Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that a post-pandemic edition of a report summarizing European SI/PASS/PAL programmes now is available. Thank you so much to all that contributed to this revised report! I have attached the new version of the report.
It will be updated continuously when new information is available on the European Centre for SI-PASS web-site:
SI-PASS in Europe | European Centre for SI-PASS (lu.se) . The report has also been published on ResearchGate if you want a more stable link: DOI:
10.13140/RG.2.2.18513.30564
Some pieces of info from the report:
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Based on contributions from SI/PASS/PAL supervisors at 74 Universities and one High
School in Europe.
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Estimated that 88 HEIs and two High Schools have active SI/PASS/PAL
programmes (the High School number is probably higher)
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At present, there are eleven countries in Europe (mostly in the north-western part)
with SI/PASS/PAL schemes.
Based on the collected info, we can make the following estimates (based on the estimate with
90 active SI/PASS/PAL programmes):
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there are ~384 trained supervisors actively involved in the SI/PASS/PAL
programmes,
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approximately 7,400 SI/PASS/PAL-leaders are employed each year,
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on average the leaders hold about 15 sessions during an academic
year being 0,5-3 hours in length,
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there are ~2,285 courses supported by SI/PASS/PAL each year,
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the number of students having access to SI/PASS/PAL per year is
~132,000,
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the number of students attending at least one time per year is ~67,900
(51 % of those having access),
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the average attendance[1]
on SI/PASS/PAL sessions is ~31 %,
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the average number of students at a session is ~11,
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the number of contact hours is ~730,000 during an academic year.
(Contact hours are the total number of hours students visit sessions during a year).
Compared to the previous edition of the Status report for European SI-PASS programmes published
in 2018, the number of active programmes has increased (from 75 to 90)
and new countries like Belgium, Netherlands and Northern Cyprus / Turkey have been welcomed to the European SI-PASS community. Besides adding new programmes over the last five years, there are also a few that ceased to operate. The Corona pandemic in 2020-2022
was a challenge for SI-PASS programmes and it seems like recruitment of leaders and attendance at sessions generally suffered a bit as a result both in the pandemic years but also afterwards. It will be interesting to observe if recruitment of leaders and
attendance at sessions improves in the coming years.
Kind regards,
Joakim Malm
Associate Professor, certified trainer in Supplemental Instruction
Lund University, Faculty of Engineering / European Centre for SI-PASS
Box 118, SE 221 00 Lund, Visiting address:
Ole Römers väg 3
Telephone: +46 46 222 75 71, e-mail: Joakim.Malm@lth.lu.se
