www.escalate.ac.uk

ESCalate

Higher Education Academy Education Subject Centre

Education Subject Centre for Advancing Learning and Teaching

ESCalate produces and disseminates resources for staff and students in HE wherever it is delivered:•Education Studies, •Foundation Degrees,•Continuing Education,•Lifelong Learning, •Initial Teacher Education

ESCalate structure• HE Academy Network • Centre in York• 24 Subject Centres • ESCalate based at Graduate

School of Education, University of Bristol

• Network of academic consultants and associates across the UK

• Departmental links and contacts plus ESCalate members and/ or registered colleagues - open to all!

ESCalate website – key source of information:• Resources – including teaching

support, reports, research findings, academic papers and evaluations

• Online registration

• E-submission of funding bids

• External Examiner online register

• Online event registration

• Book reviews, electronic bulletins and newsletters

Recent ESCalate statisticsRegistered colleagues/

members: 2935382 active contacts within

institutions, with 259 further people offering to be contacts

209 registered External Examiners - with an additional 314 potential External Examiners

HoDs: 37644 registered on the Expertise

Exchange with144 searches Website:

5,200 hits a day

ESCalate - across the world

Australia, Cambodia,Canada, Dubai,

Ethiopia, Finland, France,Holland, Hong Kong

India, Jordan,Kuala Lumpur, Nigeria,

Pakistan,Portugal, South Africa,

Sultanate of Oman, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey,United States,West Indies …

Thematic awards for 2009 - 10

• Student wellbeing (2 x £10k max)

• 21st Century teacher educator (2 x £15k max)

Open awards 2009-10

• Hot Topics – (£50) individual award to promote discussion of an important current issue

• Sharing Ideas – (£500) for dissemination of good ideas and interesting practice

• Student award – (from £200-£1000) for supporting individual or group learning

• Developing pedagogy and practice – (up to £5k) for development activity by individual or group

Hot Topics, Sharing Ideas

• Applications can be made throughout the year, depending on available funding

• Make an application and we’ll evaluate it as fast as we can

• We’ll make a single payment when the work has been completed

• We’ll keep everything as simple as possible

Student awards

• NB Deadline 18th June 2009!

• Find a mentor

• Apply on-line

• 500 word submission

• Costing and financial plan

Additional ESCalate activity includes:• Leading HEA funded

Internationalisation project across all centres with Languages SC

• Events organisation including Student Conference, Initial Teacher Education Conference, HE in FE Conference

• Employability module – online for students and staff

• Increasing Subject Centre Collaboration especially re: the Every Child Matters agenda e.g. the ICS-HE project

• Work with CETLs and others

The first Annual ESCalate Student Conference

•Delegates included •students at all levels •from Undergraduate and •Foundation Degree courses to PhD•Student presenters, including Foundation students•Open Space session allowing all to have a say

Get involved

Attend ESCalate linked events Write a book reviewDiscuss ideas for newsletter articlesAdvertise your department’s news in the e-bulletin Apply for project funding for yourself or with a

studentSet up a SIG for online discussion …etc.

Education for Sustainable Development

• One example of ESCalate’s response to developments in HE

• Involve Henry Liebling as a champion for ESD

• Representation on the HE Academy ESD group

• Web site created athttp://esd.escalate.ac.uk

• Support for ESD through Research Grant to Sally Inman, London South Bank University

• Resource creation and development

Contact details

heacademy-escalate@bristol.ac.uk

Email us:• give us feedback • ask about ESCalate and

how it could support your work

Thank you