'The Placement Legacy, handing on the hospitality baton: Ensuring a return on your investment'

The Path Conference 2012 we will be ‘beside the seaside’ in Bournemouth on the 14th & 15th June focusing on the ways industry employers, educators, and students can ensure excellent returns on their investments in placements. Tapping into the Olympic year we will identify how the changing nature of vocational management education reinforces the importance of placements making real contributions to host organisations. We will hear from some of the best placement providers how on they ensure quality placements and sow the seeds for growing careers with their placement student. In our lively ‘Question Time’ sessions we’ll debate the best ways of preparing and supporting students so their legacy can live on in the industry.
 
Great value professional development at £295
full delegate rate
(1 night 4* accommodation with breakfast, 2 days conference activities, 2 lunches, evening reception and dinner)
 
For further details please download the Conference Details Confirmed 2012 PDF which is below.

Or contact Edward Gallier   edward.gallier@btinternet.com

If you wish to make a booking please download the New Path 2012 Booking Form PDF which is also below, fill it out and return it to Edward Gallier.

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Institutional - Full Membership (£300)

This covers membership for all staff at a university or college, in the UK or internationally, which as an institution subscribe to CHME and whose subscription is paid.

Individual – Full Membership (£85)

This covers membership for an individual, whose university or college does not subscribe to CHME, but who subscribe and pay a subscription for themselves.

Institutional – Affiliated Membership (£300)

This covers membership for all employees or individuals whose employing company or organisation subscribes to CHME and whose subscription is paid.

To join CHME please download the document below and fill in the form.

General Links

Academic Institution Links

Conference Links

Employment

CHME adopts a proactive role in formulating policy and practice in learning and teaching in hospitality education within the UK. CHME members have acted in an advisory capacity to the QAA on subject benchmark statements and assessment standards, to the British Council on hospitality education in the UK, to the QCA on qualifications, and to People 1st, the sectors skills council for hospitality, transport, travel and tourism.

Our interest in teaching and learning goes beyond an advisory capacity; we also seek to encourage and promote best practice. At the CHME Annual Research Conference, a growing number of UK and international pedagogic researchers present their work through peer-reviewed papers that address a wide-range of current pedagogic issues within hospitality management education.

Despite the recent demise of the Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network (HLST) Network, CHME continues to maintain close links with the Higher Education Academy through the Discipline Lead for HLST, Lyn Bibbings. The HEA will continue to provide individual and institutional support to our subject community through three broad areas of engagement: academic practice development; teacher excellence and institutional strategy and change.  

At present, the extensive learning and teaching resources developed through the HLST are still available, free of charge, through the HLST website.

However, as the External Examiners Register will no longer be supported by the HEA, CHME is in the process of developing an external examiner register for use to help support its members. In addition, CHME is planning to reinstate its Teaching and Learning Committee. We are planning to launch both new activities at our forthcoming Annual Conference. Watch this space for further announcements

Useful Links:

• For learning and teaching resources ( including LINK and JOHLTSE publications, external examiner and research register databases):  www.heacademy.ac.uk/hlst
• For subject benchmark statements and quality guidelines: www.qaa.ac.uk
• For details on the national skills strategy and the range of  hospitality qualifications and current reforms: www.people1st.co.uk
• For the good qualifications guide for hospitality and career opportunities: www.uksp.co.uk
• For advice on the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme: www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/supportingindividuals/ntfs
• For Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning:  www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/TInits/cetl/
• For current education publications: www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce
• For results of the national student survey: www.thestudentsurvey.com
• For the latest national student forum annual report: www.scribd.com/doc/21640208-National-Student-Forum-s-2009-Report

The Quality Assurance Agency has published the first chapter of its UK Quality Code for Higher Education.

The UK Quality Code for Higher Education sets out the expectations that all UK higher education providers are required to meet. The code is currently under development, with Chapter B7: External Examining being the first elements of the code to be officially published.

Chapter B7: External Examining comprises a series of Indicators which higher education providers have agreed reflect sound practice, and through which institutions can demonstrate that they are meeting the relevant Expectations, regarding external examining.

The chapter can be downloaded in PDF format from the QAA Website.

More information on the UK Quality Code for Higher Education.
 

Events

For a listing of more forthcoming events please see www.heacademy.ac.uk/

Member Institution

Contact person

Leeds Metropolitan University

Middlesex University

Oxford Brookes University

Position

Name

Institution

Contact Details

Elected Officers

Representative Members

Co-opted Members

 
Co-Opted Executive Committee Members

Professor Paul Lynch, The Scottish Hotel School
University of Strathclyde, 94 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 OLG
Email: paul.lynch@strath.ac.uk

Crispin Farbrother, Bournmouth University
Email: cfarbrot@bournemouth.ac.uk

Stephanie Jameson, Leeds Metropolitan University
Email: S.Jameson@leedsmet.ac.uk

Administrator

Isabell Hodgson
Email: i.r.hodgson@sky.com
 

The 2012 conference is hosted by University of Wolverhampton.

The CHME has decided to sponsor the first 20 members to make a group booking onto the March 2012 CHME Student Conference being hosted by the University of Wolverhampton!

A group booking includes 4 students and 1 tutor.

Please go to the CHME Student Conference 2012 to find out more and to enquire about booking.