Professional Standards Framework 2023 and the Queen Mary Academy Taught Programmes

About the Professional Standards Framework (PSF) 2023

The PSF 2023 is a nationally-recognised framework for benchmarking success within HE teaching and learning support which is managed by Advance HE.  It forms a comprehensive set of professional standards and guidelines for everyone involved in teaching and supporting learning in HE.  The PSF 2023 can be applied to personal development programmes at individual or institutional level to improve teaching quality.

Queen Mary is committed to the continuous development of teaching practice, and is embedding professional standards of teaching into its practice and appraisal scheme, aligned to the PSF 2023.

Dimensions of Professional Practice

The framework identifies the diverse range of teaching and support roles and environments. These are reflected and are expressed in the Dimensions of Professional Practice.

• Professional Values: underpin all forms of Core Knowledge and Areas of Activity. They are the foundation of professional practice. 
• Core Knowledge: informed by the Professional Values, representing key forms of knowledge required to undertake the Areas of Activity. There are multiple and diverse forms of knowledge which are connected to and shaped by communities and contexts.
• Areas of Activity: bring together the Professional Values and forms of Core Knowledge, showing the essential activities that support delivery of effective practice.

 

Professional Values	Core Knowledge	Areas of Activity
V1) Respect individual learners and diverse groups of learners	K1) How learners learn, generally and within specific subjects	A1) Design and plan learning activities and/or programmes
V2) Promote participation in higher education and equality of opportunity for learners	K2) Approaches to teaching and/or supporting learning, appropriate for subjects and level of study	A2) Teach and/or support learning through appropriate approaches and environments
V3) Use scholarship, or research, or professional learning, or other evidence-informed approaches as a basis for effective practice	K3) Critical evaluation as a basis for effective practice	A3) Assess and give feedback for learning
V4) Respond to the wider context in which higher education operates, recognising implications for practice	K4) Appropriate use of digital and/or other technologies, and resources for learning	A4) support and guide learners
V5) Collaborate with others to enhance practice	K5) Requirements for quality assurance and enhancement, and their implications for practice	A5) Enhance practice through own continuing professional development

 

Taught programmes

Our taught programmes are mapped against the PSF 2023 and enable participants to demonstrate their practice in each of the dimensions of the framework.  The Taught Programmes Handbook provides a detailed mapping of the programme against the PSF 2023.

Participants will be also introduced to the PSF 2023 and its role at the programme induction. Successful completion of our taught programmes leads to recognition from Advance HE as either Associate Fellow (CILT) or Fellow (PGCAP). 

As participants’ careers and roles progress, they may wish to make an application for Senior or Principal Fellow.

Find out more

More details are available on the Advance HE website.