Gaining HEA Accreditation Bradford College, March 2014.

Gaining HEA Accreditation

Bradford College, March 2014

Our Context – key drivers

• Having a professional development framework

• Leadership support for staff to gain professional recognition

• Improving staff motivation, recruitment and retention • Benchmarking of quality possible across institutions

• Supporting our application for TDAP• Demonstrating scholarly activity

• Improving teaching

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•Accreditation applies to the outcome of the process whereby such a programme or scheme is accredited by the HEA as meeting the requirements of the UKPSF.

Accreditation

• It entitles successful participants to be ‘recognised’ as Associate Fellows, Fellows, Senior Fellows or Principal Fellows of the HEA.

• The term always applies to a programme or scheme to develop academic staff and never to an individual or group of individuals.

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aligned with Associate Fellow for those with a limited teaching portfolio/responsibility

aligned with Fellow increasingly recognised as career entry grade

aligned with Senior Fellow used to articulate expertise, excellence and impact

aligned with Principal Fellow used to articulate expertise, excellence and impact

UKPSF Descriptors

D1

D2

D3

D4

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1. The provision is fully aligned with the UKPSF

Criteria

2. Participants fully engage with the UKPSF and evidence this engagement

3. Judgments made on this evidence are robust and sound

4. Evidence of institutional commitment to embedding the UKPSF as a vehicle for the on-going professional development of all staff who teach and support learning

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• The centrality of the UKPSF to the provision is evident

• The routes through the provision and the relationships between them are identified

• The opportunities for participants to engage with the UKPSF are clearly identified

• Progression opportunities and APL mechanisms are clearly described

Criterion 1 – Alignment

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Taught route Experiential route

Taught modules with links to UKPSF assessment in the marking criteria

PG Dip awarded with evidence to achieve fellowship built up over qualification so academic sessions and assessment have

dual purpose

PG Dip

Awareness and understanding of UKPSF across both routes

Qualified teacherCompletion of

e-portfolio

Submission of evidence to College panel

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Judgement panels, consisting of HEA fellows who have not been

involved in supporting any individual submission.

Set up and monitored through staff development.

Application to HEA

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• How is it encouraged/expected?

• How is it evidenced?

• How are participants supported?

Criterion 2 – Participant engagement

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• Are they transparent, robust and consistent?

• Are they made against the UKPSF ?

• How are they quality assured ?

• What support and training is provided for those making judgments?

• Are arrangements for assessment of APL clear?

Criterion 3 – Judgments

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• Are there are clear institutional strategies to embed the UKPSF?

• Is the institutional context for the provision clear?

• Is there a clear rationale for the provision ?

• Is the institutional infrastructure managing and supporting the provision described effectively?

• Is the centrality of the UKPSF apparent in all routes to recognition?

Criteria 4 – Institutional commitment

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Work on submission so as to be achieved by April 2014

Approval from HEA of submission by end of April 2014

Possible pilot with a few staff deemed able to achieve level D1, D2 or D3

Launch day July 8th 2014 with view to roll out September 2014

Monthly workshops Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan across different curriculum areas

HEA Institutional Accreditation - Bradford College

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Dr. Clive Opie PFHEA

Dean, McMillan School of Teaching, Health and Care

Questions

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Route 1 (for staff without a teaching qualification)

 Follow the PG Dip/Cert Ed course which, after modification, will lead to

either level D1 or D2

Route 2 (for academic staff with a teaching qualification and support staff )

 Completion of an e-portfolio with the option to move directly to an end-

point submission leading to level D1, D2 or D3 

Which level is submitted for will depend on the individual experience and decision by the mentor

Independent of which route is taken the focus of judgments will be based on how individuals can evidence the UKPSF framework

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Identify elements to be accredited

Gain institutional endorsement

Produce narrative(s)and supporting evidence

Self-assessment checklist

Initial check for completeness

Send back(incomplete)

Upload to Groupspace

Accreditation Panel

Meeting

Accredit

AccreditSubject to Conditions

Refer

Accreditor Feedback

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Preparation Submission Panel Outcome

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Questions and Comments

Rónán O’Beirne M.Ed. FCLIP, SFHEA

Director for Learning Development and Research

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