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The value of endorsement to providers. Providers who have been through the endorsement process have identified several advantages - ‘It was important for the course’s credibility. Prospective students asked about it – they wanted the wider recognition that endorsement brings’
- ‘We wanted to put endorsement on the advertising to encourage people to sign up for the course so it would run’
- ‘If you are writing a course from scratch, the submission programme provides a very helpful framework. For example to get endorsement a course has to include a variety of ways to assess students work. This requirement encouraged us to be creative about assessment. It also helped us argue for alternatives to assessment at HE level’
- ‘Endorsement forced us as providers to make sure that tutors had recent and relevant community development work experience. This noticeably improved the quality of the teaching’
- ‘To get endorsed a course has to subscribe to and communicate a clear values base for community development work. This helped us to keep the values in there when under pressure to be less contentious’
- ‘Staff and students felt that their work was being recognised. It was an endorsement of them.’
- De Montfort University, Youth & Community Division welcomed the accessibility of ESB staff and the constructive engagement of the panel members in working with us towards meeting the conditions of endorsement of our MA Programmes.
- “The process of ESB endorsement has not only benefited our students who are working in the fields of youth work and community development work, but has also heightened the Programme Management Teams understanding of this area.”
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