Staff profile
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Job title: Programme Director
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Dept: Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
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Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3850
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Campus: Canterbury
The programme director for the PGCLT (HE) has been involved in teacher education for the last twenty years, teaching on, and designing, certificate, bachelor and master’s degree programmes in initial teacher education and professional development. He is a fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA), and currently serves on their National Executive Committee, and the Services and Enterprise Committee. For the last six years he has also been Vice-Chair, then Chair, of the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) Post-16 Committee, where he has been actively involved in reforms to Post-16 teacher education in the UK. Most recently he contributed written and oral evidence to the parliamentary skills commission inquiry into teacher training in vocational education, chaired by Sir Mike Tomlinson. He has also worked as an expert consultant and adjudicator for the Standards Verification UK (SVUK) National Professional Recognition schemes.
He has been an external examiner on teacher education programmes at Sussex University, The University of Manchester, The University of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire University, Huddersfield University, and The University of the West of England, and also acted as a consultant and external reviewer for numerous universities and awards, including, in recent years the revalidation of the PG Cert HE and FE provision for Northern Ireland, and a major review of the PG Cert HE provision at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of the best selling Open University Press book Working Post-Compulsory Education (2003), and for Routledge, Political Correctness and Higher Education: British and American perspectives (2009). His current research interest is in the provision of higher education in further education and serving the CPD needs of teachers who work at the HE/FE interface. Recent scholarly activity in this area includes:
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Lea, J. and Simmons J. (2011) `Higher Education in Further Education: capturing and promoting HEness’, Research in Post-Compulsory Education (in print)
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Lea, J. (2011) `Guidance for awarding organisations and practitioners with regard to the alignment of qualifications available for teaching in the HE and the FE sectors in England’, Report for Lifelong Learning UK: LLUK
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Simmons, J. & Lea, J. (2010) `Higher Education in Further Education: what kind of HE?’, Higher Education Academy position paper: HEA
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Lea, J. (2010) `Initial Teacher Education and Continuous Professional Development in Post-Compulsory Education: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats’, Educational Developments, 11(3): 11-14
By background he is a sociologist and maintains his interest in that discipline by contributing to the sociology pathway he designed for the American Studies degree programme at Christ Church. In that capacity he is also actively involved in the recruitment of American students to the university, helping to maintain and develop links with a number of community colleges and universities in the Chicago area.
Research Publications
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