issue 31 - 29 OCTOBER 2007

NOT THE LANGSIDE BLOG

( or it is at langsidecollege.blogspot.com )



Paper Free Assessment
On Thursday 4 October 20 SVQ assessors from the Faculty of ECS undertook training to facilitate their use of the PaperFree assessment system which has been updated to web basis. Health and Social Care, SIRCC and Playwork assessors have been using the original PC based PaperFree system for the past 3 years.
The system has been extremely motivational for candidates as they are not required to produce written evidence of their competence; they record their evidence with assessor support onto a digital Dictaphone and it is uploaded as a ‘wav file’. The assessors all strongly believe that this is the way to deliver SVQs in the 21st century.

The PaperFree assessment system has the facility to be used for any qualification that is performance criteria based – so the potential for use in the College is huge. If any member of staff would like to view the system in operation please speak to Fiona M Fraser (3753) – if enough people are interested Fiona is prepared to deliver a practical demonstration of the system. The duration of the demonstration would be approximately 1 hour.
Please visit http://www.langside.ac.uk/Press&Marketing/NewsPages/Paperfree.asp
for images from the day.

Visit to China
Elaine Proudfoot has recently returned from China. The purpose of her visit was to participate in our partner institution Dalian Medical University’s 60th anniversary celebration. Also to participate with colleagues from Stevenson, Edinburgh’s Telford and Glasgow Metropolitan Colleges, under the aegis of Scotland’s Colleges International and supported by the British Council, to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Chinese Association of Vocational Education (CAVE).
The trip included visits to 4 CAVE Colleges in Shanghai where areas of mutual curriculum interest were explored. The facilities and resources in all
4 colleges were highly impressive and indicative of the enhanced status of vocational education in China. Each Scottish college will act as the main point of contact for ongoing dialogue with one Shanghai college. It seems likely that there is huge opportunity not just for student recruitment to the Scottish colleges but also for staff exchange and mutual curriculum development. The 5 yearly meeting of the Communist Party Congress in Beijing coincided with our trip to China. In his opening address to the 2000 delegates that attend the CPC, China’s president, Hu Juntao, spoke of the importance of vocational education to China’s burgeoning economy and of the importance of harmonised partnered approaches in the achievement of key strategic priorities. Elaine is hopeful that a harmonious vocational partnership will emerge between Langside and one of the CAVE colleges.

ASDAN Coffee Morning
The ASDAN class from the GAP Plus course are having a coffee morning/raffle on Wednesday 31st October 2007 @ 10.30am on the concourse of the Langside Campus. The support of College staff and students would be appreciated as the group, have worked extremely hard both in and out of class to collect donations for the raffle.
The group have organised the coffee morning to raise funds for an ASDAN challenge where they have to visit an event or show as a group, the money raised at this event will be equally divided between Cash for Kids and the Groups Challenge fund.







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