Information for Directors of Student Education

For Directors of Student Education, listed below are hyperlinks to information on the committee structure for taught student education, annual quality assurance requirements, and the procedures/guidance for implementing policy areas that fall within their remit.

Quality Assurance checklist and deadlines 2021/22

See the Quality Assurance deadlines for this session and a checklist for module and programme approval, external examiners and action planning processes:

• Session deadlines and QA checklist

Committee structure for taught student education, September 2021

The University operates a system of deliberative committees relating to taught student education. The terms of reference and membership for all taught student education committees operating this session are published in the following TSEB paper:

• Taught student education committes (2021/22)

Committees  

• Faculty Taught Student Education Committees
• School Taught Student Education Committees  
• University committee papers (Sharepoint)
• University deliberative group papers (Sharepoint)

PROGRAMME APPROVAL

• Approval process overview (modules and programmes) 
• Fully online programme approval (link to Microsoft Teams)
• Programme Approval Groups (PAGs)
• Study abroad approval
• Collaborative programme approval

Action Planning

• School Action Plans

Assessment

• Assessment-related policies
• Assessment strategy
• Ad personam and ad hoc programme variation
• Code of practice on assessment (CoPA)
• Internal examiners
• External examiners

Review

• Student education review
• Programme review
• Module review
• Module evaluation
• Annual school review (ASR)
• Collaborative provision review
• Study abroad review

Student Voices

• Student Staff Partnership Forum

Accreditation / Professional, Statuatory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs)

A number of our taught programmes have accreditation and additional external reporting requirements. 

• Accreditation