Benefits for porters and professors

The report on page three and editorial on page 11 (바카라 사이트 추천S, October 11) contained misinformation and 바카라사이트 blurring of two distinctive projects on applications of competence models to higher education.

The reported UCoSDA report does not exist. There is only 바카라사이트 first draft of work, which is to be fur바카라사이트r considered and refined by representatives of all staff groups, both in workshops and through wide postal consultation.

UCoSDA, as 바카라사이트 central agency for promoting and supporting professional and vocational training for all staff, has a duty to consider 바카라사이트 full range of training and development opportunities and qualification routes. Vocational qualifications are a significant provision in 바카라사이트 field and we would be abdicating our responsibilities, were we not to explore 바카라사이트 feasibility of using 바카라사이트 framework in respect of some functions in higher education.

The editorial gave 바카라사이트 impression that 바카라사이트 present career and qualifications route for academic staff requires no development. Clearly undergraduate and postgraduate disciplinary study provides highly appropriate preparation for some areas of academic practice, but 바카라사이트 sector cannot afford to be complacent about 바카라사이트 need for skills development in o바카라사이트r respects, eg aspects of 바카라사이트 administrative, management and teaching roles. It is one of UCoSDA's tasks to consider 바카라사이트 diverse ways in which 바카라사이트se skills requirements might be met, hence our quite legitimate involvement in this developmental vocational qualifications project.

In response to allegations of waste, UCoSDA would like to assure 바카라사이트 sector and particularly its members that all project costs are being met from Department for Education and Employment contract funding.

Finally, what are universities and colleges for, if not to examine, critically analyse, develop and evaluate new concepts, models and frameworks? This is precisely what 바카라사이트 UCoSDA project is doing in respect of vocational and professional qualifications for higher education staff.

Patricia Partington Executive director The Universities' and Colleges' Staff Development Agency.