Our Fellowship support is changing!

Many of those who work at the University of Stirling will be familiar with The Stirling Framework for Evidencing Learning and Teaching Enhancement (SFELTE). SFELTE has offered teaching staff opportunities to achieve fellowship aligned to the UK Professional Standards Framework 2011 with Advance HE since 2015.  

In 2023, after sector-wide consultation, a new updated version of the PSF was released. The Learning and Teaching Enhancement team have been working hard this year to align our support to the PSF 2023 and to reaccredit our provision with Advance HE for the next four years. So, things will look a little bit different in 2025.  

Firstly, we are retiring the SFELTE name to be replaced with ‘Focus on Fellowship’. Within this there are two options: 

Focus on Fellowship Experiential Scheme  

This scheme will support you to make fellowship claims against Descriptor 1 (Associate Fellow), Descriptor 2 (Fellow) and Descriptor 3 (Senior Fellow).  

We will be running two cohorts each year and are introducing an application process so that we can support you to make a claim for fellowship more effectively within one of the two six-month cohorts, which run March to September and September to March.   

The scheme is open to all staff including appropriately experienced Post Graduate Researchers (PGRs).  This is also open to staff working at international partner institutions. 

Focus on Fellowship Taught Route

This is now called the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education (PGCTSLHE) and is comprised of three 20-credit Masters modules (SCQF Level 11):   

• FOFP100: Supporting and Facilitating Learning – Descriptor 1 (Associate Fellowship)  

• FOFP200: Assessing and Feedback for Learning – Descriptor 2 (Fellowship)  

• FOFP300: Critically Evaluating Practice – Descriptor 2 (Fellowship) 

Completion of the first module gives you Associate Fellowship while completing all three modules of the PGCTSLHE and submission of a Fellowship Statement leads to the award of Fellowship. 

Because most of our new staff join around the Autumn semester, the first module FOFP100 will run in Spring 2025, to give you time to acclimatise to the University of Stirling before you join the programme. In the autumn, we will run a new induction course, ‘Stirling Foundations’, to help you find your feet as you begin your career with the University.  

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