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Tensions with HEIs

Tensions with HEIs. Nick Olley The Cambridge Partnership. The Cambridge Partnership. SCITT Currently secondary only Primary from next cohort PGCE via “partnership” with HEI SDTP Training p rogramme SDTP Salaried p rogramme SDTP Non-government funded programme Assessment only.

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Tensions with HEIs

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  1. Tensions with HEIs Nick Olley The Cambridge Partnership

  2. The Cambridge Partnership • SCITT • Currently secondary only • Primary from next cohort • PGCE via “partnership” with HEI • SDTP Training programme • SDTP Salaried programme • SDTP Non-government funded programme • Assessment only

  3. The Cambridge Partnership • Between 50% and 60% outstanding exit grades • 90% good or outstanding • 95% recruitment or better • Cover East Anglia in its broadest sense • Further afield according to need and school request • Flexible and bespoke programmes according to school and individual needs

  4. The Tensions • Collaboration with other SCITTs • Networking across the country • Collaboration with schools

  5. Flexibility • Insistence that the only way to do things is dictated by the HEI • Lack of distance learning opportunities • Existing successful documentation must be rewritten to be accepted by HEI • One way traffic • HEI documentation does not always fit the SCITT model • Calendar has to work to HEI calendar • Perception that it is less “partnership” and more “dictatorship”

  6. Value for Money • Recognition that we are buying services from the HEI. We are the customer • Lack of consistency in costs • SCITT does most of the work • Reluctance by HEI to detail what we are actually paying for • Perception that the partnership with the SCITT is to ease HEI finances, not for the greater good of student teachers or teaching in general

  7. Timescales • Moving the goalposts at very short notice • Finding things wrong when they have been accepted by others at the HEI • Last minute demands when time has been built in by SCITT • Speed of response in general • Emails and assignment marking • Lack of understanding that we are involved in much more than a PGCE

  8. Trainee Engagement • Consistency in dealing with student teachers • Sensitive and real support • Students returning to academic writing • Little or no flexibility or personalised programme to recognise student experience • No plan B for students who are struggling with the demands of the programme, having paid for it

  9. Modernisation • Willingness to adopt new practice • Understanding of the modern market place and needs of schools. No longer provider led. Now school led • Mutual professional respect • Understanding of the concept of “partnership” • Realisation that schools can work with as many providers as they wish • Use of modern technology

  10. Contact information • By e-mail: info@thecambridgepartnership.co.uk • By phone: 01487 833707 • By post: • The Cambridge Partnership, The Tony Robinson Centre, Sawtry Community College, Fen Lane, Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, PE28 5TQ • Website: www.thecambridgepartnership.co.uk

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