Progression to Higher Education Flexible Progression Routes

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Progression to Higher Education Flexible
Progression Routes
Maurice Gledhill
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First and higher degree opportunities

• BA Professional Studies
• BA Professional Dance Development (Currently in
  production)
• MA Leadership and Management

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Flexible routesSome typical features

• Students
• diverse backgrounds
• differing needs
• The workplace
• central to assessment
• supports the learning
• The learning
• academically rigorous and applied

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BA Professional StudiesWhat is it?

• A one-year top-up BA, designed particularly
  around the needs of holders of work-based
  foundation degrees.
• Study is based around each participants Personal
  Learning Action Plan.

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Suitable for FD graduates in
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Modules in the BA Professional Studies

• Research methods and key themes such as
  leadership managing change critical thinking
  and interpersonal skills.
• Reflection on practice including the development
  of the Personal Learning Action Plan
• Projects

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Personal Learning Manager

• Helping participants to develop
• personal learning objectives in line with generic
  programme outcomes
• suitable topics for projects
• a strategy on accessing relevant texts
• their critical thinking skills
• links with sources of appropriate specialist help
  
• an appreciation of their progress at each stage

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Workplace Mentor

• Helping participants to develop
• ideas for projects which integrate with business
  objectives
• contacts within their organisation as necessary
• an understanding of organisational systems and
  procedures
• their own ideas via listening and probing

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BA Professional Dance Development

• Subject to validation
• complements the more practical FD with a more
  theoretical approach
• Psychology of dance
• Sociology of dance
• Research methods
• A project

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MA Leadership and Management

• Fully integrated with workplace activity, issues
  and learning.
• Based on action learning sets
• Projects
• Reflective portfolio
• Dissertation

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Workshop Venue From SeptemberHigh Wycombe Campus
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Discussion

• What might be the key features of the student
  experience in these flexible routes?
• Work-life balance issues?
• Time management?
• Individualised learning, in community?
• Exposing weaknesses?
• Filling the gaps?
• Learning from one another?
• ?

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Contact
maurice.gledhill_at_bucks.ac.uk
Maurice Gledhill Faculty of Enterprise and
Innovation, School of SLAT Room M3
Buckinghamshire New University Wellesbourne
Campus Kingshill Road High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire HP13 5BB Office 01494 522141
Ext 4035 Mobile [phone]