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"!!!!!
Hi Sue
ReplyDeleteNightmare! One of the things I was involved in when similar, though not identical, issues presented was to begin with a blank page, look at the activities involved by each part/dept. and to devise a sense of who does what in this relationship and how much of the funding can be attributed. I'd emaging existing funding models are just not built for these new ways of working. The exercise of breaking down activities like this can be qite revealing, and sometimes not too popular, but very cathartic!
Thanks Lydia,
ReplyDeleteWe're going through this analysis process with another project at the uni so the more we can find out the better. I suspect that there are plenty of informal processes going on.