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Description |
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Title |
Personal Development Planning (PDP) policy and tools at the University of Glasgow |
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Type of document |
- Policy and action plan: texts - Websites with information for staff and students (Senate Office, Learning and Teaching Centre, Human resources, College of Social Sciences) - Mahara: e-PDP tool - PDP online planner (project (2004-5) at the faculty of Education) |
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URL of the practice |
University of Glasgow Senate Office about the Personal Development Planning Policy: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/senateoffice/academic/studentpolicies/personaldevelopmentplanningpdp/ The Learning and Teaching Centre PDP page: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/learningteaching/goodpracticeresources/graduateattributesemployabilityandpdp/ PDP online planner (project at the faculty of Education 2004-5): http://macdui.educ.gla.ac.uk/pdp/index.php |
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Summary |
From 2007-2008 onwards, adoption of a PDP Policy and a related action plan at the University of Glasgow, as part of their Employability Strategy. Strategic significance for the University of Glasgow: - Improve the capacity of the students to understand what and how they are learning, and to review, plan and take responsibility for their own learning. - PDP has been demonstrated to increase reflexive skills and therefore motivation, confidence, self-awareness and critical thinking. - The success of graduate enhances the University’s reputation and its competitiveness. - Enhance employability of students Both staff members and students should benefit from the project. Various actions and tools: - Learning and Teaching Centre: Graduate Attributes ePortfolios Project: how to effectively reflect on one’s graduate attributes using Mahara, the University's e-portfolio http://www.gla.ac.uk/students/attributes/ Page of the centre: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/learningteaching/goodpracticeresources/graduateattributesemployabilityandpdp/#tabs=1 - Mahara: e-PDP tool adopted by the University of Glasgow and suggested as support to the students and staff: http://portfolio.gla.ac.uk/ - The Human Resources website (see related website below) displays a section on Personal Development and self assessment. “Performance and Development Review” is recommended and forms are available for staff members and researchers.http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/humanresources/policies/p-z/pdr_ref_guide/selfassessment/ - The College of Social Sciences provides information about PDP and the various offers and ways to implement such a plan at the University. An example of a PDP Planning cycle and various links are also suggested: http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsciences/info/students/employability/guidetopdp - PDP online planner (project at the faculty of Education 2004-2005) that enables students to identify their strengths and weaknesses and plan future work: |
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Stakeholders |
Policy and action plan developed and approved by the University Senate. The action plan specifies that faculties and central offices have responsibilities in the implementation of PDP within the University of Glasgow The beneficiaries are all students and staff. |
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Validation |
Policy art.7 : “Monitoring and Review of PDP implementation In the short-term, student and staff surveys will be used to evaluate the benefits of the PDP opportunities developed and to revise and improve on them for subsequent years. MyStuff as a tool for recording PDP activity will be evaluated as detailed in the implementation plan. In the longer term, PDP provision and quality will be reviewed through, for example, the Annual Monitoring Review (AMR) and Quality Enhancement processes, departmental review, evaluation of the use of SFC Funding for employability (2007-2011), ELIR and through ongoing monitoring and evaluation undertaken by the Employability Development Adviser.” |
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Constraints |
The policy states that it is compulsory for faculties to offer structured and supported PDP to students. On the other hand, students’ participation is voluntary which implies that not all students may take advantage of the various opportunities. The adoption of such a policy forces all units of the institution to take actions, develop tools, communicate, reshape parts of their offer, potentially find a budget, hire competent staff or train their existing staff and students in order to support the plan. |
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Sustainability |
Good communication and top-down support seems necessary to have all units of the University follow the principles of such a Policy and have as a core goal as many students benefit from what has been developed. Internal evaluation and amendment of the action plan accordingly should ensure the sustainably of the process. |
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Transferability |
The University of Glasgow PDP Policy aims at a global implementation of PDP throughout the whole institution. Every unit (faculties and central offices) have their own responsibilities in the process and will have to take actions according to their area of work. Staff members as well as students should benefit from this project. |
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Contact details |
At the University of Glasgow: Senate Office tel: +44 (0)141 330 6063
Learning and Teaching Centre: Director: Victoria.Gunn@glasgow.ac.uk Human Resources : Director: ian.black@glasgow.ac.uk |
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Publication/Access Date |
The Senate of the University of Glasgow has approved the PDP policy 2007-2010 for implementation by the end of the 2007-2008 academic session and an associated Action Plan for 2007-2008. |
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Author/Publisher |
The Policy was developed by the PDP Working Group at the University of Glasgow (see para. 1 of the Policy for names) and adopted by the Senate and published on the University’s website (see below) |
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Related Web site(s) |
At the University of Glasgow: - Personal Development Planning Policy 2007-2010: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_105176_en.pdf - Personal Development Planning Action Plan: 2007-2008: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_105177_en.pdf - Human Resources - PDP: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/humanresources/policies/p-z/pdr_ref_guide/persdevplan/ - Self assessment: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/humanresources/policies/p-z/pdr_ref_guide/selfassessment/ - PDP at the College of Social Sciences (example of PDP implementation at a Faculty)ttp://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsciences/info/students/employability/guidetopdp/ - Mahara e-PDP tool used at The University of Glasgow: http://portfolio.gla.ac.uk/ - Learning and teaching Center http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/learningteaching/goodpracticeresources/graduateattributesemployabilityandpdp/ |
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Related resources that have been developed |
(See the above section) Graduate Attributes Matrix developed by the Learning and Teaching Centre: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183776_en.pdf PDP online planner (project at the faculty of Education 2004-5): http://macdui.educ.gla.ac.uk/pdp/index.php and an article about the development of this tool: http://macdui.educ.gla.ac.uk/pdp/index.php |
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