Learning and Teaching Professional Development Framework

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Learning and Teaching Professional Development Framework

Guide 9: Recording information about your teaching qualifications and professional recognition /

memberships

Purpose To assist with the accurate recording of any teaching qualifications and/or professional recognition and memberships. This will enable College HR teams to update the information on your personal record, and ensure we reflect staff qualifications accurately in national statistics. This is an important exercise to

help us ensure we can reflect public information about NTU academic staff as accurately as possible. We appreciate your time in helping the University improve the quality of our personal staff information.

Target audience For all Academic and Research Staff including Hourly-Paid Lecturers checking the information held on them in their personal record, and recording information of their teaching qualifications/ and professional

recognition and memberships

Context The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and reports a wide range of staff and student related information from all universities, including information on the qualifications held by academic staff, including all hourly-paid lecturers irrespective of the hours they work.

From the 31st _{July 2013, we will be required to include information about 10 different categories of teaching}

qualifications and professional recognition held by our academic staff (see Table 1 of this guide). We anticipate that this information is likely to be published as part of the Key Information Set (KIS) which students and their parents will use to compare universities. Information about other academic qualifications (eg Masters and PhDs) held by academic staff is already published.

A recent review of our NTU academic staff information revealed significant gaps in the information. For instance, colleagues not recorded as holding PhDs and other higher qualifications. We are keen, therefore, to update existing information as well as collect the new information with the minimum of disruption to already busy colleagues.

Guide reference Guide 9 in series 25th _{October 2012 version 4}

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 Between November 2012 and February 2013, you will be provided with a transcript of your personal HR record listing the information recorded about your qualifications.

 You are required to check the accuracy of the current information listed on it, correct any errors, and add in omissions using the following guidance:

For each qualification listed or that you add, please ensure you :

o Indicate with an asterisk or the highest academic qualification you hold

o Write the full award title, any honours, the subject or discipline AND the award letters abbreviation  For example, Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences, PhD

 For example, Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering, MSc

 For example, Bachelor of Arts with honours in English and Media Studies, BA (hons)  For example, Bachelor of Music, BMus

 For example, Bachelor of Arts in Music, BA  For example, Bachelor of Metallurgy, BMet  For example, Higher National Diploma, HND

o Avoid listing partial award titles such as ‘Masters’ or ‘Degree’ or ‘Certificate’ – list the full award or qualification title

o For any Vocational qualifications, please indicate level eg National Vocational Qualification Level 3 in Art, NVQ 3 not NVQ in Art

o Avoid leaving just the award letters – list the title out in full to ensure it can be recorded accurately  For example, what qualification or award has the abbreviation: C.A.C.D.P. ?

 For example, what qualification or award has the abbreviation: CPSA ?  For example, what qualification or award has the abbreviation: MQB ?

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o Write the qualification award - not the awarding body or the course title

 For example, CCETSW is not a qualification – it is an awarding body (Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work) – list the qualification awarded by them

 For example, British Horse Society – what is the qualification or award? Is this a membership such as Fellow or Member?

 For example BTech HND – Btech is the awarding body, HND is the qualification

 For example D32 – state the qualification award title and wording rather than the shorthand number

Note about recording teaching qualifications, professional recognition and memberships

o Table 1 on the next page lists the categories of teaching qualification, professional recognition and memberships that will be required in our next HESA return (summer 2013).

o On the back of your transcript, you will find a table of boxes with numbers corresponding to these categories – and an additional ‘OTHER’ box.

o Please list any teaching qualifications, professional recognition and memberships against the relevant

category.

o If you have additional teaching qualifications that aren’t included, please list them in the ‘OTHER’ box.

o Please remember to write out your qualifications titles as you would wish them to appear on your record, to ensure that HR colleagues have all the information necessary to enter the data accurately on your record.

Please note there is no need to produce documentary evidence of your qualifications etc., at this point. Our priority is to update our staff records first. Your College HR colleagues will then make separate arrangements with each academic team to copy certificates at a later date.

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Table 1:

Guidance on recording your teaching qualifications, professional recognition and memberships against the HESA categories

Teaching qualifications

HESA category

What’s included

Advice

01

 HE teaching qualifications or programmes that are accredited against the UKPSF by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) at NTU or any other institution such as :

o NTU PGCHE (only those awarded from 2007 onwards) o NTU Initial Teaching Award Course (from 2013) o NTU Academic Practice Award Course (from 2013)

 Any teaching courses or programmes accredited against the UKPSF that you completed (even when you did not put yourself forward for the actual accreditation award – please list the course completed).

 SEDA Professional Development Framework teaching qualifications: o SL: Supporting Learning

o LTA: Learning, Teaching and Assessment

 Do not include non-accredited programmes (including NTU’s Essential Teaching

Toolkit, ETT, and Introduction to Learning and Teaching in HE, ILTHE short

professional development programmes and events) do not count under any HESA category as they are non-accredited

If your PGCHE pre-dates the UKPSF (at NTU that’s pre-2007) then you should list it under category 07 instead.

There are potentially many different award titles in this category, as institutions adopt a variety of course and award titles.

SEDA qualifications listed are now accredited against the UKPSF – include any SL and LTA awards that predate the UKPSF.

If you are unsure whether the qualification you gained is accredited against the UKPSF, please contact the course leader at the provider institution – you should have a separate certificate of professional recognition from the HEA in addition to your academic qualification.

02

HEA as an Associate Fellow

 HEA Associate Fellow Only one of the codes 02-05 can apply to you

at any one time. Please record the highest

level of HEA professional recognition you have achieved.

It does not matter whether you attained your recognition through an accredited course or programme, or via a direct application to the HEA – just list the highest one you have.

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HEA as a Principal Fellow

 HEA Principal Fellow (from 2012)

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NTFS individual award awarded by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) While the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme individual Award is temporary, you should still list an entry if you have at any time

held this award.

07

education, life-long learning or any other equivalent UK qualification

Do not include any Primary teaching qualifications in this category.

Include only postgraduate teaching qualifications in the sectors mentioned such as:

 NTU PGCHE (completed prior to 2007)

 Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE secondary)

 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher education (PGCHE) that is not accredited against the UKPSF (2007 onwards)

 Any other non-HEA accredited PGCHEs with different titles such as Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) or Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in higher education (PGCLTHE)

 Institute for Learning (IfL) license to practise in Lifelong Sector and qualifications: o Qualified Teaching Learning and Skills or QTLS status, and qualification

leading to this – DTLLS (Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Sector) o Associate Teaching Learning and Skills or ATLS status, and qualification

leading to this – CTLLS (Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Sector) o PTLLS – Preparing to teach in Lifelong Sector

There are potentially many different award titles in this category. If you are at all unsure whether any of your qualifications should be listed under 07, please list them under ‘OTHER’ and we will categorise them.

Note that City and Guilds Teaching Qualification leading to QTLS can be listed either under 07 OR 09. The qualifications should not be listed twice.

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Note this does not include any other professional practice recognition – include only

accreditations as a teacher in a particular subject(s) such as:

 TESOL / TEFL / qualifications

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 PhDs/Prof Doctorates/Masters qualifications that focus HE professional teaching and learning support practice

 City and Guilds Teaching qualification leading to Qualified Teaching Status (QTLS)

 ILT Fellowship recognition from the Institute of Learning and Teaching (ILT)

 SEDA professional teaching qualifications which are not accredited against the UKPSF

Excludes educational management qualifications

Note that City and Guilds Teaching Qualification leading to QTLS can be listed either under 07 OR 09. The qualifications should not be listed twice.

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Include any accreditations or qualifications and the country in which you obtained them, irrespective of their currency or academic level

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