DfEE Project Details

Aims of the Project Project Team Lead Site Consortium Advisory Panel International Advisor Outputs Funding and Timetable

Lead Site
Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education	Professor Mick Healey	Project Director
	Dr Phil Gravestock	Project Officer
	Heidi Meehan	Assistant Project Officer
	Dr Jacky Birnie Dr Tim Hall	Geographers
Consortium
College of St Mark and St John	Sue Burkill Derry Corey
Lancaster University	Dr Gordon Clark Terry Wareham
Liverpool John Moores University	Professor Vince Gardiner
Middlesex University	Ifan Shepherd
University College London	Dr Clive Agnew
University College Northampton	Professor Hugh Matthews Dr Ian Livingstone
University of Manchester	Professor Michael Bradford
University of Plymouth	Professor Brian Chalkley
University of Surrey Institute Roehampton	Dr Karel Hughes

Advisory Panel
Jane Austick	(Development Manager, HEQE, DfEE)
Colette Cooke	(Careers Advisor, Careers Service, University of Manchester/UMIST)
Professor Lewis Elton	(Educational Developer, University College London)
Dr Rita Gardner	(Director and Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers)
Professor Alan Jenkins	(Educational Developer and Geographer, Oxford Brookes University)
Victoria Newton	(Manager, Environment, British Airways)
Elaine Owen	(Educational Products Manager, Ordnance Survey)
Eleanor Rawling	(Consultant: Geography Education)
Kester Wilkinson	(Contracts Manager - Education, Gloucestershire TEC)
International Advisor
Dr Iain Hay	(Geographer, Flinders University, Australia)

Outputs

1. identified the key skills geography students possess at entry to Higher Education (HE) and the extent to which key skills are taught in geography degree courses
2. developed models of good practice for embedding the learning, teaching, practice and assessment of these key skills in the geography curriculum
3. disseminated the outcomes of the project to the 80 geography departments in England and to the wider national and international academic community through:
   • producing 8 Guides (seven for staff and one for students) covering the main key skills areas:
     • Teaching and learning key skills and encouraging their transferability
     • Designing, recording and assessing a skills-based curriculum
     • Improving students' communication and presentation skills
     • Improving students' numeracy and communication and information technology (C&IT) skills
     • Improving students' team and personal skills
     • Improving students' problem-solving and thinking skills
     • Improving students' skills through work-based learning and extra-curricular activities
     • Developing your skills and making yourself more employable: a student guide
   • identifying and adding case study materials about incorporating key skills in the curriculum on the Geography Discipline Network (GDN) World Wide Web Resource Database
   • organising and running three national workshops on different key skills themes for geographers, careers officers and educational developers
   • giving ten days of advice and workshops to individual departments wishing to develop the ways in which key skills can be incorporated in their curriculum