Other CETLs

ALPS

Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) is a collaborative programme between five Higher Education Institutions with proven reputations for excellence in learning and teaching in health and social care: the University of Bradford, the University of Huddersfield, the University of Leeds (lead); Leeds Metropolitan University, and York St John University. There are 16 professions across the partnership from Audiology to Social Work, and a wide range of partners including the Strategic Health Authorities, clinical networks and professional bodies.

Funded CETLS

Link to all 74 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning that will be established in 2005 using HEFCE funding.

4E CETL for Clinical and Communication Skills

This collaboration between two institutions in an established strategic alliance, will enhance communication and clinical skills in students from five healthcare disciplines. It has grown from a shared clinical skills facility where staff are recognised nationally and internationally for groundbreaking work in helping students acquire and continuously improve professional practice skills. It will now extend beyond this, offering new opportunities for students to learn and practise in a safe environment at their own pace. Rigorous, fair assessment and stronger links with the NHS, supported by the development of the mobile ‘Skills Bus’ will be additional benefits. The students' experience will encourage lifelong learning skills and reflection in practice, preparing them for careers as tomorrow's health care professionals.

LIVE! Centre for Excellence in Lifelong and Independent Veterinary Education

The LIVE! vision is a fundamental transformation of the veterinary and allied professions, ensuring future generations will be lifelong independent learners from induction to retirement. LIVE! is focused on successful completion by all students of the important switch from pedagogical to andragogical learning modes which is a feature of effective tertiary education. Through computer-aided learning, new veterinary clinical skills laboratories, and communication skills courses, LIVE! will promote coherent, incremental professional skills acquisition. Targeted initially on veterinary students at the Royal Veterinary College and Liverpool University, the project will quickly extend to related degree programmes, including Veterinary Nursing and Veterinary Physiotherapy.

Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health

The Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health at Birmingham University builds on the University's established record in mental health education. It aims to develop a dynamic and collaborative partnership between six schools in the University : Education Health Sciences Medicine Public Policy Psychology Social Sciences and the mental health service user, carer, practice and policy communities. This partnership will enhance and expand the delivery, evaluation and dissemination of innovative, interdisciplinary mental health programmes within higher education and the mental health sector, nationally and internationally. Service user and carer involvement as well as e-learning, will be key features of programme development and evaluation. The CETL will actively contribute to the promotion of best practice in supporting students with mental health problems, access and complete programmes of academic study.

The AIMS Centre (Applied and Integrated Medical Sciences)

This CETL will integrate the teaching of medical sciences with clinical skills in an excellent learning environment. It will develop proven teaching approaches in anatomy, physiology and pharmacology to include state-of-the-art models, images and simulations of normal and diseased body structure and function. A major resource of web-based histology and pathology teaching material will also be created. Existing teaching space will be extended and enhanced to include a clinical anatomy and surgical training centre. New equipment and software, including computer-controlled human ‘manikins’, will be purchased and a number of staff appointments will be made.

Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS)

This CETL will ensure that students graduating from courses in Health and Social care (H&SC) are fully equipped to perform confidently and competently at the start of their professional careers. H&SC courses rely on the quality of students’ learning experiences in practice settings. The excellence already demonstrated by us within professions can be extended and disseminated across professions, providing the opportunity to learn in an interprofessional environment. Identifying generic and specific professional competences will allow us to develop work-based educators and practitioners who will confidently support students’ learning, and specifically assessment, in the workplace and across professional boundaries.

Genetics Education - Networking of Innovation and Excellence (GENIE)

This CETL builds on existing expertise and synergy between world-class science genetics education. We will lead the development of innovative approaches and establish a network of institutions engaged in teaching genetics, promoting the sharing of resources and experience. An internationally accessible database of these resources will also be assembled. Intrinsic to the philosophy is the embedding of generic skills and the application of generic approaches to broader fields, for example, biotechnology, medicine and law. Therefore the learning experience of students from a wide range of subjects will be enhanced, reflecting the broad impact of genetics on science and society.

Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Developing Professionalism in Medical Students

Through this CETL, we will further develop in our students the professional attitudes which are increasingly important in the NHS in the 21st century, better preparing them for their future careers. We will do this by: developing robust mechanisms to assess attitudes and behaviour of medical students; developing a careers advice service for medical students; underpinning the changes by developing criteria to determine excellence in clinical teachers which we would aim to have accepted nationally. The work will be appropriate for dissemination to all medical schools and to other professions - especially in health care.

Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning

The CETL will capitalise on our excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL), with Medicine and Manchester Business School being leaders in problem-based and case-based learning, and a National Teaching Fellow pioneering these approaches in humanities.The CETL will extend EBL throughout the new university, aligned with our LTA strategy and working with students as partners. We will establish a university 'hub' facility for EBL linked to four faculty 'spokes'. The hub will provide support and expertise, whilst each spoke will implement a major EBL project, reaching at least 5,000 further students overall. A programme of evaluation and research will support the CETL.

Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Mental Health and Social Work

The centre will enhance teaching quality by: continuing to develop innovative programmes of learning for practice; establishing a core capability-based curriculum, adaptable to mental health and social work, that allows workers to learn together and work together; delivering that curriculum in the workplace via team teaching and mentoring; devising strategies for student support that enhance retention and progression; making sure that other learners beyond mental health and social work professionals are influenced by the CETL's teachers to raise their own thresholds of performance in academic work and in practice.

Placement Learning in Health and Social Care

The CETL for Placement Learning in Health and Social Care aims to enhance health and social care students’ practice/placement learning. Various strands of development work relating to placement learning and teaching are planned: preparing and training staff, supporting students with disabilities, evaluating learning assessment tools, evaluating interprofessional learning opportunities, auditing and enhancing the learning context, and the role of OSCEs. Building on existing excellence, the CETL also aims to develop new multi-professional placement opportunities at the cutting edge of service in the South West including working with refugees and asylum seekers, prisoners, homeless people and carers.