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Cynhadledd Cyfeiriadau’r Dyfodol 2012 - Future Directions conference 2012

In response to the Welsh Assembly Government’s strategy for higher education  For Our Future: The 21st Century Higher Education Strategy and Plan for Wales (PDF 369KB) in 2009 (Department for Children Education Lifelong Learning and Skills 2009) the HEA organised a sector event in 2010 at which representatives from all major higher education stakeholders agreed to a focused enhancement theme for Wales: Graduates For Our Future with three work strands:

  1. Students as Partners;
  2. Learning in Employment; and
  3. Learning for Employment.

The work strands were officially launched in March 2011 and the three groups set about discussing how they could best capture innovation and practice from the sector. The work strands each produced a collection of case studies published by the Higher Education Academy in April 2012. The document outlined twin priorities for higher education: delivering social justice; and supporting a buoyant economy. For the sector this means prioritising the strategic themes of widening access student experience skills knowledge transfer and research. Wales’ first quality enhancement theme was born to address some of these.

The theme and work strands were showcased at the Inaugural Future Directions Conference – Graduates For Our Future on 26 April 2012 at Glyndŵr University as  three collections of cases in English and Welsh. Later three shorter publications summarised the Lessons Learned.

Cymraeg:

Mewn ymateb i strategaeth Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer addysg uwch  Er mwyn ein Dyfodol: Strategaeth a Chynllun Addysg Uwch ar gyfer Cymru yn yr Unfed Ganrif ar Hugain  (PDF 369KB) yn 2009 (Yr Adran Plant Addysg Dysgu Gydol Oes a Sgiliau 2009) trefnodd yr Academi Addysg Uwch ddigwyddiad i’r sector yn 2010. Yn y digwyddiad hwn cytunodd cynrychiolwyr o’r prif sefydliadau addysg uwch i thema gwella benodol ar gyfer Cymru: Graddedigion ar gyfer ein Dyfodol gyda thri llinyn gwaith:

  1. Myfyrwyr fel Partneriaid;
  2. Dysgu mewn Cyflogaeth; a
  3. Dysgu ar gyfer Cyflogaeth.

Lansiwyd y llinynnau gwaith yn swyddogol ym mis Mawrth 2011 ac aeth y tri grŵp ati i drafod sut y gallent grisialu arloesedd ac arferion y sector. Cyhoeddodd yr Academi Addysg Uwch gasgliad o astudiaethau achos gan bob un o’r llinynnau gwaith ym mis Ebrill 2012. Amlinellodd y ddogfen ddwy flaenoriaeth i addysg uwch: sicrhau cyfiawnder cymdeithasol; a chynnal economi ffyniannus. I’r sector mae hyn yn golygu blaenoriaethu themâu strategol ehangu mynediad profiad myfyrwyr sgiliau trosglwyddo gwybodaeth ac ymchwil. Sefydlwyd thema gwella ansawdd gyntaf Cymru er mwyn mynd i’r afael â rhai o’r rhain.

Cynhaliwyd arddangosfa o’r thema a’r llinynnau gwaith yng Nghynhadledd Gyntaf Cyfeiriadau’r Dyfodol – Graddedigion ar gyfer ein Dyfodol ar 26 Ebrill 2012 ym Mhrifysgol Glyndŵr fel tri chasgliad o achosion yn y Gymraeg ac yn Saesneg. Yn ddiweddarach crynhowyd y Gwersi a Ddysgwyd mewn tri chyhoeddiad byrrach.

 

Learning in Employment: English  (PDF 500KB) Learning in Employment: Lessons Learned - English (PDF 397KB)
Learning in Employment: Cymraeg (PDF 529KB) Learning in Employment: Lessons Learned - Cymraeg (PDF 432KB)
Learning for Employment: English (PDF 790KB) Learning for Employment: Lessons Learned - English (PDF 1MB)
Learning for Employment: Cymraeg (PDF 510KB) Learning for Employment: Lessons Learned - Cymraeg  (PDF 1MB)
Students as Partners: English (PDF 986KB) Students as Partners: Lessons Learned - English (PDF 302KB)
Students as Partners: Cymraeg (PDF 1MB) Students as Partners: Lessons Learned - Cymraeg (PDF 432KB)

The materials published on this page were originally created by the Higher Education Academy.