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Annex B: Remit of RoSCO, SLALE and the Professional Development Sub-Group
The remit of the Review of Scotland's Colleges ( RoSCO) was to:
"… provide Scottish Ministers with a robust evidence base, and where appropriate, informed recommendations for change, upon which sound decisions can be taken on how to fund and equip Scotland's colleges to meet future challenges and demands."
The remit of SLALE was to:
"… examine issues relating to the staffing, learners and learning environments of Scotland's colleges to ensure quality learning experiences, including:
1. opportunities for the further modernisation and improvement of learning and teaching methods;
2. supporting the professionalism and development of all staff;
3. whether there is evidence of an ageing workforce in colleges;
4. disability, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation, age and gender equality for staff and learners;
5. the competitiveness of colleges as a place of work (including recruitment and retention issues);
6. estates (and flexible joint use of buildings); and
7. learning environments for learners."
The remit of the SLALE Sub-group was to prepare recommendations to support the continued professional development of all staff in Scotland's colleges. This was to include developing specific policy proposals and formulating action plans for implementing the policies to:
- increase the number of lecturers that are teacher trained;
- require lecturers to undertake a minimum amount of continuing professional development ( CPD);
- develop and disseminate a code of practice;
- consider whether the Department can delegate some of its functions; and
- improve the training and development for learning and teaching support staff.
The specific tasks of the Sub-group were to:
- consider the training and development opportunities for all college staff and consider appropriate research requirements.
- increase the number of lecturers that are teacher trained by:
- devising concrete arrangements which will ensure that newly appointed lecturers are teacher trained within a reasonable period of time;
- recommending how best to implement these arrangements;
- identifying any cost implications; and
- suggesting a timescale for implementation.
- require lecturers to undertake a minimum amount of continuing professional development ( CPD).
- ask the Funding Council to work with colleges and other stakeholders to:
- undertake an audit to quantify the amount of time spent on CPD activity across the sector;
- estimate the resource implications of setting a minimum requirement; and
- advise on how this requirement could be implemented.
- prepare guidance on the principles, based on good practice recommendations, which colleges should include in Codes of Practice for all staff.
- consider whether specific action needs to be taken to publicise this guidance and to encourage colleges to use it.
- consider whether another organisation could take over the 'secretariat' and 'executive' functions that the Scottish Executive undertakes for the PDF.
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