NCCL pioneers new model of museum learning
Geraldine Kendall, 13.07.2011
Education Syndicates scheme to be showcased at MA conference
Delegates at the Museums Association (MA) conference in Brighton this October will have an opportunity to learn about a new collaborative model of education provision pioneered by the National Centre for Citizenship and the Law (NCCL).
Earlier this year the NCCL, which provides education services for the Galleries of Justice Museum in Nottingham, launched Education Syndicates, a centralised scheme that aims to deliver education activities to schools and colleges nationally on behalf of museums and other institutions.
Tim Desmond, chief executive of the NCCL and Galleries of Justice Museum, will chair a conference session on the scheme, with representatives from the Supreme Court and the NCCL joining him on the panel.
The session will explore how the NCCL’s pilot partnerships with the Supreme Court and the Royal Courts of Justice in September 2010 worked in practice.
The NCCL utilised the buildings’ resources and facilities to provide experiential learning to children and young people about the justice system. It managed provision through its existing infrastructure, including schools sales and marketing, resource development and project management.
The pilot projects led to the creation of the first Public Legal Education Syndicate in April this year. Though its initial partnerships have focused on legal education, the NCCL now plans to expand the learning programmes it provides to cater for museums of all types.
The outsourcing scheme offers cost-effective education services to museums that have the necessary physical resources but lack staffing capacity to deliver learning programmes themselves.
Benefits include encouraging schools to visit clusters of museums/organisations; creating a shared agenda for museums and schools to champion museum education; avoiding duplication of effort and resources; sharing marketing; and reducing core costs for organisations by not having to manage an education service.
According to Desmond, Education Syndicates should be of particular interest to museum practitioners at a time when education services and staffing levels are being cut.
He said: “There continues to be a great demand for education provision but organisations and local authorities have shrinking capacity. We now have a number of potential clients who are interested in us effectively acting as their education departments.”
The Education Syndicates session will take place on Monday 3 October at the MA Conference in Brighton.
An early bird discount is available for delegates booking before 31 July.
For more information and to book your place, click here
Earlier this year the NCCL, which provides education services for the Galleries of Justice Museum in Nottingham, launched Education Syndicates, a centralised scheme that aims to deliver education activities to schools and colleges nationally on behalf of museums and other institutions.
Tim Desmond, chief executive of the NCCL and Galleries of Justice Museum, will chair a conference session on the scheme, with representatives from the Supreme Court and the NCCL joining him on the panel.
The session will explore how the NCCL’s pilot partnerships with the Supreme Court and the Royal Courts of Justice in September 2010 worked in practice.
The NCCL utilised the buildings’ resources and facilities to provide experiential learning to children and young people about the justice system. It managed provision through its existing infrastructure, including schools sales and marketing, resource development and project management.
The pilot projects led to the creation of the first Public Legal Education Syndicate in April this year. Though its initial partnerships have focused on legal education, the NCCL now plans to expand the learning programmes it provides to cater for museums of all types.
The outsourcing scheme offers cost-effective education services to museums that have the necessary physical resources but lack staffing capacity to deliver learning programmes themselves.
Benefits include encouraging schools to visit clusters of museums/organisations; creating a shared agenda for museums and schools to champion museum education; avoiding duplication of effort and resources; sharing marketing; and reducing core costs for organisations by not having to manage an education service.
According to Desmond, Education Syndicates should be of particular interest to museum practitioners at a time when education services and staffing levels are being cut.
He said: “There continues to be a great demand for education provision but organisations and local authorities have shrinking capacity. We now have a number of potential clients who are interested in us effectively acting as their education departments.”
The Education Syndicates session will take place on Monday 3 October at the MA Conference in Brighton.
An early bird discount is available for delegates booking before 31 July.
For more information and to book your place, click here
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