Welcome to the Leeds Met community
Apply for your Carnegie Card
As an associate staff member based at a partner college, you are entitled to access the resources and facilities available at Leeds Met which you can do with a Carnegie Card. This includes access to the library, sports facilities, staff development and volunteering opportunities.
To apply for a Carnegie Card please complete this form and send with a digital image OR a passport photograph to:
Regional University Network Office
218 Priestley Hall
Headingley Campus
Leeds LS6 3QL
Your new Carnegie Card should be with you within four weeks. If you have any queries please email: run.office@leedsmet.ac.uk
QAA Collaborative Provision Audit
The University will be undergoing a QAA Collaborative Provision Audit in 2011; a briefing visit will commence on 2 May 2011 and the audit visit will commence on 13 June 2011.
The scope of the audit covers all collaborative provision (flexible, distributed and e-learning) delivered in the UK and overseas. This includes all awards delivered by RUN partner colleges (some RUN partner colleges may be out of scope due to current IQER, TDAP and FDAP processes).
Collaborative Provision Audit documents for download:
Briefing Presentation 16 March 2010 (143 KB)
Briefing Note March 2010 (60 KB)
Overarching RUN Schedule of Events May 2010 (125 KB)
Network documentation
Introduction to collaborations and partnerships
Strategic planning approval (SPA) form guidelines
Strategic planning approval (SPA) form
Further templates, guidelines and regulations are available through the University's Quality Manual
Module development documentation
Learning outcomes glossary with Bloom's taxonomy
Module specification template for directly funded awards
Module specification guidelines for directly funded awards
Example of module specification
Personal & Professional Development 1
Personal & Professional Development 2
Personal & Professional Development 3
Personal & Professional Development 4
Level 6 Personal & Professional Development
Programme specification template for Foundation Degrees
External Examiners
External Examiner handbook 2009-2010
Regulatory references for External Examiners
Asylum, Immigration and Nationality Act (2006)
Guidelines for completion of External Examiner proposal forms 2010
How to develop and maintain a positive relationship with External Examiners
University External Examiners Sub Committee Business Schedule 2010-2011
Aide memoire for the appointment of External Examiners
External Examiner expenses claim form
External Examiner proposal form - Ex 1
Reallocation additional duties proposal form - Ex 2
Subject adviser proposal form - Ex 5
Staff development
The Network offers staff at partner colleges access to a comprehensive programme of staff development opportunities including conferences, training days and lectures by visiting professors.
View Network calendar for events information
The Assessment Learning & Teaching (ALT) office also co-ordinate a number of conferences and events which are available to staff from partner colleges.
ALT Support and Development 2010
Employability Support and Development 2010
View ALT calendar for events information
Employer Engagement Workshop
Monday 24 May 2010
West Nottinghamshire College and Center Parcs held an Employer Engagement Workshop at Leeds Metropolitan on Monday 24 May focused on the recent employer-led development of a Foundation Degree - Operations Management (Service Industries). The Foundation Degree was developed in 2009 to provide a progression route for supervisors and team leaders at Center Parcs who had completed the in-house 'Manager in Training' programme and who wished to attain higher management positions.
The workshop, led by Danielle Mackinnon (West Nottinghamshire College) and Tracy Walker (Center Parcs) can be viewed here (63 mins)
Learning resources
Little Books
The Skills for Learning team has produced The Little Book of Skills for Learning, The Little Book of Time Management and The Little Book of Essay Writing. Copies of these publications are available to order individually or in bulk. The books are incredibly useful, small in size yet packed full of hints and tips to support the learning experience.
The Little Books are £1 each for Network staff; bulk orders are available at 50 for £25 or 300 for £125. To order please contact Marie Scopes: M.Scopes@leedsmet.ac.uk
The Library has also produced The Little Book of Information Skills. To order copies please contact Fiona Middleton: F.Middleton@leedsmet.ac.uk
Skills for Learning CD-ROMs
At the start of the academic year, each partner college will receive a copy of the Skills for Learning CD-ROM which supports assessment, learning and teaching in areas such as time management, employability, cross cultural capability and academic communication. If your college would like to receive a training session for academic staff on utilising the this resource please contact Marie Scopes: M.Scopes@leedsmet.ac.uk
The Library
The library can support your teaching in terms of access to online journals and publications and access to the Skills for Learning resources. The library is open 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at both Headingley and Civic Quarter. To access the library, you will need a Carnegie Card.
To apply, please complete this form and send with a digital image OR a passport photograph to:
Regional University Network Office
218 Priestley Hall
Headingley Campus
Leeds LS6 3QL
Your new Carnegie Card should be with you within four weeks. If you have any queries please email: run.office@leedsmet.ac.uk
Student Enrolment
On enrolment to a HE award validated by Leeds Met, Network students have access to:
The Leeds Met Essential Guide 2009-10
Little Book of Plagiarism
University's academic regulations
Carnegie Card (student card)
Carnegie Card - The Library information
Invitation to annual Freshers' Festival
Regional University Network Fora
The Fora enable staff from FE and HE to meet on a regular basis and provide a space to reflect and consider curriculum developments across the Network and at Leeds Met. There are a number of subject specific and cross discipline Fora that are led by Network staff.
During the last twelve months, the Fora have achieved a number of objectives including the submission of successful joint bids, the co-ordination of collaborate performance arts such as RELAY and a conference aimed at staff from the health and social care field. In addition, staff have the opportunity to discuss issues such as learner progression, the Early Application Scheme Entry (EASE), lifelong network funding and collaborative student centred events such as the Northern Design Competition and the Festival of Partnerships for Students.
Leeds Met publications
All publications are available to download in pdf format. Network colleges also qualify for a special deal of up to 20 printed copies free of charge; additional copies will be charged at £5 per copy.
Alternatively we can offer a reduction on a site licence which gives you an electronic version of the publication together with permission to customise it for your institution.
Email publications@leedsmet.ac.uk for details.
Leeds Met ACTs
Network experience (2009)
In at the Deep End
by Phil Race
(2nd revised edition 2009)
Designing first year
assessment and feedback:
a guide for university staff
(2009)
The Leeds Met Book of
Resilience by Lucia Poole
and Ruth Lefever (2009)
Student guide to
University Assessment (2009)
Using peer observation to
enhance teaching
by Phil Race with Leeds Met
Teacher Fellows (2009)
Hands-on
internationalisation
by Leeds Met International
Teacher Fellows (2008)
Assessment Learning &
Teaching Strategy
2008-2012
Assessment Learning &
Teaching Priorities
2008-2009
Writing and using good
learning outcomes
by David Baume (2009)
Feedback
by Phil Race (2007)
Cross-cultural
capability guidelines
Cultural inclusivity
by Yasmin Valli,
Sally Brown and Phil Race (2009)
Network staff quotes
"As Course Tutor for a successful and well-established Foundation Degree I am pleased to be involved in the Regional University Network. There are significant benefits for both staff and students alike. It is extremely beneficial to share good practice with fellow lecturers and course leaders across other institutions which in turn has a positive effect on our students who can benefit both directly and indirectly from a broad range of teaching experience and perspectives."
Kim Leadbeater
Course Leader - FdSc Health Related Exercise & Fitness
Bradford College
