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KIS Development Work Hannah Pudner Senior Policy Adviser, HEFCE

KIS Development Work Hannah Pudner Senior Policy Adviser, HEFCE. Public Information for Higher Edcation Consultation event. KIS Development work. Key Questions: Not all of the information items are currently gathered in the form proposed for the KIS, how should these be handled?

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KIS Development Work Hannah Pudner Senior Policy Adviser, HEFCE

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  1. KIS Development Work Hannah PudnerSenior Policy Adviser, HEFCE Public Information for Higher Edcation Consultation event

  2. KIS Development work Key Questions: • Not all of the information items are currently gathered in the form proposed for the KIS, how should these be handled? • What processes will institutions need to go through to collect this data? • How would prospective students like this data to be presented?

  3. Expert Working Groups and the Pilot Phase: Expert working groups 1. Learning, teaching and assessment methods 2. Professional accreditation 3. Accommodation costs Seven institutions Processes of collecting data items A mix of courses, 20% Costs and resources Pilot phase Outcomes and conclusions will input into final recommendations

  4. Learning and teaching methods Proportion of time spent: • formal scheduled teaching • independent study • directed activities (including online and group work) • Placements Assessment methods Proportion of assessment: • Written exams • Coursework • Practical exams • Practical skills assessment (including professional competences)

  5. Professional accreditation • Type of recognition • Which professional body • a link to a definition of what this means for the student • Whether dependent on module choices Accommodation costs Purpose-built accommodation • Number of units available & and average annual costs presented in upper and lower quartile Rental market   • Average annual costs presented in the lower quartile and the upper quartiles • URL link to institution’s accommodation pages

  6. The pilots are: • Identifying and suggesting solutions for any problems and challenges in managing the data flows to produce a KIS • Considering the practical and technical aspects of the following: • From where data will be sourced • How the data could be collated • Whether the process may present challenges for a particular subject or institution type • Advising on the production of guidance for institutions on how to develop the KIS. • Recording and reporting on the resource costs required to produce the KIS

  7. Participating institutions • Canterbury Christ Church University • Oxford Brookes University • University of Exeter • Harper Adams University College • Sheffield Hallam University • University of Oxford • Loughborough College • University College Birmingham

  8. User testing • Aims to develop a distinctive identity, design and language suited to potential and current HE students • How information will be presented • Solution that will integrate with institutional web-sites • Completed in early March 2011

  9. Other developments • Enhanced salary information: • Unistats, August 2011 • Key information Sets • Addition of graduate contribution

  10. www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/qual/public/infoset.htm Public Information for Higher Education Consultation event

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