The document outlines various academic levels and roles within higher education, ranging from graduate associates and lecturers at levels 3/4 up to professors, deans, and heads of departments at levels 7/8. It also describes a potential pathway for a newly graduated and registered nurse to become a graduate associate, gaining experience teaching and in clinical practice/research over several days a week to demonstrate their potential for a career in education or research.

1. Level 3/4
•Graduate Associate
•Lecturer
Secondment
•Clinical Skills tutor
•Research Assistant
Level 5/6
•Lecturer
•Module Tutor
•Senior Lecturer
•Module Leader
Level 7/8
•Course Leader
•Director
•Deputy head
•Head
Level 4
•Deputy Dean
•Dean
•Professor
Clinical Practice
Higher Education
MSc / MA
PCGME
AFHEA
Phd / Prof Doc.
PGR Supervisor
Training
FHEA, SFHEA
PFHEA
University Teaching
Fellow
National Teaching
Fellow
Lecturer
/Practitioner
Link Tutor
Education
Champion
Collaborative Course
Development
Collaborative Research

2. Graduate Associate
1 day on MSc /
MA programme
at Anglia Ruskin
University
2 Days in Clinical Practice /
Preceptorship in local
placement
2 Days supervised
teaching /
research Anglia
Ruskin University
NMC Registered
Nurse
Recent Graduate
Anglia Ruskin
University
Demonstrates
potential during
course for career in
Education / Research
Fast trackable
candidate