Literacy
Digital Literacy
After Dacre Pool and Sewell 2007