Advanced Professional Standards in Higher Education Diploma

Advanced Professional Standards in Higher Education Diploma

18 Hours Course
Multiple 2024 dates (Face-to-face and Online)

Certificate of completion from Queen Mary University of London

Today’s academics have a moral and professional obligation to themselves, their students and the general public to remain up to date in their fields of practice, and to adopt evidence-based practice and quality improvement. They must also act with integrity and put in place continuing professional development, acknowledge their shortcomings and learn from their mistakes so they continue to meet their obligations in the rapidly evolving regulatory environment. Usually their work is dependent on others in their teams, organisations and wider society.

The course Throughout the ASDP we have mapped each of the teaching workshops to the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk).

This course has been designed to introduce participants to systematic reflective practice and continuous improvement by adopting a learning approach and essential skills to listen, and take time to think. The course is designed in line with the top professional standards and guidelines of the United Kingdom Higher Education Advanced Professional Standards Framework.

The course will provide academic staff across the Higher Education (HE) institutions (universities, colleges and research institutes) particularly in the Post Covid-19 global pandemic with tools to engage positively and co-produce ways of working that meet the needs of service delivery and wider society. The tools introduced will help augment current organisation and professional practices in a time efficient manner. At the end of the course attendees should be able to put in place their daily, weekly, monthly and annual rhythms of reflections, appraisal and documentation to help achieve their own career goals, work-life balance, and better outcomes for their patients and services.

In today's world, HE institutions must confront new realities rapidly manifesting themselves in a diversely complex and fast-changing world. Business as usual will not suffice. HE institutions need to be expansively re-focused in order to become more sensitive and responsive to its mission of developing graduates who, in addition to conventional graduate training, are also able to fight the intellectual battle for self-confidence and self-assertion as equal players in the global and intensely competitive knowledge economy. There will be great focus in the course on issues to do with teaching excellence including teaching quality, learning environment, staff continuous professional development and other important issues relating to student support and career development.

This professional development course will help advance academics within their HE institutions, and help organisations develop their academic leaders. It will show the benefit in embracing such an approach, which benefits both the academic staff and their HE institutions, by delivering evidence-based strategies, skills development and education that help academics at various stages of their academic careers step into and succeed in leadership positions. It is important however to consider this course as a complementary piece to the different guidance and mentoring packages provided by your HE institution where appropriate and structured support is also available internally.