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CATS project in Management 2012/13
What have we achieved?
Pam Calabro, CATS Project [email protected]
What the project aimed to do
To develop a flexible, credit-based management curriculum offer, to support progression from level 3 to level 4 and higher
CATS project funding - £78,000 from BIS ‘A collaborative curriculum project using a common approach to credit accumulation and transfer in management provision to increase progression.’ Project administered by AoC
Time-scale – 1 July 2012 – 30 June 2013
Honorarium funds available to facilitate partner involvement & input
Key Partners
FECsCity & Islington College – Ian Sterling: [email protected]
City of Westminster College – Lyndon Sly: [email protected]
Hillcroft College (Jackie Beckford-Walker):[email protected]
Westminster Kingsway College – Howard White: [email protected]
HEIsBirkbeck, University of London – Anita Walsh [email protected]
Middlesex University – Darryll Bravenboer: [email protected]
Cont.
Professional bodies• Chartered Management Institute – Ann Bell:
• Institute of Administrative Management – Peter Bennett: [email protected]
• Institute of Leadership & Management (David Pardey): [email protected]
• Open College Network London Region (Jacquie Mutter): [email protected]
Project outputs / key deliverables
Articulation Agreements between sending and receiving institutions
which specify the courses available for progression at higher levels to
Level 3 learners (minimum of 2 per partner)
The creation of a flexible management curriculum offer that clearly
articulates credit, professional body alignment, APEL and HE
progression opportunities – The work of the 5 partner projects
Information, Advice and Guidance materials which specify the
management offer available to students, including opportunities for
APEL and the accreditation of professional qualifications
Cont.
A Staff Handbook
Case studies (one case study from each partner)
The organisation of a project dissemination conference in June
2013
Production of a final report to the Association of Colleges (AoC) &
contribution to a national case study
Project peer evaluation through the University of Greenwich
External evaluation through contract
Development of Articulation Agreements
• 4 signed between CANDI, Hillcroft College and Westminster Kingsway College and Birkbeck covering nine sending courses: progression from vocational courses and Access courses at level 3 and for progression to Honours degrees from FDs
• Agreements between CANDI and Middlesex are still being worked on
• A time consuming process. Led at Birkbeck by Nick Pronger - [email protected]
5 Partner Projects
• Run at CANDI, Westminster Kingsway, City of Westminster, Birkbeck and Middlesex– Opened up curriculum opportunities for APEL– The integration of higher level skills– The integration of professional qualifications
• Changes that have been achieved in a relatively short time and which, as they are linked to the achievement of institutional policy objectives, will continue long after the end of the project
Enhancement of APEL
• Focus of just one project at Birkbeck. Project has build on existing school and university work in this area, with the aim of making the process clearer and easier to use by external applicants
• In addition, to the project, the Staff Handbook, ‘A Guide to Understanding and Using Credit’ includes guidance on utilising APEL processes
Integration of higher level skills
• Focus of the project at City of Westminster College. Project stems from College perception that, currently, there is insufficient flexibility for transitioning learners from level 3 to 4.
• Project focus: trialling of use of an element of the level 5 HND Business Ethics unit on the level 3 Extended Diploma in Business.
• Appear to have gone well and the College plan to run a CPD session in early July which disseminates the model across other BTEC programmes at the College
Integration of Professional Qualifications
• This part of the project has been particularly innovative
• Worked with CMI and ILM – IAM involved early on only
• Involvement on programmes at CANDI, Westminster Kingsway and Middlesex
• Also professional recognition from the Chartered Institute of Builders and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors built into Construction Management programmes at Middlesex
Other achievements
• Creation of student and employer leaflets to publicise new articulation agreement offer
• Staff Handbook – ‘Guide to Understanding and Using Credit• Linking London Credit Directory and Register of Expertise• Peer and external evaluation• Project dissemination
All key project outputs achieved to a greater or lesser
degree – key now will be extent to which partners take forward
this work in their own institutions
Now hand over to project team who will describe in more detail
the work on which they have been engaged.
