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Choice and opportunity: Are these realistic goals for higher education?

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).

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Choice and opportunity: Are these realistic goals for higher education?

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  1. Choice and opportunity: Are these realistic goals for higher education? • Dr Alison Le Cornu, SFHEA, FSEDA • Academic Lead: Flexible learning • 10 April 2014

  2. Hefce strategy statement (2011) • 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/

  3. Choice • 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 • 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.

  4. Excellence • International reputation • ‘New arrangements’ • Internationally excellent and world-leading research • Arenewed 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.

  5. Opportunity • 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. • People with the potential to benefit from successful participation in higher education should have the opportunity to do so.

  6. Flexible learning • 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)

  7. Drivers • Internal • Student fees and loans • Earn while you learn • Employability • (Image source: http://www.eitacp.com/program-fees/; accessed 17 March 2014)

  8. Drivers – or facilitators? • External • Mobility • Mobile technologies • Employment patterns • Outcomes-based employment? • Globalisation • 24/7 culture • Individualisation and personalisation • Big data

  9. The extreme view! • 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) http://www.hepi.ac.uk/files/HEPIJamilSalmiLecture23%20February2011-2.pdf; accessed 17 March 2014.

  10. The conservative view • 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 Image source: https://www.temple.edu/medicine/education/student_affairs.htm; accessed 17 March 2014.

  11. What is necessary and possible? • Possible • ‘Massage’ university systems and structures to introduce (small-scale) flexibility • Necessary • Equip students for a changing world • Shift to a part-time paradigm for everyone • Commonly-agreed and accepted robust credit transfer system – worldwide?

  12. Barriers and enablers • Provided on handout. • Available in Flexible Learning Summit Report

  13. What do you think? Are choice and opportunity realistic goals for higher education in the 21st century? Questions and comments welcome.

  14. Conditions of Flexibility: Securing a more responsive HE sector • Is the future flexible? • Guardian Round Table event, 23 May 2014 • Report: Professor Ron Barnett, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Education, London • Published 2nd week of June • Supported by 6 other reports available on HEA website

  15. Thank you! • More opportunities • HEA Annual Conference, 2 and 3 July, Aston University Booking: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/annual-conference/booking-information • Keep in touch • Join the flexible learning mailing list through ‘My Academy’ • FL email: flexiblelearning@heacademy.ac.uk • Twitter: @HEA_flexible

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