HEaTED have engaged in discussions with Performance for All about how to provide a holistic solution for technicians' development whereby managers and practitioners could have a desktop toolkit to address issues such as:
Assistance with job design
Induction planning
Building career maps
Keeping training records
Identifying gaps and training needs
Central Development Library opportunity connections (internal provision from individual HEIs and linkage to external provision e.g. HEaTED course programme)
As a result of exploring current provision with the Science and Engineering Council's Registration processes and standards now published, HEaTED have produced a draft UK-wide framework for Technical Professionals (currently only available to workshop attendees), the first 2 elements being ‘Professional Practice’ and ‘The Student Experience’.
This is a draft first attempt to look at a holistic solution to identifying what HE Technical Professionals do, where they are (there are 5 levels) and an opportunity to consider workforce development in assessing performance as well as planning for the future in the short, medium and long term.
Ongoing Support
The PALS project team and HEaTED are here to help and support you so please contact us at any time. We will provide a web based forum for discussions and resources/information.
We are Matt Levi, Sandra Walton and Christian Carter, please do contact us about any of the above. We look forward to working with you. Matt Levi, Consultant to Higher Education, Matt Levi Development [email protected]om http://www.mattlevidevelopment.vpweb.co.uk Sandra Walton, Senior Consultant, Educational Competencies Consortium [email protected]
Christian Carter, Organisational Development Manager, University of Bristol and PFA Project [email protected]
Aims
The overall aims:
Assimilating and contributing to the vision of the project
Undertaking a review of where we are with the project's progress and making suggestions for inclusions
Critiquing the 'Professional Practice' and 'Student Experience' draft standards and providing suggestions for improvement
Developing a cascade model that you are prepared to take back to your colleagues
Taking action to engage colleagues in contributing to and rolling out an agreed model
Feeding back to the HEaTED PALS project on your findings within your own HEIs
Being pro-active in an evaluation process
Cascading the findings
Joining us in following the project through to fruition