Last week, I wrote a guest article for The Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) about their upcoming Higher Education Evaluation Library (HEEL).
In it, Mike Kerrigan and I describe how we think it might get used by the sector, the potential pitfalls and challenges for the HEEL itself, and a plea to everyone to not just cherry pick their best stuff.
I think the HEEL has the potential to be really important for Widening Participation work at Universities across the country. But it will live or die on the contributions it receives from the universities themselves. So far, universities are not mandated to submit things to the HEEL, and are relying on people sharing learning. I hope this works. If it doesn’t, I don’t think the HEEL goes away, but it might change, and might become more integrated with mandatory reporting. That has it’s own problems too.
Hey, maybe this means they’ll get another blog post out of me! I’ll have to find another way to get running or playing pop bangers on a guitar in there somewhere…
You can read the full article here:
Submissions to the HEEL: How to be brave and balanced [Link to TASO]
The next post though, that’ll live on this website. So stay tuned…
