Sri Lanka - Partnership Seminar Success
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
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 - 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.