We invite you to a webinar taking place on Thursday 23 November at 4pm organised by the Association of Colleges (AoC) and the World Federation for Colleges and Polytechnics. The webinar will generate a discussion about how scholarship could operate in colleges and the professional and technical education sector.

This webinar will examine how scholarship could operate in the professional and technical education and training sector. The webinar will be informed by the work of the Association of Colleges (AoC) and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Scholarship Project.

The Scholarship Project aims to create an evidenced-based framework to enhance scholarly activity at colleges and polytechnics. The Project is informed by Boyer’s four domains of scholarship: discovery, integration, teaching and learning and application. In the UK colleges consistently provide 8-10% of undergraduate higher education. Over the last decade, colleges have been challenged by the academic literature to improve staff scholarly activity. This literature has been echoed by formal quality reports that indicate the need for a more strategic approach to scholarly activity, in particular staff engagement and ownership, is necessary for colleges engaging in higher education.

The webinar will examine the work to date by the Higher Technical Skills group on scholarly activity at colleges and polytechnics and examine the framework designed by the project stakeholders. You can read more about the Scholarship Project here.

Nick Davy
Association of Colleges

 

John Lea
Association of Colleges

 

There will also be an update on the latest developments of the Scholarship Project, which aims to create an evidenced-based framework to enhance scholarly activity at colleges and polytechnics. The project is informed by Boyer’s four domains of scholarship: discovery, integration, teaching and learning and application. In the UK colleges consistently provide 8-10% of undergraduate higher education. Over the last decade, colleges have been challenged by the academic literature to improve staff scholarly activity. This literature has been echoed by formal quality reports that indicate the need for a more strategic approach to scholarly activity, in particular staff engagement and ownership, is necessary for colleges engaging in higher education.

Please register to join the webinar here. 

For further information on the Scholarship Project, please visit the Scholarship Project’s website or follow AoC on twitter: @aoc_info.

Kind regards,

The Scholarship Project team