Higher Education Academy

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Higher Education Academy

• HEALTH Network
• (Higher Education Academy Learning and Teaching
  in Health)
• Federation of 2 Subject Centres
• Health Sciences and Practice
• Medicine, Dentistry Veterinary Medicine

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Health Sciences Practice Subject Centre

• aims to
• promote the development of
• good practices in health care
• through enhancing the quality of
• learning, teaching and assessment,
  
  
• both in higher education institutions
  
• and in practice based education

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Advisory Board
Centre DirectorProf Catherine Geissler Academic
DirectorDr Margaret Sills Administrator
Marketing Manager Stevie Robinson Senior
Learning and Teaching Adviser Helen Bulpitt
Learning and Teaching Adviser Irja Haapala CETL
Liaison IPE Manager Dr Marion Helme CETL
Liaison IPE Project Officer Nikos
Skizas Information Communication Technology
ManagerKwansuree Jiamton Technical
Officers Chakkapas Visavakul Panu
Kwansuwan Centre Secretary Rosie Cannon
Subject Advisers
Key Contacts
Learning and Teaching Consultants
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Network 2005-2006
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Learning and Teaching Consultants 2005-2006

• Assessment
• Evaluation and Educational Research
• Employability
• Ethics and Legal aspects of healthcare
• Flexible modes of learning
• Interprofessional education
• Life long learning, work based learning CPD
• Mental Health
• Widening Participation Inclusivity
• England
• Scotland
• Wales

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Community-wide engagement 2005 -2006
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Mini-projects 2005 - 2006
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Activities 2005-2006

• Newsletter (termly)
• Publications Occasional papers
• Ebulletin (monthly)
• Website
• JISCmail discussion fora
• Special Interest Groups
• Workshops and meetings e.g. Maths, Festival of
  learning
• Research and development e.g. Mini-project grants
• National initiative support (Employability, CETLs
  FDTL4, Teaching Public health Networks, childhood
  studies, Lecturers in Practice)
• Collaboration with other Centres Triple/ EIPEN
  (IPE), mhhe,
• Student essay competition

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Website 2005-2006
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Special Interest Groups (SIG) 2005-2006

• Critical reflection
• Employability (forthcoming)
• Ethics teaching
• Foundation degrees in AHPs
• Interprofessional Education
• Mental Health in Higher Education
• Placement Education
• Problem Based Learning

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International 2005-2006

• EIPEN (16 partners in Finland, Greece, Hungary,
  Poland, Sweden, UK)
• InterED
• Towards Unity for Health
• DOPSE TEMPUS (Pharmacy Education in Cairo)
• Dutch Digital University / UCE (Virtual Ward)
• Academy promotion in Sydney the Middle East

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Finance 2005-2006

2006-2007 Core budget
667,577