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ASPIRE Framework Relaunching as EduExe Framework
18 September 2024
ASPIRE Framework Relaunching as EduExe Framework
The Educator Development team and School of Education have recently reaccredited our AdvanceHE fellowship framework. As part of the reaccreditation process, we will be relaunching the ASPIRE Framework from September 2024 as the EduExe Framework. The relaunch marks a number of changes:
- The move to PSF 2023, which includes updated dimensions of practice and different requirements for categories of fellowship (i.e. Fellow, Senior Fellow)
- A desire to distinguish between the ASPIRE Professional Recognition Pathway (PRP) and the Framework, whilst giving the Framework a distinctly ‘Exeter’ identity
- The return to fixed submission points for the ASPIRE PRP
ASPIRE PRP application timelines for 2024-25
Under our new accreditation with Advance HE, we are moving to set submission points during the year. Below you will find key dates for our submission points, which include the following key steps:
- Intention to submit deadline – The deadline for letting us know that you’d like to apply, via our Intention to Submit form.
- Submission deadline – The deadline for sending us your completed application, including supporting statement(s) or peer observation forms from your advocate(s).
- Dialogic assessment window – The period during which applicants submitting via our dialogic route will need to attend a professional conversation as part of their assessment. Please ensure you have availability during this time, and notify us via your ‘Intention to Submit’ form of any time slots (am/pm/full day) when you are unavailable.
- Feedback release date – We will endeavour to return all outcomes and feedback no later than six weeks after submission. This timeframe is to allow for external moderation, so that outcomes will be finalised and confirmed when you receive them.
Autumn 2024 Submission Point
Our first submission point will be in November 2024, with the following deadlines.
- Intention to submit deadline – Wednesday 2nd October 2024
- Submission deadline – Wednesday 6th November 2024
- Dialogic assessment window – Monday 18th November – Friday 29th November 2024
- Feedback release date – Wednesday 18th December 2024
For information regarding submission points from January 2025 onwards, please see the bottom of our ASPIRE PRP homepage.
Applications for Principal Fellowship (PFHEA)
Please note that the timelines for PFHEA applications differ slightly to the information above, to accommodate pre-panels and assessment panels for this category of fellowship, and applicant numbers are limited for each term due to panel capacity.
For more information, see our PFHEA page, or contact the team via aspire@exeter.ac.uk.
The ASPIRE PRP SharePoint has been updated to reflected the move to PSF 2023.
For any questions about the ASPIRE PRP applications process, please email aspire@exeter.ac.uk.
A note about promotions
Please note that under the new Exeter Academic criteria, Senior and Principal Fellowship are not required for promotion, as there is not a strict progression from Associate Fellow-Fellow-Senior Fellow-Principal Fellow. After FHEA, categories of Fellowship are at a right angle, focusing on your impact and influence on other’s practice, rather than your role or seniority.
In the criteria for Associate Professor state that ‘High performing educators may additionally demonstrate internal or external recognition of education innovation’ and list Senior Fellowship alongside other markers of recognition, such as conference speaker or publications’, meaning there is no requirement for Fellowship to be able to apply for, or be awarded promotion. The is especially important as under PSF2023, SFHEA applications are required to be at least 80% about leadership of teaching and learning, rather than classroom practice.
Speak to your Senior Academic Lead and/or Head of Department about plans for your promotion and how Fellowship may or may not fit in to your ongoing professional development.
