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FURTHER REPORTED:
The Standing Committee was informed that the
Subject Committee in Education had considered the proposal from
the Institute of Education for the continuance of the alternative
course for the PGCE in some detail and had invited two of the
authors of the report on the alternative course to speak to the
proposal.
The Subject Commmittee had welcomed the idea that it
was possible for the PGCE to be taught and examined by means of
an alternative course.
RECOMMENDED :
308 (i)
That the proposal from the Institute of Education that the
alternative course for the Postgraduate Certificate in
Education should continue for students registering in and
after October i98l be approved.
(ii) That
the
revised form of
assessment for the alternative
course for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education, as set
out in DOCUMENT BES∕8θl∕⅛6 (attached to signed Minutes),
be approved for students registering in and after October
1982. (Extract from the Minutes of the Standing Committee in
Education
19 June , 1981.)
(The details of the forms of assessment are contained in Appendix II of
the thesis .)
What is
quite clear is that from the beginning Alternative Course staff
were continually involved in creating and modifying the conditions for the
existence of the course.
This activity which at each point involved both
the Institute
and the University became
feature of life
as
did
the
production of submissions and reports.
Staff were frequently required to
scrutinise and evaluate their work for audiences whose function it was to
make
critical
decisions.
In
itself
this
is
major
pressure
and
constraint
for the innovation constantly needs to prove itself
for as a
minority group
it
exists outside the mainstream
frequently running the
risk of being further marginalised or eradicated.
’Proving itself
is
problematic
for Evaluation Reports
positive
student
opinion and high
levels of performance and achievement may do little to change established