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Summary of veterinary issues
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29 March 2012

  • Networking - veterinary schools and more widely (subjects, countries)
  • Independent learning and student support - getting the balance right.
  • Longitudinal professional development - finding space in crowded curricula for softer skills
  • Staff skills in working with students (with or without pastoral 'issues')
  • Student expectation and appeals
  • Professionalising teaching - PG Cert for staff
  • Progress on embedding Day One Skills in all programmes especially those FE/HE
  • Feedback to students and managing student feedback
  • Learner difference (graduate entry, diversity of background, diversity of learning, etc.)
  • Signposting help and support as much as delivering it
  • Student recruitment and retention
  • Finance and debt in the student population - surfacing new 
  • Instititutional support and investment
  • New build and facilities
  • Work based and placement learning (including FE/HE) - vocational LEARNING
  • NSS and policy drivers (e.g. Scotland specific QAA)
  • Partnership programmes - shared responsiblity for students
  • Educational research and staff development
  • Transition - into veterinary / VCP programme and into work (employability)
  • Clinical skills and using curriculum time effectively
  • International competition

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Posted by: Megan Quentin-Baxter

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