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Programme Leaders Forum. November 2013. Pauline Kneale pauline.kneale@plymouth.ac.uk. Pro Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning Director, Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory (PedRIO) Professor of Pedagogy and Enterprise
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Programme Leaders Forum November 2013
Pauline Knealepauline.kneale@plymouth.ac.uk Pro Vice-Chancellor Teaching and LearningDirector, Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory (PedRIO) Professor of Pedagogy and Enterprise Previously: Professor of Applied Hydrology with Teaching and Learning in Geography
Agenda • What should PLF cover? • Updates • UK Quality Code • Assessment – ‘New’ Policy • DLE Update - Neil Witt • Q&A
The UK Quality Code for Higher Education http://www.qaa.ac.uk/AssuringStandardsAndQuality/quality-code/Pages/default.aspx
PU next Institutional Review, 2015-6. • New HE Review process. There is a working group • Aligning back office structures • 2015 Evidence Base – single web site
Back office paperwork If a QAA auditor walked into the School office tomorrow could you sit them down and give them access to the papers from the last three years for: • Module and programme action plans • Staff-Student liaison committee meeting papers and the responses from School T&LC. • Evidence of meetings with alumni, professional bodies, employers … • External examiners appointments, reports and responses
Quality Office http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/ouruniversity/organisation/quality/Pages/default.aspx
Events Update Events https://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/research/pedrio/newsandevents/Pages/Teaching-and-Learning-Events.aspx • 18 December - Internationalisation and the Student Experience 2013 • 2 April 2014 – PedRIO Conference • 27 June 2014 - VC’s Teaching and Learning Conference
HEA Support • Discipline Leads for each area nationally • Sign up to the discipline newsletters http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/disciplines • Funding opportunities and conferences
Update on TDF HEA Accreditation for staff who teach.
Draft Assessment Policy • Not really ‘new’ • Replaces the 2004 paper version (90+ pages) • Web based • Hot linked • Informed by best practice nationally – meets the Quality Code • What is missing? • What could be expressed more effectively? • What else?