Workshop & seminar seriesHigher Education Academy

2

Welcome

Maureen Tibby

Academic Lead - Employability

Maureen.Tibby@heacademy.ac.uk

3

• Works in partnership with HEIs, student bodies, academic and professional staff and sector agencies and funders.

• Champions excellence in learning and teaching in higher education.

• Committed to improving the student learning experience by:

• raising the status of teaching

• adding to the body of knowledge relating to pedagogy

• enhancing professional teaching practice

• facilitating networks and communities of practice.

• http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/strategic-plan

The Higher Education Academy Strategic Plan 2012-2016

The Higher Education Academy

Promote research and evidence that has informed departmental and institutional policy and practice• HEA funded

• Hosted by individual institutions

• Thematic

• Employability• Internationalisation• ESD• HEAR

• Discipline (all areas)

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/seminar-series

4

Workshop & seminar series

5

Forthcoming seminarsTheme Host HEI Title Date

ESDKeele

UniversityNew to ESD

?: Integrating education for sustainable development in teaching and the student experience

22 January 2014

EmployabilityBlackburn College Crossing the ‘Employability Chas

m’ with Local Enterprise Partnerships

24 January 2014

EmployabilityBirmingha

m City University

Improving employability through student and academic partnerships

5 February 2014

ESDCardiff

UniversityThe campus as a living laboratory - exploring place-based approaches to

ESD

12 February 2014

EmployabilityUniversity of Ulster A model for increasing students’

understanding of their employability

21 February 2014

ESD/

Employability

University of East Anglia

Integrating ‘sustainability’ within degree programmes: towards a student handbook

28 February 2014

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/seminars-themes

6

HEA support for employability

• Disseminating good practice Sponsorship, conferences,

workshops, seminars, bulletin, website, consultancy, training, resources and research .

• Recent publications: Defining

and developing your approach to employability: A framework for higher education institutions

Measuring the impact of Pedagogy for Employability (2012) on employability policy and practice

Professional capabilities in non-vocational subject disciplines

7

HEA support for employability

Training • to complement

Framework for Employability

Impact study • how Teaching Development Grant

funding influences practice

Enterprise Education:• publication of good practice 2014

• enterprise conference, May 2014, London

Industrial scholarships pilot 2013-14

• four HEIs

Graduate adaptability pilot 2013-14

• Up to ten HEIs

• UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) - description of dimensions of the roles of teaching and supporting learning within HE

• HEA offers recognition and accreditation service to recognise staff involved in learning support

• Framework has been designed to cover all aspects of teaching and learning support

Accreditation and recognition

8

• HEA STEM ClusterEnhancing the STEM Student Journey30 April-1 May, University of Edinburgh  

• HEA Social Sciences ClusterTeaching forward: the future of the Social Sciences21-22 May 2014, Birmingham

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events

• HEA Arts and HumanitiesHeroes and monsters: extra-ordinary tales of learning and teaching in the arts and humanities2-4 June 2014, The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester

• HEA Annual ConferencePreparing for learning futures: the next 10 years2-3 July 2014, Aston University, Birmingham. *call for papers open until 27th January 2014

9

HEA annual conferences 2014

Teaching development grants• Create innovative evidence-informed practice in L&T• Collaborative call closes midday on Friday 24

January 2014• Maximum £60 000 per project• Cover all themes

International scholarship scheme• Funding to spend 3-6 months visiting international

institutions• Explore interesting, challenging and innovative

international learning and teaching practice and policy ideas

• Examine the possibility of implementation within the UK

• Closing date: midday Monday 20 January 2014

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding

10

Funding opportunities

• Website Details of events, resources and fundinghttp://www.heacademy.ac.uk/employability

• Mailing listSign up through My Academyhttp://www.heacademy.ac.uk/my_academy

• Email the employability teamEmployability@heacademy.ac.uk

11

Keep in touch