As at July 2010 at the close of the HELP CETL

Forthcoming Events

There are no forthcoming HELP CETL events as the 5 year HELP CETL project completed on 30 July 2010.

HELP CETL Event Archive

Below are a series of events that were produced by, or in partnership with the HELP CETL.

 

UPC & HELP CETL Seminar Series

UPC and HELP CETL are pleased to announce a second series of seminars in 2010 following the success of the scheme during the last academic year. The events are open to anyone working within HE in FE, and are located at various UPC sites across the South West of England. For a list of all the themes and dates, please click here.

UPC Summer Conference

The UPC Annual Summer Conference is going to be bigger and better than ever! College staff are invited to this development day to be held on 7th and 8th June 2010. The event will begin with a celebration dinner on the evening of the 7th at Plymouth Marine Aquarium, followed by a full day conference on the 8th. The event is a celebration of the work of the HELP CETL and looks at ways in which the work will be embedded within UPC.

Higher Education Academy Evidence Based Practice Employability and Employee Learning Seminar Series 2010

The seminar  USPACE - Not reinventing the wheel but using the wheels to make a better vehicle: the use of Web 2.0 to enhance the support Foundation Degree students undertaking work-based learning will take place at the University of Plymouth on Wednesday 19 May 2010. It will examine new and emerging Web 2.0 technologies which have the potential to enhance and transform the learner experience and to develop the 21st century employability skills of communication, participation, networking and sharing.

The workshop is aimed at academic and professional staff in HE and HE in FE who would like to use easily employed Web 2.0 technologies to support learners in work-based learning. It will look at:
• the experiences of the UsPaCe project
• Web 2.0 tools to support learning
• digital literacies and their role in learning and employability
• perceptions of learners’ digital literacies
• delegates’ experiences of technology to support work based learners.

The JISC funded UsPaCe project integrated the Web2.0 technologies of social bookmarking, social networking and personalised web browsing pages incorporating gadgets and RSS feeds to create a tool for communication, personal development planning, group work and resource sharing. The result was a personalised learning environment to support UPC students in work based learning which enabled enhanced flexibility and choice, work force development and support of diverse learner needs.

HE in FE culture and experience: a partnership perspective
Warwick 30th - 31st March 2009

The conference brought together a wealth of strategic and organisational learning from seven HE in FE partnerships and gave participants the opportunity to debate, share ideas and make contacts to help them shape the future of their HE in FE partnerships.

CETL Student Network: June 16th/17th 2008 Conference, University of Plymouth

‘Staff-Student Collaborations: Partnerships within CETLs’.

Delegates from National CETLs, of both staff and students, gathered to hear about the practice of staff and student partnerships and collaborations. We encouraged individuals and groups to come and tell delegates about new innovations and good practice systems they have developed and are using that might benefit others.

With well over 70 delegates in attendance at our previous events, it is a great opportunity to network with others doing similar work at a whole range of different institutions and disciplines.

 
Downloads:

Brief history of CETL Student Network

Event registration form (pdf)

Workshops (pdf)

Draft programme (pdf)

(Please note you will need Adobe Reader installed on your machine to view pdf files)

 

UPC Winter Conference

The UPC Winter Conference is being held on Wednesday 14 November 2007 at the China Fleet Country Club, Saltash, Cornwall. The title of this year’s event is ‘ You cannot afford to miss this conference – A Practitioner’s Guide to Surviving IQER’.

The conference will focus on results from the Integrated Quality and Enhancement Review pilots and practical steps in preparation for IQER, as well as the opportunity to meet up with community of practice groups.

 

UPC Summer Conference 

Don’t miss UPC’s Summer Conference ‘What has UPC ever done for us?’ on Friday 6 July 2007 at the University’s Robbins Conference Centre .

The programme will look at the exciting new developments within the UPC Faculty and invite you to tell us what you’d like us to do next!

Key topics include:

• Innovation within Subject Forums and the Administrators Community
• The new skills plus strategy
• 'The student perspective'as captured byFdA Animation Students, Cornwall College
• Marc Lintern’s latest research ‘What do UPC’s Foundation Degree graduates do?’
• Liz McKenzie shares her experiences as a HELP CETL award holder
• Research carried out by UPC HELP CETL award holders

Seminar Session 1 - research presented from HELP CETL Award Holders

1. Work Based Learning
2. Blended Learning
3. The HE in FE experience
4. PDP and Skills Development

Seminar Session 2 - UPC Staff and Students

1. IQER
2. New ideas on assessment
3. What do students get from UPC?
4. Career management for students

 

HELP CETL and UPC Hospitality & Tourism Away Day  2007 -

Friday 04th May 2007 from 9.30 - 4.00pm at the Copthorne Hotel Plymouth.
The conference will provide opportunities to share experiences and identify and extend areas of good practice and includes:

• Presentation of the CETL materials developed to date
• Opportunity to discuss use of the Knowledge Exchange Network(KEN)
• Discussion of take up of FDs within FE colleges and how aspirations for HE can be raised
• Discussion on progression into and out off Hospitality & Tourism Foundation Degrees within the partnership
• Opportunities to network with colleagues from around the region
   
  Further details will be circulated closer to the event

 

Placements, Work Experience & Work-based Learning: Managers’ and Practioners’ Conference

2007 - Friday 04th May 2007 from 9.30 - 4.30pm at Robbins Conference Centre.

The conference will provide opportunities to:

• Share information
• Share experience
• Identify and extend areas of good practice
• Value the diversity of practice

Further details will be circulated closer to the event

 

HELP CETL and UPC Hospitality & Tourism Away Day  2007 -

Friday 04th May 2007 from 9.30 - 4.00pm at the Copthorne Hotel Plymouth.
The conference will provide opportunities to share experiences and identify and extend areas of good practice and includes:

• Presentation of the CETL materials developed to date
• Opportunity to discuss use of the Knowledge Exchange Network(KEN)
• Discussion of take up of FDs within FE colleges and how aspirations for HE can be raised
• Discussion on progression into and out off Hospitality & Tourism Foundation Degrees within the partnership
• Opportunities to network with colleagues from around the region
   
  Further details will be circulated closer to the event

 

Placements, Work Experience & Work-based Learning: Managers’ and Practioners’ Conference

2007 - Friday 04th May 2007 from 9.30 - 4.30pm at Robbins Conference Centre.

The conference will provide opportunities to:

• Share information
• Share experience
• Identify and extend areas of good practice
• Value the diversity of practice

 

Award Holder Scheme Workshops

Following the announcement on the 21st of January with the launch of the HELP CETL 2007/8 Award Holder Scheme, we will soon be running the first of three regional workshops to offer guidance on applications. The workshops will be held in the following locations:
 
HELP CETL Offices             21st of February 2007
Truro College                    1st of March 2007
SCAT                              9th of March 2007
 
The workshops will be commencing at 11.00 AM with a short introduction on the HELP CETL and our Award Holder Scheme followed by the opportunity of listening to past and present Award Holders sharing their experiences followed by lunch and the opportunity of discussing your application.

 

Award Holder Event January 4th & 5th 2007

The HELP CETL team are in the process of finalising plans for an Award Holder “get together” on January 4 and 5th 2007.  This event will give the chance for Award Holders (from both 2005/6 and 2006/7) to come together and share with the HELP CETL team their experiences of being an Award Holder and what it has meant for them.  This event will also focus on the emerging Award Holder Community of Practice and the continued involvement of HE in FE practioners in the promotion of scholarly activity.

 

UPC Winter Conference 8th November

This October marked the 3rd birthday of the UPC faculty, as such it was an appropriate time to reflect upon the successes and achievements of UPC, as well as looking forward and building on the achievements of UPC partner college staff. The programme for the day included sessions from partner college staff, project leaders and break out sessions for Subject Forums and the Administrators community. We were also delighted to welcome Francis Cambrook, the new SW regional director of FDF to share her visions on the future development of Foundation Degrees, and Ian Lindsay from the Higher Education Academy who ran a session on how partner college staff can utilise the HEA. Mark Stone will give the conference the latest updates on HELP CETL developments and Mike Peters was there to provide demonstrations on the power of the Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN).

The UPC Winter Conference was held on Wednesday 8th November 2006 at Future Inn, Plymouth. Claire Gray was coordinating this event.  

 

CETL Student Network Meeting 18th October

The National CETL Student Network meeting was held on Wednesday 18th October at Westbourne Campus, Birmingham. The network has been created with the mission to learn from each other and promote student involvement.

Link to Student Network page on HEA website Student Network

 

UPC Blended Learning Conference 20th October - 10am

The University of Plymouth Colleges and HELP CETL held a Blended Learning Conference on Friday 20th October, at St Mellion from 10am. The coordinator of the conference Julie Johns (E-Learning Coordinator) hoped the day would be the following "a chance to share innovative Blended Learning and good practise across the partnership. It will give us the opportunity to see how Blended Learning has effected curriculum mechanisms and the bringing of people together can lead to us sharing agendas and strategies".

 

A home for UPC staff on the Plymouth Campus, including good coffee..

The Higher Education Learning Partnerships [ HELP ] Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning [ CETL ] has now moved into its planned for, purpose built accommodation. This is located above the Freshlings Nursery on the Plymouth campus. This space is an exciting development for University of Plymouth Colleges [ UPC ] as the space offers a range of facilities and opportunities to support colleagues involved in the delivery and development of HE in FE provision.

Since UPC became a Faculty in 2003 the amount of collaborative work that it supports and facilitates across the region has expanded from what was already a substantial level. This has meant that there have been an ever increasing number of UPC colleagues visiting the campus. These visitors have, until now, had no dedicated space designed and provided for them. The HELP CETL investment is working to address this.

Drop in facilities

The HELP CETL now includes a drop in space where there are open access space PCs available along with open port network points for laptop users. There is also space to store or leave your files or other heavy items rather than carry these everywhere you go on campus. The CETL team will be monitoring use of the facility and working to make it suit your needs. As well as desks, there are also comfortable chairs, sofas and nice coffee if you just want to talk to colleagues or grab a quiet moment between meetings.

Bookable meeting room

This facility allows UPC colleagues to call and host meetings on the Plymouth campus in their own space, where they can be in control of the event. The room includes: movable tables, open port network points, a ceiling mounted data projector and interactive white board. For information on using this space, please contact Amy Pethick on 01752238653 or amy.pethick@plymouth.ac.uk

Video Conferencing facility

This space allows for UPC colleagues to use video services to work at a distance with members of the HELP CETL and UPC teams. It also allows for the use of video services to work with colleagues nationally and internationally when in Plymouth. This facility is linked to a HELP CETL developmental initiative to enhance the video conferencing infrastructure and support across the region.

Multiple Centres for Excellence

While this new space offers more opportunities to work with members of the HELP CETL and UPC teams, the building also hosts:

• the LearnHigher CETL
• the Experiential Learning CETL
• the Professional Practice Learning CETL

The Sustainable Futures CETL is located in an adjacent space [phone and web link]. The bringing together of the University of Plymouth CETLs, adjacent to the GEES Subject Centre [phone and web link], offers UPC staff easy access to a wide range of teaching and learning development and support services in close proximity. The HELP CETL team are more than happy to assist UPC colleagues in making connections with these other services.

CETL National Student Network Meeting

The CETL National Student Network meeting took place on Thursday 24th August, at the Enquiry Based Learning CETL in Manchester.

The aim of a network is to provide a forum for these essential staff members to discuss their ideas and their problems and to share valuable advice and insight into the opportunities available to students within other HE institutions

The network has decided to begin formalising the way in which it is organised and so all students/student representatives in CETLs are invited to the next CETL National Student Network meeting which is taking place in Birmingham on the 18th October, please see article in Future Events.

Link to Centre for Excellence in Enquiry Based Learning, [CEEBL]

 

"Yesterdays Legacy - Tomorrows Opportunity" Heritage Conference

Cornwall College and HELP-CETL to help tourism benefit from World Heritage Status

The recent award of World Heritage Inscription Status for the Cornwall and West Devon industrial mining landscape provides a unique opportunity for local tourism business.

Cornwall College's tourism team together with the University of Plymouth are presenting a conference on "Yesterdays Legacy - Tomorrows Opportunity". This is a response to the higher educational needs for Foundation Degrees, short "Bite sized Modules" and engaging with experts in the field on the future training needs to develop touristic activities, education and interpretation on the new UNESCO Designation for the “Cornwall and west Devon Industrial Heritage World Heritage Site"

Event took place on Thursday 12th October 2006

Press Releases

Cornwall College website link to Article on World Heritage Conference