KIS Development Work Hannah Pudner Senior Policy Adviser, HEFCE

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KIS Development Work Hannah PudnerSenior
Policy Adviser, HEFCE
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Consultation event
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KIS Development work

• Key Questions
• Not all of the information items are currently
  gathered in the form proposed for the KIS, how
  should these be handled?
• What processes will institutions need to go
  through to collect this data?
• How would prospective students like this data to
  be presented?

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Expert Working Groups and the Pilot Phase
Expert working groups
1. Learning, teaching and assessment methods 2.
Professional accreditation 3. Accommodation
costs
Seven institutions Processes of collecting data
items A mix of courses, 20 Costs and resources
Pilot phase
Outcomes and conclusions will input into final
recommendations
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• Learning and teaching methods
• Proportion of time spent
• formal scheduled teaching
• independent study
• directed activities (including online and group
  work)
• Placements
• Assessment methods
• Proportion of assessment
• Written exams
• Coursework
• Practical exams
• Practical skills assessment (including
  professional competences)

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• Professional accreditation
• Type of recognition
• Which professional body
• a link to a definition of what this means for the
  student
• Whether dependent on module choices
• Accommodation costs
• Purpose-built accommodation
• Number of units available and average annual
  costs presented in upper and lower quartile
• Rental market  
• Average annual costs presented in the lower
  quartile and the upper quartiles
• URL link to institutions accommodation pages

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The pilots are

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• Identifying and suggesting solutions for any
  problems and challenges in managing the data
  flows to produce a KIS
• Considering the practical and technical aspects
  of the following
• From where data will be sourced
• How the data could be collated
• Whether the process may present challenges for a
  particular subject or institution type
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• Advising on the production of guidance for
  institutions on how to develop the KIS.
• Recording and reporting on the resource costs
  required to produce the KIS

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Participating institutions

• Canterbury Christ Church University
• Oxford Brookes University
• University of Exeter
• Harper Adams University College
• Sheffield Hallam University
• University of Oxford
• Loughborough College
• University College Birmingham

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User testing

• Aims to develop a distinctive identity, design
  and language suited to potential and current HE
  students
• How information will be presented
• Solution that will integrate with institutional
  web-sites
• Completed in early March 2011

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Other developments

• Enhanced salary information
• Unistats, August 2011
• Key information Sets
• Addition of graduate contribution

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www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/qual/public/infoset.htm

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