“LMU bringing new bachelor's degree program to Kingsport” plus 2 more

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• LMU bringing new bachelor's degree program to Kingsport
• Education Quandary: Will making teachers study for a Masters degree really improve the quality of teaching?
• First Degree Teaching Disaster Management Launched In Manchester

LMU bringing new bachelor's degree program to Kingsport Posted: 14 Apr 2010 06:09 PM PDT LMU bringing new bachelor's degree program to Kingsport   KINGSPORT — Harrogate-based Lincoln Memorial University is bringing a new applied science bachelor's degree program to the Kingsport Center for Higher Education downtown. LMU President B. James Dawson, retired Northeast State Community College President Bill Locke and Kingsport Mayor Dennis Phillips formally announced the pilot program Wednesday afternoon at Ridgefields Country Club. The program will allow those with an associate degree in applied science — some already working in careers such as health care or automotive technology — to earn a bachelor's degree without repeating any of the coursework completed for an associate degree, getting full credit for that already-done work. It inverts the normal model of starting college with a general education and liberal arts emphasis and finishing up with a specialty or concentration. Cherilyn Emberton, vice president for academic affairs and provost for LMU, said the degree will include 15 hours in business management and would be well suited for those who want to own, manage or advance in a business in their technical field. "Most of these people can't take their hours and use them anywhere else," Emberton said. The program, to start this fall, is dubbed the bachelor of applied science in interdisciplinary studies, or BASIS, and Dawson said he hoped to have at least 50 students enroll in the two-year program this fall. "It would be wonderful for us to start with a class of 50 to 75," Dawson said, although he added the school was committed to growing the program even if initial interest was a little lower. He said new graduates would be welcome, as well as those who have been in the work force for a while. Locke, who works for the city as a work force consultant for the KCHE, said the degree fills a niche for technical education majors who can't transfer their associate degree credits to a bachelor's degree. "LMU jumped to the forefront and proposed this degree," Locke said. Phillips said the announcement was good news not only for the center, but for the city and the greater Kingsport area. "To offer this type of program is what we wanted to do from day one," Phillips said. The center, operated by Northeast State, has the first two years of classes provided by Northeast State, with other participating schools providing the final two years needed for a bachelor's or post-graduate, master's or doctoral level degrees. Other universities in the consortium are Bristol, Tenn.-based King College, Jefferson City-based Carson-Newman College and the University of Tennessee, which currently offers only online courses. Plans are eventually to take LMU's BASIS to the Morristown and Sevierville campuses of Walters State Community College and the Knoxville campus of Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. BASIS program coordinator Contrade Daniels, along with admissions staff from LMU, will visit the Northeast State campus and the KCHE in coming weeks to meet with prospective students and provide program information. The admission requirements for BASIS include a 2.0 grade point average and an associate degree in applied science or 65 credit hours. Financial aid will be available for the program. The BASIS program will join LMU's other offerings at the higher education center, which are an educational specialist program, master's of education and a post-baccalaureate degree in education. For the future, Dawson said LMU officials are looking at offering additional degrees for allied health, veterinarian technician, nursing, physician assistant and advanced nursing. For more information about LMU contact the Office of Admissions at 869-6280 or send e-mail to admissions@lmunet.edu. To comment, you must register. Comments are the sole responsibility of the registered user participating in online discussions. You agree not to post comments off topic, abusive, obscene, defamatory, vulgar, threatening or an invasion of privacy. Violators may be banned. Click here to review our complete user agreement. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Education Quandary: Will making teachers study for a Masters degree really improve the quality of teaching? Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT Hilary's advice It might. I am convinced that improving teacher training is the single most important thing we can do to make better schools. But I have doubts about whether the Masters degree in teaching and learning, about to be piloted among some newly qualified teachers, is the right way to go about it. These centre around whether a standardised qualification can ever be flexible enough to meet individual teachers' needs, and whether asking new teachers to undertake research, as part of this qualification, is the best use of their time and energy. I'm also concerned that the level of funding falls between two stools. On the one hand, it doesn't come anywhere near that for top-quality Masters programmes, so to talk about "MBAs for teachers", as the Government has done, is disingenuous. On the other, the £30m allocated to the programme so far could have gone a long way towards providing a much-improved, flexible and targeted professional development programme for all teachers. I'm also worried that, yet again, this is an idea we've snitched from sainted Finland, in the belief that it will somehow give us the same kind of good schools that they have there, even though all kinds of other things are different about that country's education system. But maybe I'm wrong on all counts. If the ultimate goal of an all-Masters profession gives teachers the status they deserve, and imbues them with improved professional skills then that will be very good news for all schoolchildren. Readers' advice I teach at a university and some of my younger colleagues have spent their whole lives in school and university. They hold PhDs (having gained a Masters along the way) and spend most of their time writing academic papers that are hardly read. They have no practical experience and nobody has taught them how to control a class. Worse, they cannot bring themselves down to the level of the average undergraduate, so teaching and communication is a problem. Far from improving the quality of teaching, insisting that all teachers hold a Masters will completely destroy it. Malcolm Howard Surrey Maybe some secondary teachers would benefit from a Masters, but if the Government is expecting nursery and primary teachers to study for one, too, they will quickly lose some of the best people from the profession. Teachers of younger children need completely different kinds of skills. To put them in an academic straitjacket will mean many of them leave. Sylvia Pryke Hampshire I studied for an educational Masters, specialising in curriculum and instruction. After 10 years in the profession, it reinvigorated my teaching and increased my confidence. But I studied for it online, and I don't understand how practising teachers can undertake campus-based postgraduate courses. Pupils will suffer if teachers are always out of school, unless classes are scheduled at night, which is tough for those with family and other personal commitments. Karen Cavanagh Philadelphia, USA My son is expected to get AAAA* in his A-levels, but has been rejected by medical schools at Cambridge, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and St Andrews. Is this an anti-English issue? If so, he would have applied to other English universities. Ironically, although we live in Essex, we are Scottish. Send your replies, or any quandaries you would like to have addressed, to h.wilce@btinternet. com. Please include your postal address. Readers whose replies are printed will receive a Collins Paperback English Dictionary 5th Edition. Previous quandaries are online at www.hilarywilce.com. They can be searched by topic. '); } else { document.write(' Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

First Degree Teaching Disaster Management Launched In Manchester Posted: 14 Apr 2010 05:33 AM PDT Main Category: Medical Students / Training Article Date: 14 Apr 2010 - 2:00 PDT email to a friend   printer friendly   view / write opinions The Masters in Health Incident Command, validated by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), is the first degree of its kind in the UK. It recognises there is no education or training for health commanders and is informed by serious incidents such as Hillsborough, the Clapham train crash and the 7/7 London bombings. The course has been launched by South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and is designed with experts from MMU's Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care. Paramedic Dave Whitmore, a tutor on the course, has worked on over 20 such incidents, starting with the IRA bombing of Chelsea Barracks in 1981. Professor Janet Marsden, of MMU's Centre for Effective Emergency Care and link tutor for the Masters degree, says the first intake of students includes doctors, paramedics and ambulance service managers. The online course is hosted within a new virtual learning environment developed by Gödel Technologies, which enable simulations of 'real-life scenarios' alongside online lectures, discussion forums and residential weekends. The programme is supported by the Department of Health's Emergency Preparedness Division and will eventually recruit internationally. Source Manchester Metropolitan University Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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