Learning and Teaching Committee

Curriculum Sub-Committee

Subject: Rescinding Awards

Origin: Mr C Spendlove, Student Office (email: 11 May 2006)

Jennie,

On normal PGT programmes, if a student who has been awarded a PGCert wishes
to upgrade to a PGDip or MSc, the original award is deleted from their
record and they continue with the same ID number against which the new award
is made at some point in the future. We ask the students to return their
original cert, but I expect that in some cases we don't get it back. The
student record system will only show that they hold the higher
qualification. In this case, the student might end up with MSc but would no
longer hold PGCE

Although, in my opinion, it is completely wrong in principle, double
counting is of course not unheard of. For example, when we were validating
DipHE's in Peterborough, the students were awarded a Loughborough branded
DipHE and then after a year's top-up here, were awarded a Loughborough
degree.

I must say that I am not sure how we are going to map 120 credits for a PGCE
onto a PGDip. what will the additional requirements be?

Cheers,
Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.E.Elliott" <J.E.Elliott@lboro.ac.uk>
To: "ChrisS" <C.Spendlove@lboro.ac.uk>; "RAB" <R.A.Bowyer@lboro.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:07 AM
Subject: Rescinding awards

> Chris, Robert,
>
> The following comment arose at CSC last week during the discussion of the
> proposed PGCE/PGDip/MSc in Education with QTS. Can you offer any guidance?
>
> Thanks,
> Jennie
>
> ' The Sub-Committee considered proposals from the Teacher Education Unit
> for new full-time/part-time programmes with effect from September 2006.
> The intention that students would exit the programme with only one of the
> three awards was noted and the position of students exiting with a PGCE
> who wished to return to complete either the PGDip or MSc was queried. The
> issue of rescinding awards to avoid 'double counting' was felt to be a
> more general issue and guidance on this was to be sought from the Academic
> Registry.'
>

Author – Jennie Elliott

Date – October 2006