Scotland’s Quality Enhancement Themes: a creative approach embracing institutional diversity
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Scotland’s Quality Enhancement Themes:a creative approach embracing institutional diversity
Dr Claire Carney, Head of EnhancementQuality Assurance Agency Scotland
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• Background and scene-setting• Scotland’s enhancement-led approach: the Quality
Enhancement Framework• Enhancement Themes
• Graduates for the 21st Century• Current Enhancement Theme: Developing and
Supporting the Curriculum• Conclusions and findings • How to keep informed
Outline:
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• a devolved parliament• its own education system• 19 higher education institutions
including:– undergraduate curriculum based on
four-year honours degree programmes
– no undergraduate student fees
Background: Scotland
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• Enhancement -taking deliberate steps to bring about improvement in the effectiveness of the learning experiences of students. • Aims to enhance the student learning
experience and encourages student engagement and participation
• Emphasises partnership & collaboration
Enhancement-led approach in Scotland
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away from top-down compliance processes to participative and critical supported self-evaluation;
away from audit and towards improvement; away from ruffling the surface of HE practices
and towards permeating the system; away from mechanistic models based solely
on inputs and outcomes and towards more sensitive forms of evidence of cultural change, while maintaining rigour and challenge’.
Quality Enhancement Framework
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• Institution-led quality review• Enhancement-led Institutional Review• greater voice for student representatives in
institutional quality systems (sparqs)• improved public information about quality• national programme of Enhancement Themes
Quality Enhancement Framework
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Enhancement Themes
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• Strategy and vision 2012-16:
Our strategic aim is to ensure that our HE institutions work together to develop, foster and embed a culture of
quality enhancement in learning and teaching, through effective partnerships involving staff, students and other
stakeholders
Oversight of the Themes
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• Evidence-based• Evaluation• Internationalisation • Leadership and influence• Quality Culture
• SHEEC decides the broad topic for each Theme including the order in which Themes take place
SHEEC - objectives
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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012-2014
Enhancement Themes
SHEEC – July 2005 →
Employability
Flexible Delivery
Assessment & IA
The First Year
Research-Teaching Linkages
Graduates for the 21st Century
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Individual Enhancement Themes are taken forward through:
sectoral consultation and scopingthe appointment of a steering committee
How are Themes developed?
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In all of the above, there is flexibility & evolution
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• began work in 2010• steering committee chaired by
Professor Philip Winn, University of Strathclyde
Graduates for the 21st Century
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G21C aimed to:• integrate and consolidate aspects of all the
previous Enhancement Themes
and to consider • what should be the attributes of a graduate
from Scottish higher education in the 21st century and how can the achievement of these attributes best be supported?
Graduates for the 21st Century
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Shift in approach: process rather than product
• Steering Committee• institutions: teams allow for institutional
priorities to be addressed• areas of shared interest: work facilitated by
project facilitators• sectoral: a symposium series to consider
the Theme’s wider implications
Graduates for the 21st Century
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More about sharing and learning
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What did HEIs do..?
Evidence-gathering
and enquiry Awareness-raising
& communication channels
Policy refinement & strategic
development
Review & updating of pedagogical
practicesLooking
over the fence - learning from
elsewhere
Seedcorn projects and
Award schemes
Institutions’ strategies for
taking forward the Enhancement
Theme
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• Has it been a successful Theme?– Yes – evidence of engagement and interest
across the sector.– Evidence in current ELIR reports– Feature in many HEIs programme designs– Increasingly incorporated into prospectuses
– “Graduate Attributes”, like “Research-Teaching Linkages”, is now a universal concept through the sector.
Graduates for the 21st Century
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Current Theme
Developing and Supporting the Curriculum• How is the curriculum, in its
broadest sense, shaped and delivered?
• Who is it for? How is the student body changing?
• What support is required for staff?
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• Institutional work: lots of momentum • Student network• Commissioned work
• Flexible Curriculum• Staff: enhancing teaching• Curriculum for Excellence
Developing and Supporting the Curriculum
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A Learning Continuum
• New school curriculum (CfE)- Delivering the 4 capacities• successful learner, confident
individual, responsible citizen, effective contributor
• Capacities much in common with graduate type attributes- Make reasoned evaluations
- Apply critical thinking in new contexts
• CfE impact on HE curriculum??• We are all researchers..
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Are they worth it…?
• identify sector-wide strategic needs and aspirations
• sector-led and owned • engages with the academic community at all levels• engages with the student body• national and international good practice• supports the management of change
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• Themes are not a panacea nor will they be able to answer all questions
• time and resource limited but • cumulative reflection to enhance the student
learning experience• Evaluation – it seems to be working...
Some things to remember…
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• Need high level buy-in but also mechanisms to influence middle-layer
• Do not need a huge amount of resource• Build relationships and trust• Don’t do too much too soon• Broad Themes work – it allows for institutional
diversity• It takes time for culture change
Conclusion:
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Enhancement Themes website:www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk
International Enhancement Themes
Conference 11-13 June 2015