Dr Sammy Rashid BSc (Hons) MSc PhD
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 8385
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 8105
Email: S.N.Rashid@Sheffield.ac.uk
Office: 2nd floor, ICOSS
Research interests
Understanding Higher Education in Further Education Institutions
Sammy is working on a project which is being funded by the department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). One of the aims of the project is to extend the work of the previous Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded project by updating the integrated national database on all institutions, courses and students (including franchise students) in higher and further education (HE and FE). It also aims to survey employers of graduates with one of the aims being to ascertain whether or not employers differentiate between HE qualifications obtained via HE in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and those obtained via HE in Further Education Colleges (FECs).
The project involves analysis of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) database as well as the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) database. This requires the utilisation of extensive IT skills, including the use of specialised statistical packages (e.g. SPSS, R) to manipulate these very large datasets and to produce statistical analyses centrally relevant to the project.
Teaching
Sammy has been involved in helping with statistical issues for PhD and Masters students in the School of Education and has also taken a session on Survey Design and Analysis for the MA in Educational Research for three academic years. Sammy tutors and marks work for undergraduate statistics modules in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and has also been an Associate Lecturer on the distance learning Masters in Statistics at Sheffield Hallam University.
Other Experience
Sammy has approximately 20 years experience as a statistician and has worked in various applied areas, including for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and Department for Employment and Education (DfEE). He has also been an external examiner for a quantitative based Masters dissertation at the University of Malta in Education.
Recent Funded Projects
Patterns of Further and Higher Education in Colleges and Universities in England: with Gareth Parry, Greg Brooks and Anne Thompson; funded by HEFCE; January 2009 to February 2011.
Further Higher: Directors: Gareth Parry, Greg Brooks, Anne-Marie Bathmaker and David Smith; funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); Sammy’s involvement was from April 2007 to December 2008
Stepping Stones: Tracking basic skills learners from counting to non-counting provision; PI: Greg Brooks; funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). Sept 2005 to March 2007.
Learners’ Study: analysing skills for life provision; with Greg Brooks, Ann-Marie Bathmaker and Pam Cole. Sept 2005 to March 2007.
The literacy and numeracy levels of 13- to 19-year-olds: PI: Greg Brooks; funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). Sept 2005 to March 2007.
Publications
Rashid, S., Parry, G., Thompson, A. and Brooks, G. (2011). Patterns of Further and Higher Education in Colleges and Universities in England: A Statistical Summary and Technical Commentary. Bristol: Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rdreports/2011/rd04_11/
Rashid, S. and Brooks, G. (2010). The levels of attainment in literacy and numeracy of 13- to 19-year-olds in England, 1948-2009, Literacy Today Vol 32, No 1, September 2010, pp 13 – 24.
Rashid, S. and Brooks, G. (2010). The levels of attainment in literacy and numeracy of 13- to 19-year-olds in England, 1948-2009. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. http://www.nrdc.org.uk/publications_details.asp?ID=181#
Rashid, S. and Brooks, G. (2008). Universal Access and Dual Regimes of Further and Higher Education (The FurtherHigher Project), Working Paper 3 -- Statistical Studies.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/furtherhigher/workingpapers.html