Sally Brown

On Monday 14 July I was working again at South Bank University with colleagues applying for Principal Fellowships with the HEA and looking to maximise their  chances long term  of achieving National Teaching Fellowships South Bank (598 downloads) , UKPSF slides (598 downloads) UKPSF grid (512 downloads) . Then I travelled up last night to Milton Keynes to work today  with colleagues at the Open University on their New Models of Assessment and Tuition project. What an honour to be working with the OU on assessment as I cite them worldwide as  an organisation worth emulating for their systematic and holistic approaches to curriculum design, student support and assessment! The slides I used are here: OU Assessment Strategy slides (658 downloads)

And today we speculate on the implications of the cabinet reshuffle and  potential replacements for David Willets who in my view did some dreadful things particularly around the shift from Widening  Participation to Fair Access but at least cared deeply about higher education.

It’s an exciting week for us: last night on Channel 4, Utopia2 produced by my BAFTA-winning niece Bekki Wray Rogers (very proud!) was screened and on Thursday, Phil and I fly to Chile to work with the Catholic University of Santiago. Yippee !

Today I am working with the senior staff of Nottingham Trent University whose senior staff have all committed to working on their UKPSF Principal Fellowships of the HEA. Today’s sessions are one-to-one follow-ups on the workshop held in June   Well done to the whole group for working so hard on their drafts.

Today and tomorrow I am at the amazing Down Hall in Bishop Stortford working with the faculty of Science and Technology on improving their assessment strategies. The main slides are here: ARU 2 and 3 July (495 downloads)

After a lovely holiday in Portugal  and a quick trip to Brighton (see Twitter feed for picture of me swimming at Hove) this week I am working with Anglia Ruskin and Napier University, advancing Senior and Principal Fellowships of the HEA, and claims for NTFS. I will also be working with ARU colleagues on strategic improvements to assessment. (see presentations for w/b 9th June and earlier). The slides relating to applying for NTFS at ARU are here: NTFS slides ARU (575 downloads)

I am working today again at Anglia Ruskin University with Margaret Price of Oxford Brookes, taking forward ARU’s ‘Transforming Assessment’ project. Thanks to everyone who came to work with us this glorious sunny morning. This afternoon we are working with course leaders on their future enhancement plans.

Today I am working at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent university where 12 colleagues are working hard writing their Principal Fellowship applications. The slides I am using are here UKPSF slides (598 downloads) as is a diagram of the UKPSF  on a page best printed as A3 in colour UKPSF grid (512 downloads) .

With a particularly beautiful view over Galway Bay visible from the Galway and Mayo Institute of Technology campus, it’s a real pleasure for Phil and I to be here contributing to their Staff Development Week. My workshops are all focusing on aspects of assessment and the slides for all the sessions are here. First Year (476 downloads) , Streamlining (1079 downloads) , Programme level (511 downloads) , Integrating assessment (547 downloads) “If you ever go across the sea to Galway…”

Today’s sessions at South Bank University were explaining the NTFS application process  (slides here: South Bank (598 downloads) ) and acting as external to their ACHIEVE scheme awarding UKPSF Fellowships. Thanks to Ruth Brown and Tom Hall for making me so welcome.

Today in Carmarthen, Trinity St David University of Wales.  I will be working with university and college staff on a whole day thinking about assessment. My slides are here. Trinity, Carmarthen (1123 downloads) . It’s a long way from Newcastle but well worth the journey. I’m flying home on Wednesday and then getting excited about the SEDA conference in Newcastle on Thursday and Friday where I will be presenting some of my thoughts on global pedagogies, drawing on the 35 good practice accounts from round the world I am including in my new book for Palgrave due out in February next year.