HERDSA Notices 30 November 2016

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* 10 years of curriculum initiatives in higher education in Australia - please help. 
* Call for contributions to a Special Issue on Threshold Concepts in Health and Social Care
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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10 years of curriculum initiatives in higher education in Australia - please help. 

Dear Colleagues,

As part of a paper I am preparing for the coming HERDSA Conference, I am attempting to review all that has occurred in Australia in relation to curriculum in higher education over the past ten years. I am systematically checking all publically available institutional websites. To support this approach, I would be grateful if any of you from institutions where some curriculum initiative (other than individual subject or course curriculum design exercises, unless these form part of an identifiable institutional approach) has occurred, could email me just a sentence or two, or a web address, outlining the initiative. In your response please indicate any information that needs to remain confidential. Such confidentiality will be strictly observed. Responses before Christmas would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Owen Hicks, Emeritus Professor UWA, HERDSA life member and past president, currently on volunteer assignment in Vietnam. Please respond to: ohicks@iinet.net.au

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Call for contributions to a Special Issue on Threshold Concepts in Health and Social Care
Deadline: 23 January 2017 

The open access International Journal of Practice-based Learning in Health and Social Care is planning a special issue on Threshold Concepts in Health and Social Care. It will explore how threshold concepts are being put to use in health and social care education, to foster the capabilities required in professional practice. For more about the journal see http://e-learning.coventry.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pblh/index

Timeline

  • Closing date for submission of 300 word abstracts: 23 January 2017
  • Short-listed authors notified: 27 March 2017
  • Deadline for submission of full articles: 31 July 2017
  • Publication March 2018

Please submit abstracts and queries to l.martindale@dundee.ac.uk

Submissions should focus on how threshold concepts theory has advanced or contributed to practice-oriented educational activities and they may be about either learning for practice, or learning based in practice. The main themes for the special edition will be:

  • Ways in which threshold concepts can inform understanding about how students become practitioners in their chosen profession
  • Thresholds associated with practice placements and practice-based learning
  • Ways in which thresholds theory may inform development of curricula in health and social care.

The special edition will include the following types of articles:

  • Research or conceptual articles will be up to 5000 words and should present original research or theoretical work in the area. A common structure for these is introduction, background, research design, findings / results, discussion and conclusion, but this is flexible.
  • Reflective or discussion pieces should be no longer than 1000 words and give a reflective or discursive narrative that explores an aspect of threshold concepts in health and social care in the practice context 
  • Masterclasses may be up to 4500 words and should include introduction, background literature, methodology/principles, discussion, conclusion and key messages. Masterclasses will present expert and detailed guidance on a particular aspect of threshold concepts and should demonstrate depth of understanding, rigour and originality.

Any work submitted for publication should be original and not have been published or be under review elsewhere. All abstracts will be reviewed by the editorial team. Subsequently, the full articles will be reviewed anonymously by two referees.

High quality articles that are not accepted for the special edition may be accepted for publication in a regular publication of the International Journal of Practice-based Learning in Health and Social Care, at the discretion of the journal’s editorial board.

Further information http://e-learning.coventry.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pblh/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScope 

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Higher Education in the Headlines

UQ tops Asia 100 ranking | JULIE HARE | Australian Higher Eduction | 30 November, 2016
The University of Queensland has topped a radical new Asia-specific ranking.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/uq-tops-asia-100-ranking/news-story/2a7c6d5e4cc370849518d5f67b0e8c6c

The Myth of the Sports Scholarship | Brad Wolverton | Chronicle of Higher Eduction | 25 November, 2016
Allison Goldblatt and her family believed that her elite status as a swimmer would pay her way at the college of her choice. But they found out the truth.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Myth-of-the-Sports/238453

UK ‘modelling significant cut’ in overseas student numbers | John Morgan | Times Higher Eduction | 24 November, 2016
Directly linking non-EU recruitment to award levels in teaching assessment has also been under consideration, sources suggest
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-modelling-significant-cut-overseas-student-numbers