Motion
- Motion title
- Guided learning hours
- Session
- 2020-2021
- Meeting link
- Interim FE conference
- Meeting date
- 12 December 2020
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- D32
- Motion text
FESC notes the majority of qualifications come with a set of guided learning hours (GLH). These are a set as a standard to ensure sufficient teaching contact to deliver the course professionally.
FESC believes that the GLH have been subject to varying changes due to a college’s organisational needs and not the need of the learner. This is often at the detriment of the learners and increases the workload of the lecturer. Given UCU’s ongoing campaigns to tackle the issue of excessive contact hours, this may inadvertently give a college the opportunity to reduce the GLHs even further.
FESC calls for:
1. an investigation into the possible widespread abuse of cutting down GLHs to lower than the actual standard and the increase of heavy workload by stealth
2. any recommendations to be looked at and incorporated by ROCC to highlight this abuse.
- Proposing body
- Coleg Gwent
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Further education committee (FEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2020/F/12-12/051/D32