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Choice and opportunity: Are these realistic goals for higher education?. Dr Alison Le Cornu, SFHEA, FSEDA. Academic Lead: Flexible learning. 10 April 2014. Hefce strategy statement (2011). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Dr Alison Le Cornu, SFHEA, FSEDAAcademic Lead: Flexible learning 10 April 2014
Choice and opportunity: Are these realistic goals for higher education?
Sets out HEFCE's high-level approach to tackling the challenges and opportunities of higher education reform.…‘We have identified a number of key principles – opportunity, choice, and excellence – which will drive change in higher education and guide our future work.’https://www.hefce.ac.uk/about/howweoperate/strategystatement/
Hefce strategy statement (2011)
We will aim to support a higher education sector with a diverse and flexible range of provision, embracing all academic disciplines and building further on the wide range of qualifications currently available through full- or part-time study and accelerated learning.
• Students need to be able to make informed choices
• Location and type of courses must reflect student demand
• New approaches must not compromise quality or standards
• Inclusion of more private sector providers 3
Choice
A renewed commitment to high-quality higher education that is more responsive to student choice, which provides the best possible student experience and which helps improve social mobility.
• International reputation
• ‘New arrangements’• Internationally
excellent and world-leading research
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Excellence
People with the potential to benefit from successful participation in higher education should have the opportunity to do so.
• Widening participation• Monitoring the effects
of the new financial system
• Renewed focus on the whole life-cycle of higher education from pre-entry, through admission, study support, successful completion at undergraduate level and progress on to further study or employment.
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Opportunity
Choice in how, when, where and at what pace students will learn
Pace, place and mode of delivery
(Image source: http://taspolicies-elearn.wikispaces.com/FACS+and+Problem-Based+Learning; accessed 17 March 2014)
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Flexible learning
Internal• Student fees and
loans• Earn while you learn• Employability
(Image source: http://www.eitacp.com/program-fees/; accessed 17 March 2014)
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Drivers
External• Mobility• Mobile technologies• Employment patterns• Outcomes-based
employment?• Globalisation• 24/7 culture• Individualisation and
personalisation• Big data
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Drivers – or facilitators?
• Universities mostly administrative campuses
• Nutbeam: The end of the university campus?
• Lifelong learners – MOOCs?
• Mobile learners, mobile employees
• Huge consortia of collaborating universities (quality, standards, credit transfer)
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The extreme view!
http://www.hepi.ac.uk/files/HEPIJamilSalmiLecture23%20February2011-2.pdf; accessed 17 March 2014.
Little change• Students claim their
rite of passage from childhood to adulthood
• Loan system functions adequately
• Ongoing division in fee structure dividing full-time and part-time students
• Credit transfer not widely accepted
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The conservative view
Image source: https://www.temple.edu/medicine/education/student_affairs.htm; accessed 17 March 2014.
Necessary• Equip students for a
changing world• Shift to a part-time
paradigm for everyone
• Commonly-agreed and accepted robust credit transfer system – worldwide?
Possible• ‘Massage’ university
systems and structures to introduce (small-scale) flexibility
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What is necessary and possible?
Provided on handout. Available in Flexible Learning Summit Report
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Barriers and enablers
Are choice and opportunity realistic goals for higher education in the 21st century?
Questions and comments welcome.
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What do you think?
Report: Professor Ron Barnett, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Education, London• Published 2nd week of
June• Supported by 6 other
reports available on HEA website
Is the future flexible?• Guardian Round
Table event, 23 May 2014
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Conditions of Flexibility: Securing a more responsive HE sector
Keep in touch• Join the flexible
learning mailing list through ‘My Academy’
• FL email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @HEA_flexible
More opportunities• HEA Annual
Conference, 2 and 3 July, Aston UniversityBooking: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/annual-conference/booking-information
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Thank you!