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6.3 Staff Potential & Performance
6.3.1 Human Resource Strategy
• The College will continue to build on its strong position in relation to the qualifications and skills that are present in the lecturer workforce, through initial teacher education and continual professional development. • The successful delivery of a range of new and emerging curriculum of Youth Training and Apprenticeships will require an innovate approach to ensure that the knowledge and skills of our lecturers are both relevant and up to date. As a prerequisite to maintaining high quality provision, lecturer industrial and vocational expertise will be updated to ensure that the College remains responsive to the ever-changing working practices and advances in technology. SRC will develop an appropriately resourced plan that will provide lecturers with suitable, structured industrial placements. • The College will also participate in the WorldSkills Centre of Excellence initiative aimed at embedding best practice coaching and mentoring within a number of areas aligned to sector Curriculum Hubs. • Over the lifetime of the strategy, the College’s Employee Development Committee (EDC) will oversee a programme of work that aims to promote and nurture a culture of innovation in teaching and learning excellence driven by high expectations across all Faculties.
6.2.2 Quality & Pedagogy
At the heart of the Southern Regional College’s core values is the pursuit of excellence in all aspects of College operations. Under the guidance of the EDC, the Quality and Pedagogy Unit (QPU) continues to play a significant role in supporting a number of key initiatives in the pursuit of excellence in all aspects of the learner and the lecturer journey.
The QPU is committed to providing CPD support to all lecturing staff; to enable them to deliver to the highest quality learning and teaching experience for all learners, actively employing innovative pedagogy, using up-todate Technology Enhanced Learning and student support systems. The burgeoning QPU team comprising a PBL and TEL Manager, PBL Officers and a team of Teaching and Learning Advisors aims to:
• Deliver a College wide approach to teaching and learning outstanding practice where lecturing staff will feel empowered, across all delivery modalities, to seek the support and assistance of others, in pursuit of improving the learning experience for all learners;
• Encourage and nurture a commitment across all areas of the College to effective continuous self-evaluation and improvement planning, aligned to the ETI IQ:RS and QAA Higher Education
Quality Code Frameworks. The student voice remains integral to the self-evaluation and quality improvement process review; and
• Support all professional and technical areas to respond with the highest ambition and standards to external stakeholder requirements such as
ETI, awarding organisations, higher education institutions (HEI) & professional and regulatory statutory bodies (PRSB).
We will:
• Develop and support our staff to deliver relevant and engaging practice-oriented learning experiences, enabled by new and innovative learning technologies to respond positively to all internal and external requirements.
We will achieve this by:
• Developing and implementing an appropriately resourced plan for lecturers’ industrial placements. • Supporting all new lecturing staff through the completion of the Ulster University CIT/PGCE. • Supporting the development of a multidisciplinary approach to curriculum innovation in Project Based
Learning, programme design and delivery. • Providing technical and pedagogical training and support for technology enhanced learning solutions including blended learning. • Delivering a range of teaching and learning programmes including: » Teaching 4 Learning and other bespoke CPD support programmes; » Assessor training on observation skills aligned to ETI performance levels; » Verifier awards; and » QAA Higher Education Quality Code. • Promoting and disseminating best practice in the pedagogy of teaching and learning with particular emphasis on PBL, innovation, enterprise, and creativity.
Measures
• Successful outcomes from all CPD activity. • Outstanding programme of study KPI’s. • Learner feedback. • Embedded PBL culture. • Recognised digital staff and learner culture. • Positive external stakeholder feedback.
