engaging and working with the higher education academy simon steiner
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May 2012
Engaging and working with the Higher Education
Academy de
Dr Simon Steiner – Discipline Lead (Engineering)
• The changing higher education environment
• A re-structured Higher Education Academy• The HEA
• Academic Practice Development
• STEM and the Engineering Discipline
• Working with the Engineering Discipline in engineering, technology and materials• Achievements during the transition period
• Funding initiatives and opportunities across the HEA
• Your future engagement - with the HEA and the Engineering Discipline
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An overview
• A new era in higher education, with a rapidly and increasingly changing landscape:
• Student fees• Learning technologies• Increased competition• Employers and employability• Reduced teaching budgets• Growing student numbers
• Changes in student expectations, and increased attention on the quality and status of teaching
• The Academy’s focus remains on the student learning experience, and on work to enhance the quality of that experience 3
The higher education environment
• All activity now based from York, with offices in Edinburgh and Cardiff
• Remains owned by the HE community, through UUK and GuildHE, and funded by the 4 funding HE councils across the UK, with subscriptions from HEIs, and with external grants
• Working in partnership with institutions and sector bodies, to shape learning and teaching in UK higher education through the disciplines, to deliver both thematic and discipline-specific engagement 4
A re-structured Academy
The delivery of services is through activities under three headings:
• Academic practice development
• National workshops/seminars• Support to staff - PGTA/new-to-teaching staff
workshops• Teaching development grants
• Teacher excellence
• Accreditation; UKPSF; Recognition/NTFS
• Institutional strategy and change
• Consultancy; Summits; Partnership development5
The HEA – a new structure
• Academic Practice Development comprises four clusters:
• STEM, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
• STEM comprises:
• Physical Sciences; Maths, Stats. & OR; Computer Science; Engineering (inc. Materials); BioSciences; Geography; Psychology; Built Environment
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Academic Practice Development
• Transition-funded work (August ’11 to May ’12):
• Centre for Engineering and Design Education (CEDE) at Loughborough;
• UK Centre for Materials Education (UKCME) at Liverpool
• On-going support to communities of practice:
• via E-Bulletins, website updates (news, events), SIGs, enquiries;
• New Lecturers’ and PGTA Workshops; • Engineering Education journal; external projects’
dissemination (HE-STEM, OER, GDEE); • EE2012 conference – 18-20th Sept , at Coventry, and
sponsored by HEA7
Transition activities - engineering
• New areas of work:
[Discipline Leads, working with ADOs and appointed Academic Associates]
• Thematic and Discipline funded Calls for Teaching Development Grants and the hosting of events (seminars/workshops), and award of Travel Grants
• New to Teaching event(s) and PGTA workshop(s) across STEM
• Annual HEA STEM Conference: held 12/13th April 2012 at Imperial
• Dept Change Programme (from NSS), with 10-12 HEI departments/faculties.
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The engineering discipline - 1
• An annual Cluster Summit. This was held at Cardiff, 1-2 Feb., ’12, on Feedback – report pending
• Engagement with professional bodies and organisations (on committees, provision of workshops – accrediting PBs, RAEng, EPC, EC, EngNet/SSCs)
• Engagement with international groups (CDIO, AAEE, ASEE/NAE, SEFI/IGIP)
• Formation/support of discipline Special Interest Groups (SIGs) – Global Dimensions; Future of Engineering Education 9
The engineering discipline - 2
• Support to initiatives with Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland (Employability; Resources, Curriculum, SSCs, Strategic Subjects), Academy Change Programmes and Initiatives
• Promotion of Academy initiatives and funded programmes – UKPSF, HEAR, Student-led Awards, Teaching Development Grants (TDGs), the International Scholarship Scheme, the Doctoral (PhD) Programme
• Commissioning of new work (studies, reports, resources...)
• New areas of working (support, advice) - please let us know!
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Future engagement with the HEA