Education

Arethusa Projects' clients include a diverse range of institutions in the UK and abroad.

Research and Consultancy

Arethusa Projects offers a wide range of research and consultancy services. We can undertake scoping exercises, advise on strategy and policies, prepare documents and funding bids etc. For example, Arethusa Projects has:

 Achieved over £10 million of funding for higher education institutions through research and consultancy processes culminating in successful bids to funding bodies, written by us, on behalf of clients.Scoped course provision and, in light of this, advised a professional body on its future higher education strategy.Analysed and advised on the administrative processes underpinning a college's academic structures.

Development

Arethusa Projects can provide support for the development and implementation of new policies and strategies within your organisation. Our experience is that innovation, whether identified internally or imposed from the outside, is most effectively introduced through an external catalyst. We can provide that catalyst and the innovatory ideas. For example we have:

 Developed and helped implement institution-wide, flexible higher education programmes to meet the needs of business and industry, through modular credit-based structures.Undertaken administrative reviews.Helped in the development of the profile of a college seeking university status. Provided support to quality assurance services for FE, HE and industry. Undertaken the development of Lifelong Learning programmes.

Staff Training

Arethusa Projects runs training sessions, workshops, lecture and other events to help you implement any strategies and policies that you wish to embed within your organisation. Our presentations are innovative and exciting and are designed to engage and motivate the audience.

These sessions might result from the outcomes of previous development consultation activities with Arethusa Projects, or as one off sessions. For example:

In Higher Education we have:

Devised week long institution-wide lecture and work shop sessions to introduce the concept of the flexible credit-based curriculum to all college staff.Introduced university staff to the responsive negotiated curriculum designed:

  - to meet business and industry HE customer needs

  - to facilitate new ways of delivering the curriculum and its assessment.

In Further Education we have:

Undertaken one–off workshops to support academic staff and management in their preparations to deliver Higher Education programmes in a Further Education context.Introduced an effective focus on quality assurance and enhancement.

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