Well the question has gone to Finance but so far nothing has come back, fingers crossed and carry on.
I've filled in a form for Health that's basically an official statement of intent and I have a meeting with a few of their Programme Area managers (PAMs) in Sept to discuss where this award will sit if it goes ahead.
On a related note, I'm re-writing a module for the PgcHPE that will also make up a module on the MTEL award. I've gone back to basics as the module was written about 7 years ago with a particular student in mind that it doesn't really need to cater for anymore. It's interesting to see how much the module has drifted. I'm converting it from a half-hearted blended module with a boring final written assignment to a full DL one with 4 different assignments. I'm hoping to make it challenging but not scary.
Having sat on many validation panels I keep thinking of questions I will be asked and how to answer them. Something that worries me is the market. We've investigated and there are no similar awards in the region. Does this mean the region needs this award or does it mean that there's no call for it? perhaps the PAMs will have some good advice, I have the idea that health has a particular demographic of student so getting it right may take local expertise. On the other hand is it something I just made up?
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Complications
Just had a meeting with SD, University process guru. This could get really complicated!
I explained the ideas and asked her opinion. SD thinks that the idea of Health owning the students and LDI owning the award is not good, it fits no funding models and sounds unmanageable. We spoke about how I see the award and what sort of market I think we should aim for. I need to get this straight before I meet up with the programme area managers (PAMs) in Health.
I need to decide whether to try to build a negotiated framework that has the potential to use modules from all the faculties with an LDI core. This would need a central base and I'm not sure we have one, or to concentrate on working with the faculty of Health and build an award that is health specific which could be duplicated in other schools or faculties. This may seem like a mad idea having 6 versions of the same award but I don't think it would ever come to that. I reckon it will take a good few years to set up, run and establish before others people may want us to duplicate it. By the time that happens it will be up for its 5 yr review and so we could re-think it then.
The idea is that we create an award using the 3 LDI modules already validated, 1 new LDI module plus at least 2 validated health modules and another couple of modules from other faculties all to create an award MTEL (Health studies) . As the new modules would be part of a Health award they would need a faculty and a university validation but they would also need an ADI mini validation though this would not be as much work as it sounds as it would only mean turning up to another panel to deliver the same material rather than reproduce any work.
The fundamental question is: If Health own the award and the modules are drawn from Health and ADI then how is the income from the students distributed?
Finace will say there is a procedure for this but nobody has managed to track it down. I'm hoping to meet up with a PAM from Health and will see what they have to say.
I'm going back to school.
If Fred takes the 180 credit award, 120 credits are from LDI modules, 60 credits from Health. The course costs £6000, how is this divided between LDI and Health?
The answer is not "It all goes to Health"!!!!!
I explained the ideas and asked her opinion. SD thinks that the idea of Health owning the students and LDI owning the award is not good, it fits no funding models and sounds unmanageable. We spoke about how I see the award and what sort of market I think we should aim for. I need to get this straight before I meet up with the programme area managers (PAMs) in Health.
I need to decide whether to try to build a negotiated framework that has the potential to use modules from all the faculties with an LDI core. This would need a central base and I'm not sure we have one, or to concentrate on working with the faculty of Health and build an award that is health specific which could be duplicated in other schools or faculties. This may seem like a mad idea having 6 versions of the same award but I don't think it would ever come to that. I reckon it will take a good few years to set up, run and establish before others people may want us to duplicate it. By the time that happens it will be up for its 5 yr review and so we could re-think it then.
The idea is that we create an award using the 3 LDI modules already validated, 1 new LDI module plus at least 2 validated health modules and another couple of modules from other faculties all to create an award MTEL (Health studies) . As the new modules would be part of a Health award they would need a faculty and a university validation but they would also need an ADI mini validation though this would not be as much work as it sounds as it would only mean turning up to another panel to deliver the same material rather than reproduce any work.
The fundamental question is: If Health own the award and the modules are drawn from Health and ADI then how is the income from the students distributed?
Finace will say there is a procedure for this but nobody has managed to track it down. I'm hoping to meet up with a PAM from Health and will see what they have to say.
I'm going back to school.
If Fred takes the 180 credit award, 120 credits are from LDI modules, 60 credits from Health. The course costs £6000, how is this divided between LDI and Health?
The answer is not "It all goes to Health"!!!!!
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