Supporting BTEC Students Meeting
NEON Working Groups
Date
05/10/2021
Time
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Working Group focuses on sharing ideas and existing practice around supporting BTEC students, as well as research being undertaken in this space, and hope that this will lead to a more joined up approach across the sector.
This Working Group is organised by Lancaster University.
The meeting will be held online on Tuesday 5th October from 2pm to 4pm.
Please register to receive the log in details and to be able to access the meeting.
Agenda
| Time | Content | Speaker/Facilitators |
| 14:00 pm | Welcome and introductions | Chris Bayes, Group Chair |
| 14:05 pm | Update from Pearson – including details of the SFCA petition, #ProtectStudentChoice
| Ria Bhatta, Head of Stakeholder Engagement, Pearson |
| 14:30 pm | Group Breakout sessions:
1) An opportunity to brainstorm ideas and ways to raise awareness of the SFCA petition and how the NEON Group (NEON are a coalition partner) can support this. 2) What do members want from the Group moving forward? | Groups led by
Chris Bayes Becky Foster (UEA) Becca Sykes (University of Leeds) Dr Alex Blower (Arts University Bournemouth) |
| 14:45 | Feedback from Group discussions | Each Group lead to feed back
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| 14:50 pm | BREAK | |
| 15:00 pm | Guest speakers: Introducing the ‘Skills to Succeed at University: MOOC’ | Dan Bond and Matt Elliot (University of Leeds)
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| 15:30 pm | Discussion around institutional views on T levels and what the plans are for recruitment, retention and student success | |
| 15:45 pm | AOB & Next meeting details | Chris Bayes, Group Chair |
| 16:00 pm | Meeting close |