Inspiring teaching, Transforming learning

Sarah Turnbull and Catherine Hack

Ulster Annual Staff Conference for HE Staff at Partner Institutions 16th October, 2015

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HEA funders and owners

Funders

Owners

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Our core proposition

Continuously improving teaching quality in higher education

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Improving learning outcomes by raising the quality of teaching in higher

education

Our mission

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The HEA is globally recognised for inspiring excellent teaching as an essential driver of

student success.

Our vision

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Progressive, Agile, Collaborators,

Trusted

Our values

On- Going Changes at the

HEA

Loss of funding by 2016

Divested 3 work areas:

Teaching Development Grants

Journals

Reduction in Events

Organisational restructure

Developing a Membership model

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Research Themes

We will focus on four key areas of work:

• Retention & Attainment

• Employability

• Assessment & Feedback

• Staff Development

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• Arts & Humanities

• Health & Social Care

• Social Sciences

• STEMM (Science,

Technology, Engineering,

Mathematics, Medicine)

Research Disciplines

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The Future of the HEA

We now have a clearer focus with two parts to

our work:

• Inspiring Teaching through work on the

Professional Standards Framework.

• Transforming Learning through work on our

Disciplines and Themes targeting specific areas

of practice

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HEA Subscribers

Over 220 institutions subscribe to the HEA including:

• all UK Higher Education Institutions;

• college-based HE providers;

• private HE providers;

• international HE providers.

• Developing an evidence base for learning and teaching in HE and informing policy

Strategic impact

• Helping deliver strategic Learning & Teaching objectives

Institutional excellence

• Helping individuals seeking professional career development

The individualjourney

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How we support the sector

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Institutional Subscription

benefits

1. Accreditation

2. National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS)

3. Surveys (UKES, PTES and PRES)

4. Partnerships

5. Consultancy services

6. Sector initiatives e.g. HEAR

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Individual benefits

1. Fellowship & the UKPSF

2. Toolkits

3. Courses

4. Events

5. National Teaching Fellowship Schem

6. My Academy

7. Sector initiatives e.g. HEAR

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UK Professional Standards

Frameworks (UKPSF)

The UKPSF is the cornerstone for standards in

teaching excellence and staff development in

higher education.

It offers universities and colleges a set of criteria,

developed with the sector, against which

institutions can align their initial and continuing

professional development for staff.

HEA recognition against the

UKPSF

1. The direct application

route (based on an

individual’s experience)

2. By successful completion of

an accredited institutional

programme or scheme

(including CPD schemes

and taught provision)

The HEA recognises staff against the Framework in two

ways:

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Contact Information

HEA

Innovation Way

York Science Park

York

YO10 5BR

Tel: 01904 717500

enquiries@heacademy.ac.yk

www.heacademy.ac.uk

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Contact Information

HEA Scotland

Holyrood Park House

106 Holyrood Road

Edinburgh

EH8 8AS

www.heacademy.ac.uk/scotland

Sarah.turnbull@heacademy.ac.uk

Murray.hope@heacademy.ac.uk

Pauline.hanesworth@heacademy.ac.uk