Presentations from the day
Sean O'Reilly, Data Analyst, Technological Higher Education Association
This presentation is an overview of the key points outlined in the full Colloquium 2019 Discussion Paper. This paper explores the challenges facing technological higher education institutions in relation to courses offered at levels 6 and 7. Based on statistical data from the Central Applications Office, the demand and take-up of courses at levels 6 and 7 are analysed and presented in a single paper designed to spark a strategic discussion among education stakeholders around the future of levels 6 and 7 in higher education institutions.
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Conor Moss Group Director, Business Engagement, Skills and Employability, Sheffield Hallam University
Degree or bust - the maturation and saturation of the English Higher Education system
Conor Moss presents the experience in Britain of demand and take-up of short cycle programmes in higher education institutions
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Andrew Brownlee, Executive Director, Strategy & Knowledge, SOLAS
A perspective from the further education and training system.
Andrew Brownlee presented the Further Education perspective on short cycle and first cycle provision, and how FE-HE transitions are critical to their future development
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Valerie Harvey, Head of Performance Evaluation, Higher Education Authority
The Graduate Outcomes Survey. Class of 2017
Valerie Harvey interrogates the research conducted by the Higher Education Authority on graduate outcomes specifically in relation to levels 6 and 7 graduates from technological higher education institutions
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Deirdre Creedon, Access Officer, CIT
CIT/FE Colleges Initiative
Deirdre Creedon and Helen Ryan, Principal, Cork College of Commerce, presented on CIT's FE Colleges Initiative.
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