Teaching

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Teaching Learning Conference 11 May
2009Jane Ratchford, Director Colette Cooke,
Head of MLP MLP, Careers Employability
DivisionMLP Students
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Aims of the MLP

• Delivering University Mission
• Embrace leadership that supports social, economic
  and environmentally sustainable society
• Develop leadership, entrepreneurial other
  skills
• boost their employability
• Confront values personal, social, civic,
  environmental
• Help community through volunteering
• Manchester NW
• UK
• Global

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What is the MLP?

• A credit-rated Leadership in Action unit
• 10 or 20 credits 5 interpretations
• Face to face lectures online unit
• Undergraduate
• Early researchers pilot in 2009
• Key challenges facing 21st Century society
• Inputs from high profile academics external
  speakers
• PLUS
• 60 hours voluntary work
• 15 hours minimum in Manchester/NW
• Student who do both get the Manchester Leadership
  Award

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MLP Recommendations of Review of Teaching
Learning

• To challenge and equip students to confront
  personal values and make ethical judgements.
• To prepare graduates for citizenship and
  leadership in diverse, global environments.
• To broaden intellectual and cultural interests.
• To prepare graduates for professional and
  vocational work
• To promote equality diversity.

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Many Universities looking at global citizenship
leadership

• Our efforts to create a global university start
  from the premise that the world has become
  increasingly interconnected not simply
  economically and geopolitically but also in the
  experience of daily life, through the immediacy
  of events that are broadcast worldwide and
  through the confrontation of cultures, ideas, and
  values that are evident to all.
• If Yale is to pursue its historic mission of
  educating leaders in such a world, it must
  develop sufficient curriculum in global and
  regional affairs so that students can equip
  themselves with the knowledge required of global
  citizens and leaders

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Changes to MLP

• 2009/10
• Closely reflect Manchester Matrix 2015/2020
  vision
• Manchester Leadership Award
• Bronze 20 hours volunteering
• Silver 40 hours volunteering
• Gold 60 hours volunteering
• 2010/11
• New MLP Global Challenge Units (10 or 20
  credits)
• Culture, Identity Conflict
• Healthy Communities

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Many graduates go on to be the business and
community leaders of tomorrow. It is important
that they understand key issues of local,
national global concern. The MLP enables
students to increase their understanding and
subsequent employability. Rebecca
Fielding Board Member, Association
of Graduate Recruiters
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MLP Awards Ceremony 2007
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MLP Volunteers in Kenya Ghana
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Leadership in Action Units

• Available face-to-face or online in Semester 1
  and Semester 2
• Semester 1 Tuesday 4.00 5.30
• Semester 2 Thursday 3.00 4.30
• Extensive use of Blackboard
• Audio podcast slides of each lecture
• Interdisciplinary E-tutor groups 20 students
• Post to assessed discussion boards after every
  lecture interact with tutor and other students
• Submit Assessment
• Find out about volunteering

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Interdisciplinary Approach

• Profs Nick Jenkins Greg Butler Sch Mech, Aero
  Civil Eng
• Dr Alice Bows Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
• Profs Mel Green, Tudor Rickards, Susan Moger
  MBS
• Prof Michael Worboys Life Science
• Prof Mel West, Kate Sapin Sch Education
• Prof Michael Woolcock Brooks World Poverty
  Institute
• Prof Adisa Azapagic Sch Chem Eng Analytical
  Science
• Profs John Sulston, John Harris, Margot Brazier
  Institute Science, Innovation Ethics/School of
  Law
• Prof Peter Dicken Sch Environment Development

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Range of speakers
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An apparently stable society flourished for
almost 1,000 years
But Easter Island was a society with folly at its
heart
It had the wrong kind of leaders
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The social irresponsibility of homo sapiens can
at times be almost incomprehensible The
Easter Islander who cut down the last tree must
have known. They still cut it down (John
Flenley. Massy University)
Individual self-interest and/or greed? or The
irresponsibility that comes from perceived
powerlessness?
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THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP

• Trait
• Behavioural
• Situational (contingency)
• New leadership
• Prof Mel West Head of School, Education

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Applied sustainability
Triple bottom line Sustainability Venn
Diagram

Environment
Environment Society Economy

Economy
Society
Sustainable development
Sara Parkin, Forum for the Future
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Carbon dioxide concentration Global temperature
changes Greenhouse effect
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Meeting consumer needs What we dont see
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Sir Terry Leahys MLP LectureCreating a
Business of Leaders
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• 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in world, are
  in China World Bank
• 44 of timber logged for sale to China as been
  felled illegally
• WWF
• 400 of the 668 largest Chinese cities are short
  of water

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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN BP
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN BP
BPs model for corporate responsibility
global leadership



progressive operator

• climate change

Selective Engagement We cant do everything!

• code of conduct

legal compliance

• BP Ultimate

• projects academy

• China WWF
• partnership

• solar power to
• remote villages

• driving safety

Responsible Operations(sphere of control)
legal compliance progressive operator global
leadership

• Enterprise Centre, Baku

sphere of influence
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Great Neighbourhoods

• Community Safety
• Jobs and Lifelong learning
• Healthy Living
• Social Inclusion
• The Environment

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This is something that belonged to my
step-father. It is, without protest, a piece of
'americana' albeit one which we are not proud.
"Pop" was a member of the Klu Klux Klan in the
late 1920's through the 30s right here in Orange
County, New York. So, you see, the south did not
have a private option on prejudice. Northern
'KKKers' were not likely to hang anyone or tar
and feather them. Mostly, they just marched
around in the dark of night performing some
ritual ceremony or burning crosses- especially in
some remote wooded area- I never heard of one on
a front lawn here although it surely could have
occurred.
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Case Study KKK Outfit

• Do we add a very controversial and sensitive
  object to a gallery?

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MLP students interview Hazel Blears. She says
MLP is a tremendous opportunity for the city to
benefit from some of the brightest most
compassionate students who have chosen to engage
with our communities.
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• 1997 Dolly, the worlds first cloned mammal
• 1998 Creation of the first human embryonic stem
  cell line
• hESC pluripotent, able to form any type of
  cell/tissue
• Possibilities for regenerative medicine

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MLP Debates

• If there was an avian flu pandemic in the UK who
  do you think should be the priority groups to
  receive scarce vaccines?
• You are a young offender and have been invited to
  give your views on how to reduce retail crime to
  the directors of the Co-op Group. What advice
  would you give and why?
• Does leadership bring moral obligations?
• Should relative achievement be more clearly
  acknowledged with our education system? What if
  this meant you had to give up your place in
  University?

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Assessment 10 Credit Unit

• 100 course work
• Groups of 4/5, mixed disciplines
• Assessment supports personalised learning
• Group Project, based on one of the themes of
  MLP to include
• ePoster Proposal
• Group ePoster (2,000 3,500 words) reference
  slide and bibliography
• Peer Assessment
• Individual Portfolio, comprising
• Individual Report, including Type Dynamics
  Indicator
• Assessed Discussions

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• Contents
• Background to the Games

The Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games and its
Legacy Sukhdeep Bhandal, Nikhil Dorlikar, Beckie
Earl, Robert Edmonds, Clare Evans
Introduction In November 1995, Manchester was
announced as host city for the 2002 Commonwealth
Games. This event was to be the largest of its
type to be held in Britain since the 1948 Olympic
Games and would involve 72 countries competing in
17 different sports.3 For many though, the Games
were seen as much more than a sporting event.
They were seen as an opportunity that would
trigger the much needed regeneration of East
Manchester. The Commonwealth Games are the
catalyst, the focus and the foundation for a
comprehensive and coordinated range of
multimillion pound investment in East Manchester,
the wider city, and the region that will drive up
the quality of life for Manchester people.
1 Manchester City Council Leader, Richard Leese
CBE.

• Structure of the E-Poster
• Throughout this e-poster, we hope to
• Identify key leaders involved
• uncover and analyse some of the challenges faced
• Decide which, if any, of the proposed benefits
  became a reality
• Finally, we will look at what influences the
  Games have had on our lives in Manchester. As
  potential leaders, future decisions that we make
  may affect projects such as the 2012 London
  Olympic Games and Manchesters Super-Casino. The
  successful bids for both projects have relied
  heavily on the outcome of the Games, and it is
  therefore important to consider how our actions
  will impact Manchester and its Legacy.

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Is Fairtrade REALLY making a difference?
Fair Trade is known to be part of the Ethical
Consumption Movement (Levi and Linton, 2003)
(5.0), but is it really ethical?

• DOES FAIR TRADE WORK GLOBALLY?
• Many researchers suggest it is not necessarily
  successful
• Macgillivray (2000) (5.9) found that fair trade
  products often have market shares of less than
  1.
• Hudson and Hudson (2003) (5.10) highlight that
  out of all fair trade coffee produced, only 50
  is actually sold as fair trade products, at the
  fair trade prices. The remaining 50 was sold at
  free trade market prices.
• This questions the whole concept - Is it because
  there is no demand for the final 50? Whether
  this is the case or not, Fair Trade being sold in
  the Free trade market highlights a system that is
  not entirely successful for the producers in the
  developing world.
• There is the opinion that making direct donations
  to developing countries is more beneficial that
  Fair Trade, however this may not encourage
  sustainable development. (Moore, 2004) (5.11) .

• PROBLEMS WITH THE DEFINITION.
• Moore (2004) (5.1) outlined an incongruence
  between ideas of what fair trade is.
• First there is a working model' of fair trade
  which makes a positive difference to the
  producers and consumers.
• A second idea (Renard, 2003) (5.2) changes the
  dominant economic model to one that favours the
  weakest economies in the world.
• This dissonance affects the ethics of the fair
  trade movement, because producers and consumers
  may have conflicting ideas of the purposes of the
  movement. Moore (2004) (5.3) thus highlights the
  importance of reaching a universally defined idea
  and objectives of fair trade in order to make it
  fair'.

IS FAIR TRADE REALLY SUCCESFUL IN THE UK? Hudson
and Hudson (2003) (5.4) and Macgillivray (2000)
(5.5) highlight a lack of sales of products,
particularly in the UK which is now termed a
Two-Tier Nation in terms of economy. The
poverty gap between the rich and the poor is
widening (Duncan, G. The Times, November 20,
2006) (5.6). Essentially, the lower tier of the
poverty gap cannot afford the high prices of Fair
Trade products. There have also been issues over
substandard' products (Leclair, 2002) (5.7) -
are we paying a higher price for a worse product?
If so, this questions the business ethics of fair
trade is Fairtrade being unfair? Furthermore,
fair trade is a form of globalization. Is an
increase in transnational production
networks(TNS) desirable? It is important to
consider the detrimental effect TNS have on
smaller British businesses. Moving production of
multi-national businesses to the developing world
and thus lowering costs makes local businesses
unable to compete, resulting in greater
unemployment of skilled workers in the UK. Fair
Trade may be an instrument of this and calls into
question, should our ethical considerations lie
at a global or national level? Should we take
steps to improve the economy of developing
countries by using Fair Trade? Or should we
concentrate on the huge issue of poverty in our
own country? Fair trade prices certainly do not
benefit the latter (Davies and Crane, 2003) (5.8)
.
Twee Vandaag a case study (5.12) In 2004, Dutch
television programme Twee Vandaag set out to
highlight some of the injustice and lesser seen
criticisms of Fair Trade. The programme featured
manufacturers from Thailand and Kenya who
suggested that Fair Trade works through middlemen
who, contrary to the objectives of fair trade,
often pay less than commercial dealers. A
manufacturer from Thailand was quoted as saying
"We don't make a profit. We even suffer some
losses. If we were purely dependent on Fair
Trade, we wouldn't have come as far as we have".
The broadcast therefore questioned some of the
fundamental principles of Fair Trade and
challenged initial perceptions through suggesting
that trading through the organisation may
actually be anything but fair.
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REFUGEES IN THE U.K.
INTRODUCTION
A refugee is a person who flees for refuge or
safety for example to a foreign country in time
of political upheaval or war
Hannah Dagger, Natalie Evans, Lenae Frazer, James
Conway, Laraib Ehtisham
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The Online Unit

• Delivered entirely online no timetable
  constraints
• Each module includes a range of interactive tasks
  and assessed discussion boards
• Unit made up of six modules released at intervals
• Students organised into interdisciplinary tutor
  groups, with eTutor.
• Assessment 40 ongoing and 60 summative
• Assessed Discussions
• Eco Journal
• Individual reflection
• Summative tasks (choice of 3) based on stimulus
  material

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ECO Journal

• Part of formative assessment for online unit
• Students use personal journal function of
  Blackboard
• Students record and reflect on eco diet over 6
  week period
• Tutor adds comments
• Assessed within Blackboard using grading form

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Change your future Change the world

• Before the MLP I didn't really know what I would
  do after uni. 
• It caused me to think about who I am, what my
  strengths are and what was possible. 
• The presenters inspired me to think I would like
  to start my own business and also make it as
  ethical as possible. 
• The MLP gave me the confidence to start my
  business and the strength to believe I could do
  it. 
• Anna Bryant, MLP 2006