Supporting College Student Governors Summer Course
Day 1 objectives By the end of today you will be able to: Define why colleges exist and what environment they operate within. Define why a students’ association exists and your role within it. Explain your role as a Board Member. Explain the regionalisation agenda to your fellow students. You will also have: Met the sector agencies and understood how they can support you.
What is a college?
Learning Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to: Identify your college’s stakeholders and their interests. Explain what environment your college operates within. Explain how colleges communicate what they do. Explain how colleges work internally.
Stakeholders A stakeholder is: ‘A person, group or organisation with an interest or concern in something’ Who do you think a college’s stakeholders are? What do you think are their interests?
PESTLE PESTLE is an environmental analysis tool and stands for: Political. Economic. Social. Technological. Legal. Environmental.
Vision, mission and values Vision: a long term, idealistic, goal for an organisation. Oxfam’s vision is a just world without poverty. We envision a world in which people can influence decisions which affect their lives, enjoy their rights, and assume their responsibilities as full citizens of a world in which all human beings are valued and treated equally.
Vision, mission and values Mission: a medium term (3-5 years), achievable goal for an organisation. Amnesty's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination--in the context of our work to promote all human rights, as articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Vision, mission and values Values: a set of principles that set out how an organisation will approach the work it does. The British Red Cross’ values are: Compassionate. Courageous. Inclusive. Dynamic.
Types of committees you will encounter Board of Management Audit Committee Estates Committee Finance Committee Learning and T eaching Committee Staffing and Equalities Committee Academic Board IT Committee Quality and Standards Committee
Learning Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to: Identify your college’s stakeholders and their interests. Explain what environment your college operates within. Explain how colleges communicate what they do. Explain how colleges work internally.
Meet the Funding Council
What is the regionalisation all about?
NUS Scotland/sparqs regionalisation project Each group of colleges who are going through the regionalisation process will have one consultant supporting them. Their role is to: → Support students on the partnerships boards. → Facilitate students creating a vision for learning and teaching for the new college. → Support the development of a merged students’ association.
NUS Scotland/sparqs regionalisation project How will this be achieved? Pre-board Attend board Post board Outline of meeting meeting (where meeting support briefing possible) debrief Support for students on the partnership board Initial Meeting Projects as Proposal Kick Off Project Wash Up requested Drafted Meeting Delivery Meeting Learning and Teaching/Student Association Work
NUS Scotland/sparqs regionalisation project Training available: → Supporting College Student Governors Summer Course (Friday the 29th and Saturday the 30th of June). → Supporting College Student Governors Autumn Course (Thursday the 18th to Saturday the 20th of October). Two conferences will be held over the next two years to share practice. A collection of resources to be created for use by colleges and associations going through the regionalisation process.
What is a students association?
What is a student officer?
Why does a student association need support?
What have I got to do? Read the materials given to you. Produce a business plan with a budget to present to the Principal of Sparknuss College.
Cadogan’s matrix INSERT CADOGAN HERE
Some hints and tips before you start What do your students need? What does the college’s strategic plan say? How can you help the college achieve their goals? What does your Principal think? Don’t be afraid to think big but think what you can actually achieve. How are you going to present it?
Supporting College Student Governors Summer Course Day 2
Day 2 objectives By the end of the day you will be able to: Identify the importance of the student learning experience. Engage with quality enhancement processes at your college
The Student Learning Experience
Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to: Explain the Student Learning Experience. Describe your perfect learning experience. Set smart objectives.
The Student Learning Experience
SMART Objectives
Gathering student opinion Hands up before/after class. Surveys. Emails. Post it notes in tutorials. Face to face chats. Comment boxes. Online spaces: Course reps. → Facebook. → Twitter. → Virtual Learning Environments.
Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to: Explain the Student Learning Experience. Describe your perfect learning experience. Set smart objectives.
Quality Enhancement and Assurance- what is it all about?
Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to: Explain exactly what quality enhancement and assurance means. Describe how you can use these processes to improve your students learning experience.
Quality Enhancement and Assurance Quality enhancement can be defined as: ‘Taking deliberate steps to bring about continual improvement in the effectiveness of the learning experience of students.’ Quality assurance can be defined as: ‘A range of review procedures designed to safeguard academic standards and promote learning opportunities for students of acceptable quality.’
Action plan Solutions to the issue Best practice What is going well? What can we improve?
HMIe reviews Course reps Course feedback Reflection What is going well? What can we improve? Student satisfaction surveys Students Association Internal review processes
Evidence Course reps Scotland’s colleges Conferences Solutions to the issue Best practice within college Students Association Best practice from other institutions
Action plan
Quality Enhancement and Assurance Quality enhancement can be defined as: ‘Taking deliberate steps to bring about continual improvement in the effectiveness of the learning experience of students.’ Quality assurance can be defined as: ‘A range of review procedures designed to safeguard academic standards and promote learning opportunities for students of acceptable quality.’
Effective planning, meeting and organisation skills
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