Archive for December 23rd, 2007

Sri Lanka - Partnership Seminar Success

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Sri Lanka seminar for Broadcast Media

Broadcast Media team in Curriculum area of Design & Media have been successful in their bid - under Measure II of the PMI2 FE Partnerships Fund and will be invited to take part in a seminar in Sri Lanka at which some of the key themes relating to Sri Lanka’s system reform will be explored (in relation to both policy and practice).  It is anticipated that selected

UK and Sri Lankan colleges will forge partnerships focusing on developments linked to thematic areas listed below.    The event will take place during the week starting 21 January 2008 and is expected to be of 6 days’.

David Hiddleston and Fergus Robb will represent Edinburgh’s Telford College and will focus on the area of TV and Film.

Thematic areas

  • Vocational and technical qualifications at different levels based on occupational standards, industry led curricula, and a modular curriculum and credit structure which includes generic skills/competences; linked assessment strategies and teaching and learning methods; work based training.
  • Curriculum development at higher levels to cover SLNVQ Levels 5 to 7 (please see document on VET in Sri Lanka), including industry involvement at design stage, incorporation of employability skills and clear progression routes from vocational to higher education
  • Occupational standards: Methodology for developing curriculum packages to support occupational standards; design of industry led training; supporting employers in planning workforce development programmes. 
  • Quality assurance: Quality assurance methods, self assessment and the European Common Quality Assurance framework (CQAF). 
  • Relationships with employers and the community: Strategies/models for involving employers in joint planning; curriculum development and assessment and for engaging and consulting with different areas of the community; structures for maintaining and (where appropriate) ‘formalising’ these relationships. 
  • Teacher Training: Capacity building of senior managers/trainers, including leadership, management, business, ICT, HR, entrepreneurial skills and engaging with employers.  Capacity building of trainers in pedagogical and technical skills which reflect industry standards.
  • E-learning and distance learning : Alternative modes of delivery and assessment through e and distance learning via methods which are innovative, affordable and tested.

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Freelance Project Update - Tania Lopes

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Tania Lopes (HND Interactive Multimedia) has provided the blog with an update of her freelance project.

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Spartans Academy Website Launch

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Mariusz Pankiewicz (Learning Assistant | Design & Media) is in the progress of developing a website for the Spartans Community Football Academy.

The Academy will provide a new home for Spartans FC and will be managed by the charity set up by the club. The Academy will be used by over 1,500 people each week, mostly local youngsters. Telford College, local schools and community groups will run programmes at the Academy in conjunction with Spartans.

Spartans are already working actively in the local community supporting the Active Futures Programme, a primary school breakfast club and local agencies such as Muirhouse Youth Development Group. An Adult Literacy programme will also kick off in April 2008.

The Interactive Media team (David Hiddleston, Richard Bisset and Chris Hughes) will use the Spartans web project as a design case study where the HND Visual Communication: New Media and HND Interactive Multimedia will be talked through the design process from initial ideas through to their final design.

www.spartanscfa.com

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