Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 5 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 at Swindon College |
| Assessment:
| EX 40%, OT 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: The aims of this unit are to ensure that students are: * Able to managing a project, centre or any other youth work facility to proper professional standards; * Able to budget and control the finances of such facilities; * Able to employ staff keeping to national legislative requirements and understand the importance of proper procedures and policies; * Able to develop short-term, medium-term and strategic plans for those facilities; * Able to work within the policy framework of their employer and understand the importance of so doing; * Familiar with management theory and techniques and understand the importance of good management to develop the curriculum offer for young people. Learning Outcomes: At the end of the unit students will have: * Explored the latest management theories and techniques and used them both in their work situation and through simulations; * Understood how good management is able to develop the curriculum offered for young people and why it is necessary to keep good records; * Understood how and why it is necessary to manage a project, centre or any other youth work facility to proper professional standards and demonstrate it in their day to day work; * Understood basic financial techniques and applied them in various scenarios; * Understood the way that good management assists the fund-raising process; * Understood national employment legislation and developed policies and procedures to use in their facility; * Understood health and safety issues and demonstrated that knowledge in their day to day work; * Developed a strategic plan for their current situation and shown how it links to the appropriate short-term and medium-term planning process; * Critically analyse the policy framework of their employer and demonstrate how they work within it. In addition students will continue to gain experience related to the other units in, professional practice, interagency working and evaluative and reflective practice. Skills: During the unit students will gain the following skills: * Intellectual (taught and assessed) - management theory and practice, financial processes, employment legislation and practice, Health & Safety legislation and practice, planning techniques; * Professional (facilitated) - professional work practices, record-keeping, financial record keeping and fund-raising, work-planning, use of policies of their employer; * Practical (facilitated and assessed) - management in their situation, planning, fund-raising; * Key Skills (facilitated - assessed through other units) - the skills in this unit will assist students in the demonstration of competence in the common core modules and work undertaken in this module will be expected to contribute to their portfolios in those units. Content: The syllabus for this unit concentrates on: * Management Theory and Practice * Link between Management and the Curriculum * Record Keeping * Project Management and Planning * Financial Techniques including Budgeting * Fund-raising * Human resource practice and legislation including core employment legislation, performance appraisal, contracts and good practice * Health and safety practice and legislation including the management implications of health and safety policies and procedures * The planning process and cycle including linkages to evaluation. In addition some of this unit will be carried out in the workplace using actual examples of work undertaken by the student. |
| Programme availability: |
AS20154 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Learning Partnerships
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