engaging employers: models of good practice in professional education hugh mclaughlin and steven...
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Engaging Employers: Models of Good Practice in Professional
EducationHugh McLaughlin and Steven
ShardlowUniversity of Salford
PresentationSocial Work Partnership - Skills for Care and CWDC supported by GSCC
Background
Research elements and process
Early thoughts
Why involvement
What do you think?
BackgroundAn issue that arose time and again through a range of responses and that was probably the source of the most dissatisfaction on the part of agency managers, was the extent to which the courses really sought to, or indeed succeeded in, forging a genuine partnership with agencies. The absence of a “partnership approach” was evident right through from perceptions of the recruitment stage, across the design and delivery of teaching, and through to the issue of whose view would be paramount in the assessment stage.
Blewett and Tunstill, 2008: 40 Fit for Practice: The Social Work Degree – Joint Priority Review and GSCC
Research ProcessPublished and unpublished literature
Survey of employers and HEI representatives
3 nations study
International survey
Other professions
Literature759 references – 97 relevant +31 and 10
No empirical research student on student lifecycle of employer/HEI effectiveness
Small scale projects often surrounding often one aspect - practice learning or admissions
No evidence backing up employer effectiveness in social work education
Context of Three NationsWales- more prescriptive and greater steer by the Welsh Care Council e.g practice learning patterns
Scotland- fragmented
Northern –Ireland more shared approach
International
USA
Canada
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Scandinavia
Other Professions
Nursing –commissioned 4 year cycle –guaranteed placements
Teaching –TDA but individual schools
Occupational Therapy
QuestionnaireHEI https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=z7pKnavL_2b6QvjqP6GaxIog_3d_3d
Employers https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6bAdvX_2for0A9Vnnnmdg_2fnw_3d_3d
Qualifying and Post-qualifying
Development of questionnaire
Questionnaire 2Arrangements re admission numbers
Degree and levels of employer involvement in programme(s) design and delivery
Management of programme(s)
Formal agreements for practice learning
Performance targets, annual monitoring of courses
Approval of social work courses
Stakeholder arrangements
Why partnership?It’s a good thing isn’t it?
Implies a measure of equality or balance and reciprocity
For what purpose?
Which partners?
Preparation for today or tomorrow?
Who decides?
Question timeWhat do you see as the purpose for employer engagement in social work education?
What model best fits this purpose?
How could this model be facilitated or encouraged?
Endings
Report to research commissioners start of June 2009
Presented to Partnership Board and Social Work Taskforce
Recommendations yet to be written