N-TUTORR Fellowship Partner

N-TUTORR Fellowship Partner

Badge awarded to

John Balfe


Issued on 1727861963 by

N-TUTORR

N-TUTORR

Ireland’s technological sector, combining new technological universities and institutes of technology, have formed a partnership to develop and deliver on the National Technological University Transformation for Recovery and Resilience (N-TUTORR) programme. This programme, which is EU funded and overseen by the HEA, proposes to utilise the national scale and scope of the sector to deliver a best-practice suite of initiatives and opportunities for the learner, for staff development and supported by necessary enabling technologies.

Issuer

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N-TUTORR

ntutorr@thea.ie

Criteria

In February 2023, the Technological University sector awarded over 130 Students as Partners in Innovation and Change Fellowships with an aim to transform the student experience by facilitating partnerships with staff to address the following thematic challenges in higher education:

• Academic Integrity • Digital Transformation • Education for Sustainability • Employability • Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) • Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

N-TUTORR Fellowship projects commenced in March 2023 and concluded in or before December 2024. Project teams, consisting of staff and student (2 minimum) partners, completed the following activities:

• liaising with local institute N-TUTORR project team members, Students' Union representatives, Project Management Office members and communications team, • attending project team meetings to discuss project planning and local dissemination; • submission of a signed agreement by project leads regarding the terms of funding (e.g., allowable expenditure, approval and ordering processes, key dates and reporting and monitoring requirements, including dissemination); • completion of EDI monitoring forms by student partners; • contributed to the N-TUTORR Students as Partners in Innovation and Change Fellowships National Showcase; • Contributed to national impact report summarising the project deliverables and outputs, the number of students that will be impacted over the next academic year, the nature of the impact and how this will be sustained. It also includes lessons learned and feedback on the scheme and its operation.

N-TUTORR Fellowship Partners demonstrate: • Excellent leadership and collaboration skills • Good organisational skills • Strong written and oral communication skills • Presentation skills

Alignments

Deliver social services in diverse cultural communities

http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/4b5d4fe3-4280-47c0-b1d2-ab08ace85557

Deliver services which are mindful of different cultural and language traditions, showing respect and validation for communities and being consistent with policies regarding human rights and equality and diversity.

Promote sustainability

http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/469e19ed-a0bd-445a-ae2d-4ba9430e296b

Promote the concept of sustainability to the public, colleagues and fellow professionals through speeches, guided tours, displays and workshops.

Academic support officer

http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2ddde737-28f3-444d-b1f8-ef12cc2df3c7

Academic support officers provide assistance to students with learning problems and act as the main point of contact for these students. They make sure extra tuition and educational programmes are provided to under-represented students with academic or personal issues. They also organise several social activities throughout the academic year.

Instructional design models

http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/e3145bd7-7f35-44ec-a5dc-4417c5c9ab9a

The guidelines or strategies for designing and developing instructions to ensure learners achieve the intended learning outcomes.