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QAA Membership Podcast
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The QAA Membership Podcast series hosts discussions on some of the biggest issues facing higher education institutions.
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Awarding gaps
May 7, 202401:01:33Tap to summarizeIn this episode, our regular host Dr Kerr Castle introduces a discussion of awarding gaps and what we can do to close them. Kerr is joined by Kevin Brazant, Progression & Attainment Project Manager at the University of the Arts London, Dr Sally Andrews, Pedagogic Projects Development Manager at Staffordshire University, Professor Nicky King, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Exeter, and Professor Gabriella Cagliesi from the University of Sussex.Through the course of the conversation, they chat about approaches to addressing awarding gaps in different providers, support for staff and students (and whether we are doing enough to raise the profile of challenges around awarding gaps), and next steps for the sector.The release of this podcast coincides with the publication of the Awarding Map – a brand new resource from QAA that captures practical tools, insights and approaches that can support you to address awarding gaps across different levels within your provider. The Awarding Map is available now from the QAA website.Find out more about Gabriella's QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project, which is exploring the use of institutional data to address the causes of awarding gaps.You might also like to explore Kevin's 'Disrupt the discourse' digital toolkit and e-learning course builder, designed to aid the development of an anti-racist pedagogy.
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Apr 5, 202400:54:17Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Dr Kerr Castle introduces a discussion of how the core concepts of competence-based education compare with those of more traditional educational models and how the purposes of assessment might be reimagined through competence-based education. He is joined by Mike Ewen, the Head of the Teaching Academy at the University of Hull, along with Dr Dom Henri, Senior Lecturer in Zoology, and Dr Andrew Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Education, both also at Hull. They are members of a team that has led a QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project focused on Generating a competence-based education framework. The same team have now moved on to develop a new Collaborative Enhancement Project on A Competence-Based Assessment Framework.
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