University of Greenwich School of Health

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University of GreenwichSchool of Health Social
Care

• Credit for Learning Centre
• Linda Thorne Heather Spittles

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Aims of School of Health Social Care

• Provides vocationally related programmes
• Equip students with skills for employment
  lifelong learning
• Serves South East London Kent
• Is committed to equal opportunities
• Promotes collaboration internally and externally
• Promotes excellence in teaching
• Striving to expand research consultancy

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Partnership Activities

• Formal contracts with 17 NHS Trusts in SE London,
  Kent Medway
• Many links with voluntary independent health
  social care sectors
• Contribute to service reform improvement
• Curriculum development
• Foundation degrees
• Post graduate portfolio of programmes
• Professional regulatory body accreditation

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Partnership Activities

• Providing advice, support quality monitoring
  for a diverse range of local national
  organisations, developing curriculum for credit
  rating by the University
• Responding to the government agendas to develop
  increased awareness specialist skills for
  professionals in a range of areas e.g. sexual
  health mobility

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Continuing Professional Development Lifelong
Learning

• Recognition that learning takes place outside
  formal institutional structures
• may comprise
• Participation in in-house/formal courses or
  training programmes provided by an employer,
  professional body or specific interest group/s
• Personal work based experience
• Informal Workshops

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Credit Rating

• Credit rating is the process by which the
  University makes a judgement about the volume and
  level of academic credit which can be allocated
  to structured learning derived from formal
  courses or training programmes offered by
  organisations external to the University.
• This is a rigorous process to ensure
  comparability with University run courses

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Credit Rating

• Individuals who successfully complete
• external activities that are credit rated are
• awarded the relevant amount of academic
• credit, and can apply to have this counted
• towards a programme of study at the
• University.

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Accreditation of Prior Learning

• APCL
• Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning
  sometimes known as credit transfer
• Credit claimed by individuals for learning that
  has been formally assessed

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Accreditation of Prior Learning

• APEL
• Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning
• Credit claimed by individuals for learning that
  has not been formally assessed and is usually in
  the form of a portfolio, as evidence of learning
  from experience

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Credit Rating Process

• Informal discussion regarding suitability of a
  course for credit rating
• Completion of a questionnaire
• Decision to proceed

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Credit Rating Process

• Advice support for course development and
  documentation
• Submission of course documentation to credit
  rating panel
• Approved with/without conditions
• Ongoing Quality Monitoring of course and student
  work