SEEC Professional Development Seminars 2010-2011

In the academic year 2010-2011, SEEC ran one professional development event:

Introduction to Credit and Credit Frameworks, June 2nd 2011.

This workshop was designed for staff working in HE, FE, Awarding Organisations, Sector Skills Councils and Professional Associations who are new or relatively new to credit, credit frameworks and their uses.   

The programme consisted of a presentation on the Credit and the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) by Angela Joyce, Senior Manager for Policy and Strategy at the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency. Her presentation included the role of the QCF in the light of the recent Wolf Review of Vocational Qualifications, the architecture of the framework and its relationship to other qualification frameworks. There was an opportunity to ask questions following the presentation.

Dr Mark Atlay, Director of Teaching and Learning, University of Bedfordshire and currently the chair of SEEC took people through the different qualification frameworks including those operating in Europe and the role of credit and academic levels in defining learners’ achievements. There was an interactive session exploring the language of the SEEC level descriptors as well as a practical exercise, which asked delegates to assess the credit value and level of learning from a range of course profiles.

Documents related to the event can be downloaded below.  Our thanks are due to the professional colleagues who have prepared the material and given their permission for its use on the SEEC website. Please respect the intellectual copyright of the authors of the papers attached here, and please make proper reference to them if you use the material for academic purposes, including for teaching and research. 

If you have any enquiries, please get in touch on office@seec.org.uk