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What do we do?Advancing and supporting good practice in Teaching
and Learning in EducationESCalate produces and disseminates
resources for staff and students in: HE and HE in FE, for
example:Education Studies, Continuing Education,Lifelong Learning,
Initial Teacher Education/ PGCE.
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ESCalate structureHE Academy Network in York: 24 Subject Centres
ESCalate based at GSoE, University of Bristol Network of academic
consultants and associates across the UKDepartmental links and
contacts plus ESCalate members and / or registered colleagues -
open to all!
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Todays ESCalate team Anne Anderson
Julie Hughes
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ESCalate website key source of information:Resources including
teaching support, reports, research findings, academic papers and
evaluationsOnline membership / registrationE-submission of funding
bidsExternal Examiner online registerOnline event
registrationAutomated book reviews, electronic bulletins and
e-newsletters
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Recent ESCalate statisticsRegistered colleagues/ members:
3271
338 active contacts within institutions, with 348 further people
offering to be contacts
224 registered External Examiners - with an additional 423
potential External Examiners
HoDs: 406
49 registered on the Expertise ExchangeWebsite: receiving 10,000
hits a day
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ESCalate - across the worldAustralia,Cambodia,Canada,
Dubai,Ethiopia, Finland, France,Holland, Hong KongIndia,
Jordan,Kuala Lumpur, Nigeria, Pakistan,Portugal, South Africa,
Sultanate of Oman, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey,United States,West Indies
etc.
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Resources
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Changes to grant funding 2009-10ESCalate offers awards for
development of teaching and learning, pedagogic research, and
resources; Awards offered to those in Education departments in
universities and FE Colleges providing HE level programmes;Awards
range from 50 to 15k;
Thematic, lasts one year, based on national and discipline
priorities in all four administrations of the UK. These are large
awards requiring collaboration across institutions and across
countries of UKOpen, several types, with applicants proposing their
own focus.
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Thematic and open awardsThematicStudent wellbeing (2 x 10k
max)21st Century teacher educator (2 x 15k max)OpenHot Topics (50)
individual award to promote discussion of an important current
issueSharing Ideas (500) for dissemination of good ideas and
interesting practiceStudent award (from 200-1000) for supporting
individual or group learning Pedagogy and practice (up to 5k) for
development activity by individual or group
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Everything is on line, including: guidance, FAQs, (EoI) form
(Expression of Interest) where required, full proposal
form;Applicants must first register online with ESCalate;Where bids
go to external evaluators, we receive an independent recommendation
on whether to make an award;Themed awards application has two
stages, first the EoI, and for successful applicants, a second
stage full proposal;For bids over 1k, milestones, targets and
expenditure details are required; For bids over 1k successful
applicants receive a formal offer which needs to be signed by an
institutional finance officer;Payments of larger awards are phased
through the life of the project, against completion of agreed
outputs with payments made on receipt of an invoice;For Hot Topics,
Sharing Ideas, and Student Awards, the application and payment
processes are simplified and kept to a minimum.
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Additional ESCalate activity includes:Leading HEA funded
Internationalisation project across all centres with Languages
SCEmployability module online for students and staffIncreasing
Subject Centre Collaboration especially re: the Every Child Matters
agenda e.g. the ICS-HE projectWork with CETLs and others
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So, please do consider getting involved by:Attending further
ESCalate linked or run events; Write a book review;Write articles
for the Bulletin/ Newsletter; Apply for project funding for
yourself or with a studentSet up a SIG (special interest group) for
online discussion etc.
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Contact details
Any feedback or queries re ESCalate itself and how it could
support your work, Email:[email protected]
Thank you.
