HEICOLLEGE LINKS

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HEI-COLLEGE LINKS

• Developing Links and Bridging Arrangements
  between
• College and University
• Lynne Hooton and Alex MacLennan

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The Scottish Credit and Qualifications
Framework (SCQF)
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The SCQF Have we been here before?

• Its predecessor
• SCOTCATS in 1989
• What made it work then?
• The framework or regulations?
• Rules and protocols?
• NO!

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Key elements of SCOTCATS and SCQF

• Credit points
• Level
• Transferability
• Flexibility
• Enabling
• Recognises prior learning

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Credit and The Professions

• Nursing - A Major success for SCOTCATS
• Huge demand
• Why?
• Credit transfer national credit tariff
• Accreditation
• A graduate profession

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What made it work?

• Recognised and valued learning
• Prior formal and informal learning
• Shortened the time to gain qualification
• Reduced pressure on personal resources
• Facilitated credit transfer
• Increased flexibility
• Promoted part-time learning

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SCOTCATS and SCQF

• A framework
• Enables products and ideas to be developed
• Products and ideas that meet learners needs
• Meets demand
• Generates demand
• SCQF not simply a framework

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Social Care Context

• 8 Universities 46 Colleges
• SiSWE - new Social Work Honours Degree
• SQA Awards - new HNC Social Care
• Social Service Workforce Strategy
• Codes of Practice
• 21st Century Social Work Review
• Confidence in Practice Learning
• Registration requirements

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Transition FE to HE

• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Tutor support portfolio preparation
• Personal Development Planning
• Practice Learning Audits
• Contact with students in different years
• Lunch hosted by final year students
• Learning Support Tutor
• Mentoring Scheme
• Effective Learning Service
• Summer School

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Gaps and further development

• Transition links between institutions
• Staff links between FE and HE
• Student links opportune rather than consistent
• Employer links relatively unstructured
• Better use of general supports

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Asking students

• Although sometimes you get unexpected responses
• We learned more about how to survive on this
  course from speaking to each other in the ladies
  loo than we did from anything else!

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Where now?

• SCQF Co-ordination Group for Social Services
• Rationalisation of resources
• Flexible learning opportunities
• Recognition of Prior Learning
• e-Learning Stor Curam, COLEG
• Learning Centres
• Consistent provision of information

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The Three Strands Some Outcomes

• Mapping
• The first national database of progression
  opportunities between colleges and HEIs
• A website to support FE/HE links
• Tracking
• Agreed data fields for charting student flow
• Bridging
• Diagnostic toolkits for students and institutions

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The New Website

• Web Address
• www.scqf.org.uk/college2uni

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Bridging the GapsThe Toolkits

• Key Areas
• Staff Awareness
• Curricular Issues
• Teaching and Learning
• Assessment
• Induction and Bridging Arrangements
• Student Support
• Learning from Good Practice

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Discussion and feedback

• What do you hope to see developing from this?
• What are the practical concerns?
• What are the educational issues?
• What are the issues for practice?
• What questions would you ask?
• Illustrative examples that can help others in the
  sector?