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University of Southampton

About Us

 

The University of Southampton’s School of Education has a thriving partnership of colleges and learning and skills sector providers. The partnership has a distributed community of teachers and students, including many learners serving overseas as part of the Army’s Education and Training Services. In addition to our teaching programmes, the learning and skills sector provides a central thread in the school’s research capacity through the Post-Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) Research Centre. The PCET Research Centre conducts research into educational practice and innovation and has a strong e-learning specialist team, providing leadership for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) e-learning Research Centre and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) National Centre for Research Methods, as well as carrying out learning and skills sector research for the DfES.  

 

The PCET partnership includes six local colleges, two satellite centres (one of which is a Local Authority Teachers’ Centre) and the Directorate of Education and Training Services (Army). The partnership delivers Certificate in Education and PGCE (PCET), a BA (Hons) degree and University Certificates for Teachers of Essential Skills to Adults. The School of Education currently has 340 students studying on these PCET programmes. The long-standing collaborative partnership with regional learning and skills sector providers enabled this research to take place across a wide range of organisations, subject disciplines and with a variety of teaching staff. 

 

"This project installed digital video conference hardware and software in partnership colleges and evaluated its use as a tool to support the remote observation of teaching performance in real time. The initiative was aimed at developing strategies to improve and support initial teacher training (ITT - CertEd/PGCE), human resource management (peer review, inspection preparation and staff development) and subject-specialist pedagogy." 

 

Resources
Evaluation report - PDF format
Case study

Case study - printable version - Word format
Poster - PowerPoint format
Observation form - Word format
Guidance on observation protocol - Word format

Findings - streaming Quick Time video (2 minutes)

Issues - streaming Quick Time video (1 minute)

Solutions - streaming Quick Time video (2 minutes)