Appropriately the focus was on: sustainability - evaluation - dissemination
The activities over the two days were extremely useful. As always it was an opportunity to reflect and share progress and challenges and added to this, there was a timely opportunity to reflect on strategies for embedding and sustaining outputs and outcomes. I found this session an (unusually) reassuring indication that because UG-Flex has tackled problems from an institutional perspective and sought solutions that are equally as institutionally grounded and mainstream, this has ensured sustainability has been integral from the outset. While embedding and sustaining change is always a challenge, for UG-Flex at least it is not an overwhelming one.
The session on evaluation was equally useful in clarifying impact and benefits in relation to different stakeholder groups. It reinforced that UG-Flex's decision to focus on targeted training and awareness raising activities in the final 12 months is appropriate.
The final session on "the book" - our vision [increasingly likely I hope to become a reality] for writing up what we have learned on curriculum design / institutional change - rounded off a productive 2 days.
Thank you to Amayas and his colleagues at CARET in Cambridge for a fantastic CAMEL.
The cycle tour and supper at Christ's College were an added bonus, not withstanding my rather sore derriere the next day!
I have heard rumours that video clips have been posted on You Tube (Search: dcb09 Cambridge camel).
