View programme: Academic Skills Provision Toolkit launch event

9.30am  

Registration and arrival refreshments

10am  

Welcome

• Dr Sarah Norman, Senior Tutor, St Hilda’s College 
• Professor Rhona Sharpe, Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning and Deputy Academic Registrar, Education Policy and Enhancement

Introduction

• Dr Ben Brabon, Senior Educational Development Consultant, Centre for Teaching and Learning

10.20am 

Session 1: Mapping Tool

In this interactive session, you will explore the Toolkit's Mapping Tool - a resource designed to identify and visualise the processes, systems, and events that shape academic skills provision across a college.

Working collaboratively, you will begin building a visual map that reveals how different elements connect and how students find and engage with academic skills support. This exercise will help you identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities within the current provision and lay the groundwork for future enhancement. 

Refreshment break

A college perspective

• Dr Andrew Bell, Senior Tutor, University College 

12pm

Session 2: Reviewing Tool

In this session, you will explore the Toolkit's Reviewing Tool, which offers a structured approach for evaluating academic skills provision across the college and uncovering opportunities for enhancement.

Through guided discussion and reflection, you will begin identifying priority areas for development and start shaping an action plan to support targeted improvements. 

1pm

Lunch (in the Dining Hall)

Session 3: Role Profile Tool

In this session, you will work with the Toolkit's Role Profile Tool to examine the range of activities and responsibilities involved in delivering academic skills provision across the college.

You will explore who contributes to different aspects of academic skills development and identify professional development needs and opportunities that can support and strengthen this work. 

3.10pm

Next steps: challenges and opportunities 

• Dr Sabine Bohnacker-Bruce, CTL Associate (Academic Skills), Centre for Teaching and Learning  

In this final session, we will bring together insights from our earlier sessions, and consider the next steps for strengthening academic skills provision in colleges.

We will explore the opportunities that have emerged and the challenges that may shape future development.