Everything you wanted to know about articulation but were afraid to ask

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Everything you wanted to know about articulation
but were afraid to ask

• Anne Jones, General Manager, Teaching Learning,
  Box Hill Institute of TAFE

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the level of articulation or transfer by
students between TAFE and higher education
courses is low only 1200 students in
2001. (Kosky, 2002)
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BHI experience

• The three-way collaboration with Sandstone
  University
• Interstate Intruder University partnership
• The Dawkins University alliance

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Why pathways dont work

• Pressure on HECS funded places generally
• Incompatibility between TAFE course outcomes and
  university curriculum-
• wheres the knowledge?
• it keeps changing!
• Lack of commitment

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International Comparison

• Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
• Colorado Mountain College
• Vitus Bering Polytechnic
• Barnet College of Further Education
• ICT in Irish FE colleges

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Jewels in the crown

• Swinburne Certificate IV in Design
• Chisholm- Pathways Plus
• Holmesglen dual awards
• Box Hill Music Performance

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Questions we should be asking about articulation

• Should articulation be an outcome from a TAFE
  qualification?
• Who should be responsible for pathways-should
  TAFE compromise?
• How can TAFE courses be modified?
• How can assessment be documented?

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Changes needed in Victoria

• Course documentation that reveals underpinning
  knowledge
• Course enhancement that increases knowledge
  components
• Funding for knowledge

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Changes needed nationally

• HECS/VECS
• ANTA commitment to knowledge competency
• Recognition that all work is knowledge work
• Articulation legitimised built into course
  design
• National credit transfer system

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Articulation urls

• ECTS - European Credit Transfer System
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/ects.
  html
• UMAP University Mobility in Asia the Pacific
• http//www.avcc.edu.au/policies_activities/interna
  tional_relations/umap/index.htm
• NCVER Credit Transfer site
• http//www.ncver.edu.au/edna/credtran.htm
• TAFE SA 2002 Articulation and Credit Transfer
• http//www.tafe.sa.edu.au/vet_div/irsi/credittrans
  fer/

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Strategies for modification

• Curriculum-based courses that encompass Training
  Packages
• Course implementation plans that make curriculum
  explicit
• Second year articulation streams
• Generic enhancements eg research skills
  academic writing
• Qualification specific enhancement