- Hi, my name's Elaine, Elaine Skinn.
I'm the Programme Director
for the PGCert Educator and Assessors programme.
The programme is new, it's been reformed,
and it now runs more of a blended programme,
which is more flexible for you in today's working.
So, rather than you doing
on-campus taught study days throughout the programme,
as I say, it's now a blended programme,
so there will be some of that,
but with addition, there will be more online working,
more directed study,
and more individual tasks per week.
The hope within the programme
is to develop you as educators and assessors
to be able to go back into practise
and use the skills and the tools
that hopefully this programme will give you
to be able to produce more educators and assessors
within your own care setting.
The programme itself, you will either be attending on campus
or you will be doing some directed study.
Within the directed study,
I have then built in some weekly tasks
which will build on your assessment.
In addition now, you will have the ability
to be able to produce each week parts of your assignment
so by the time we've finished at the 12 weeks,
you will have most of the information you need
for the assignment to be delivered.
To support you in doing this,
we have a fantastic study skills team,
which we link in with
and there is several sites within the website,
on the Canvas site for you to access.
So, if you have any problems,
say if you've not studied in the past few years,
so this is a new course
and as you know, it is at Level 7, at Masters.
So, you are expected to be an independent thinker,
autonomous within your own practise.
Then, elements to then produce a written piece of work
can be in some instances a little bit more complex.
So, to help you in producing that,
you can then access the study skills team
who will run through any aspects
that you have worries about,
say just producing a piece of work, critiquing it,
referencing, formations of paragraphs,
anything of that ilk,
and they will supply the information
and advice for you on a one-to-one basis or within a group.
So, if you're interested in becoming an educator
or an assessor within your own practise
and you feel this programme is for you,
then please if you need any more help
or any more advice, please don't hesitate to contact me.
All my details will be on the website for you there.
Look forward to seeing you.
Thank you.