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The Pedagogy Research Centre, including ASKe, in conjunction with BMAF warmly invite you to a seminar presented by Mark Freeman (University of Sydney).

As part of a suite of higher education changes, the Australian government has foreshadowed a new national higher education regulator and quality agency.  It will monitor standards from 2012 to ensure that students receive a high quality education from any provider.  The new agency will take a risk-based and proportionate approach to evaluations and have access to a range of escalating sanctions for those not meeting standards.  The Australian Learning and Teaching Council was commissioned to undertake a national project in preparation for the new regime.  This involved engaging a range of disciplines in the academic standards setting agenda.  It included facilitating disciplinary development threshold learning outcomes, providing resources to inform the development of standards-related processes, and laying the foundations for demonstrated standards achievement. 

The aim of this seminar is to describe the cultivated community approach taken to develop academic standards for business disciplines and outcomes arising from such an active and engaged approach.  Three seeding activities or cycles were implemented to develop threshold learning outcomes for bachelors and coursework masters degrees in accounting - the first business discipline.  Implications for other business disciplines and the next stage for accounting academic standards, namely a national collaborative external peer review process, will also be discussed.

About Mark Freeman
Mark is Discipline Scholar at the Australian Learning and Teaching Council and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney.  In 2010 he led the development of national academic standards for the various disciplines grouped in Business, Management and Economics.  While first practising in accounting and finance and then teaching and researching in finance, Mark has been active in leading, researching, innovation and professional development within business higher education for 25 years. He was founding Chair of the Australian Business Deans Council Teaching and Learning Network, Chief Investigator of the national collaborative scoping study of business higher education, Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) and founding Director of the Office of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Economics and Business at The University of Sydney, Senior Learning Consultant for The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and inaugural recipient of the Australian Award for University Teaching for Economics and Business-Related Studies. 

Please register your place by emailing nranjit@brookes.ac.uk

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