The Directors of Student Education Forum
The Forum aims to be an informal network that regularly brings together DSEs from across campus to:
- create a DSE community
- share experiences
- discuss topical issues
- disseminate good practice.
Organising Committee
- Suzanne Hallam (School of Sociology and Social Policy)
- Simon Lightfoot (POLIS)
- Margit Messmer (Mathematics)
- Deborah Murdoch-Eaton (School of Medicine)
- Alistair Norman (LUBS)
- Dayananda Palihawadana (Marketing, LUBS)
- Chris Butcher (SDDU)
Future meetings
Students’ Personal development Thursday 26 April 2012
Blended / technology enhanced learning Thursday 24 May 2012
Previous meetings
Curriculum project: implementation - 28 February 2012
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What is happening in secondary schooling? - 7 December 2011
Related resources:
The New Undergraduate - Skills and Experience; they are not like we were!
Neil Clephen, Head, Roundhay School, Leeds
University Learning and Teaching Conference, Friday January 11 2008
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NSS: sharing what has worked & what has not - 28 October 2011
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Pro-Deans/Directors of Student Education Event - 7 October 2011
- Agenda
- Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Education's presentation (Prof. Vivien Jones)
- Institutional Review (Dr K Hodgson)
- Leeds for Life Update (Mr D Gardner)
- External Examiners (Mrs K Swan)
- Peer Observation of Teaching (Dr C Davies)
- Office of Academic Appeals and Regulations: Mitigating Circumstances (Dr C A G Brooks)
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Curriculum Enhancement Project - 30 June, 2011
The Curriculum Enhancement Project has reached an important stage as consultations are planned / taking place on several aspects. This was a chance to have you say and help define the future shape of the curriculum at Leeds.
The Forum:
- provided an overview on where the project is so far and look ahead to activities for 2011/12
- invited comments on the current proposals to change the structure of the academic year
- took feedback on the thinking about curriculum mapping for Research led Teaching
- shared the outcomes of the consultation on broadening and provide an opportunity for discussion on the emerging broadening strands.
Set 1 of slides || Set 2 of slides
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Curriculum Enhancement Project - 24 March, 2011
Project website || PowerPoint presentation
What was covered in this session:
- bring participants up to speed with the latest developments on the project; what’s been agreed and what’s coming up for further consultation
- inform about the principles and drivers for any changes to the structure of the academic year and invite participants to think about what a new structure might look like
- share more developed models for broadening the curriculum and get the participants' views on how these might work within and beyond their discipline
Student Services Processes Project
Programme & curriculum development 1 - 7/12/2010
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HE Academy - 24/10/2010
You may know the HE Academy because you are Fellow of the Academy, or you use a Subject Centre or you know about the National Teaching Fellowship scheme (NTF) that they administer, or have used one of their range of useful resources / been on one of their events.
David Sadler, Director Networks, is a member of the executive team at the Academy and he lead this session. For more details about David see his webpage.
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Action plans - 21/10/2010
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AQST annual meeting - 6/10/2010
Agenda
Institutional Overview (Prof. Vivien Jones) Leeds for Life (David Gardner)
Curriculum Enhancement Project (Caroline Letherland)
Office of Academic Appeals & Regulation (Dr. Andrew Brooks)
Universal Programme And Module Catalogues Project (UPMCP) (Ian Elston)
SDDU L&T Team update (Chris Butcher)
SDDU L&T Team Update and JISC Building Capacity Project (Chris Butcher and Karen Llewellyn)
Graduate Employability (Bob Gilworth)
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Student Processes Project - 7/7/2010
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Monitoring attendance - 29/6/2010
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Mitigating circumstances - 18/3/2010
A chance to hear from, and discuss issues with, Andrew Brookes, Heads of the Office of Academic Appeals and Regulation (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/AAandR/). Andrew is a regular and very popular contributor to the Forum.

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Find out more about the new transformational project to refresh the undergraduate curriculum at Leeds. Project manager, Caroline Letherland, will introduce the project and invite your feedback on some early thinking in relation to key academic principles which will inform future curriculum development.
Masters level - 8/12/2009
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Leading L&T at School level - 8/10/2009
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AQST Annual meeting - 29/9/2009
Inspire our students
AQST Overview
Learning & Teaching Priorities
Response to the 2008 QAA Institutional Audit
Universal Programme and Module Catalogue (UPMC)
SAER assessment trends
Code of Practice on Assessment for Students on Taught Programmes
Space2Learn
Managing Change in the Curriculum - 16/12/2008
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AQST annual meeting - 3/10/2008
Agenda
AQST Overview
Introduction
Leeds for Life
Looking forward
Outcomes from QAA Audit
QAA Update
Review Process
Technology in Teaching
UPMC
University Strategic Priorities 2008
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Avoiding trouble: being on the right side of the regulations - 1/10/2008
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The Study Year Abroad and the Placement Year - 6/5/2008
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Transition from school to university - 17/3/2008
PowerPoint slides from the meeting - Vivien Jones, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Learning and Teaching
Collaboration & Plagiarism - 11/12/2007
Use the Flash player below to listen to several audio recordings from this event. If you have difficulties accessing the content, contact us.
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Social networking sites e.g. Facebook - 27/9/2007
PowerPoint slides from the meeting
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Appeals process - 5/5/2007
Guest Speaker: Dr Andrew Brookes, Head, Office of Academic Appeals & Regulation
PowerPoint slides from the meeting
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Career pathways in Learning and Teaching - 2/4/2007
Guest Speaker: Professor Steve Scott, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Staff & Students
Learning and Teaching issues at Leeds - 11/12/2006
Guest Speaker: Professor Vivien Jones, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Learning and Teaching
