Hello

Hello

I have finally managed to publish a post thanks to Annamarie guidance. Thanks Annamarie.

Everything and everybody seem very busy at this time of year. I have been trying to rally up my advisory group to collect their thoughts on what the advisory group has meant to them, in order to mull over, prior to the subject mentors evaluation meeting next week. Though I cannot attend the actual meeting, I would like to put our points forward for consideration in the grand scale of things. A final document will be put together, which all mentors under the guidance of Colin are working on presently.

I have also asked my group to suggest any ideas for the future direction of the network. One comment has been for a continuation of the e-portfolio concept and the desire to try to encourage greater participation for our students. My own thoughts, are of having a community blog similar to the type we saw from Dumfries & Galloway College , but with a group of local colleges sharing a blog, for instance for a particular course.
Another has been for colleges to get together to look at standardising.....benchmarking with each other.
A consistent theme seems to be for local focus groups to emerge and provide support for each other. Great!
We have the habia/sfeu barbering network meeting next week also, so I will report back from this, with the progress we make in the take up of barbering qualifications. Habia will have representatives to discuss the delivery of barbering qualifications, and SFEU have an input by providing some hairdressing learning material available from a representative from JISC.

Will need to go now and try to get a good nights sleep, suppose to be running the 10km race in Glasgow tomorrow morning......I say running more like a fast walk really.