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1. A Map to Prepare for Curriculum Review Route 2 Review NEXT
2. How to use the map The following map has been designed to lead you through the required processes for curriculum review. Although not exhaustive, this route map will allow you to guide yourself through the …… The map is easy to navigate. The main line ----- takes you through the eight main stations to complete a review. The lines coming off these main stations give you more specific links to individual topics. Click on the station, or topic, you wish to find out about. Once you have read the information just click on the logo at the bottom of every page and it will return you to the main map. BACK NEXT
3. Employability Employer Engagement Roles & Responsibilities Programme Specification Form Student Engagement Sustainability Subject Specific Aim of Curriculum Review Student Input Quality Assurance Handbook Internationalisation Subject Specific Introduction Suggested Template for Review Document TOPICAL ISSUES MAKING A START QAA Codes of Practice Guidance Notes QUALITY ASSURANCE & ONGOING EVALUATION QMU GUIDANCE Regulations Personal Academic Tutoring PROGRAMME SUPPORT Subject Specific Teachability Changes in Student Demand MARKET & RATIONALE FOR PROGRAMME Good Practice in Learning and Teaching PROGRAMME STRUCTURE, CONTENT & DELIVERY PROGRAMME AIMS & OUTCOMES QELTA University Strategy PDP Requirements / Good Practice Professional & Statutory Body Requirements SCQF Levels & Descriptors Assessment Design & Good Practice Comparable Awards Provision of Feedback Graduate Attributes How to Write Good Learning Outcomes Sustainability Constructive Alignment Employer Expectations & Opportunities Subject Benchmark Outcomes Subject Specific Subject Specific CURRICULUM REVIEW ROUTE MAP Subject Specific BACK
4. MAKING A START The Making a Start line introduces you to purpose of the route map and a summary of the aims and involvement within a curriculum review. Click on the above categories to start your journey on this line. The QMU logo will take you back to the Making A Start station and map. Introduction Aim of curriculum review Roles & responsibilities
5. QMU GUIDANCE The QMU Guidance line provides internal links to help develop your curriculum review. Click on the above categories to start your journey on this line. The QMU logo will take you back to the QMU Guidancestation and map. Regulations Guidance notes Suggested template for review document Quality assurance handbook Programme specification form Subject specific
6. MARKET & RATIONALE FOR PROGRAMME The Market & Rationale for Programme line takes you through ….. Click on the above categories to start your journey on this line. The QMU logo will take you back to the Market & Rationale for Programme station and map. Changes in student demand QELTA University strategy Comparable awards Employer expectations & opportunities Professional & statutory body requirements Sustainability Subject specific
7. PROGRAMME AIMS & OUTCOMES The Programme Aims & Outcomes line summarises …… Click on the above categories to start your journey on this line. The QMU logo will take you back to the Programme Aims & Outcomes station and map. SCQF levels & descriptors Graduate attributes How to write good learning outcomes Subject benchmark statements Subject specific
8. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE, CONTENT & DELIVERY The Programme Structure, Content & Deliveryline provides …. Click on the above categories to start your journey on this line. The QMU logo will take you back to the Programme Structure, Content & Delivery station and map. Good practice in learning & teaching PDP requirements/good practice Assessment design and good practice Provision of feedback Constructive alignment Subject specific
9. PROGRAMME SUPPORT The Programme Support line …... Click on the above categories to start your journey on this line. The QMU logo will take you back to the Programme Support station and map. Personal academic tutoring Teachability Subject specific
10. QUALITY ASSURANCE & ONGOING EVALUATION The QUALITY ASSURANCE & ONGOING EVALUATION line provides a ….. Click on the above categories to start your journey on this line. The QMU logo will take you back to the Quality Assurance & On-going Evaluation station and map. Student input QAA codes of practice Subject specific
11. TOPICAL ISSUES The Topical Issues line provides some final considerations before …. Click on the above categories to start your journey on this line. The QMU logo will take you back to the Topical Issues station and map. Student engagement Internationalisation Sustainability Employer engagement Employability
12. INTRODUCTION How can this route map help me? This route map has been produced to aid staff preparing for Curriculum Review at Queen Margaret University. It is a guide to the processes involved and provides links to internal and external reference points which will inform the work of the programme team. As you will readily see from the route map, there is an enormous amount of information directly relevant to the process of curriculum review, as well as considerable amounts of useful, indirectly related material. One of the ways you could use this route map is to assign a branch-line to each member of the team to research.
13. AIM OF CURRICULUM REVIEW Aim of review Programmes are validated for a maximum period of five years, whereupon they are subject to review. This is an opportunity to reconsider the relevance and market for the programme, as well as to present for approval any major changes to the programme. These may be the result of changed environmental circumstances, feedback from students or other stakeholders or new institutional or government initiatives. In summary, you should use the review process to reflect on what has and hasn’t worked and to decide what changes (if any) you wish to make for the future.
14. ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES The review is a team approach Those involved in a review include: Programme team Deans of School and Heads of Division Panels Quality Enhancement Unit Centre for Academic Practice Professional and Regulatory Bodies A detailed description of the roles and responsibilities of each of the above is provided in the following validation & review handbook: QMU: guidance notes for programme teams
15. REGULATIONS Summary The regulations laid out in the linked document below contain all the detail required to ensure that new programme proposals and programme reviews fit with: The University’s quality processes External statutory and regulatory requirements The University’s strategic planning process, and development and review timetable. QMU Link: QMU: programme development, modification, monitoring and review
16. GUIDANCE NOTES Summary The link below takes you to a booklet which is designed to accompany the formal regulations for programme review. This document provides you with a practical outline of the processes and procedures involved in the review. QMU Link: QMU: guidance notes for programme team
17. SUGGESTED TEMPLATE FOR REVIEW DOCUMENT A guide for programme teams You may approach your review document any way you like as long as it does what it is intended to do: i.e. as long as it provides a clear and critical evaluation of the success of the programme since the last time it was reviewed, and provides a way of showing how decisions about the programme have been made. None the less, it is often useful to have a template to follow to help make sure you have covered all the necessary information. A suggested template can be found at the link below to provide a starting point for your document. QMU Link: QMU: putting together a programme review document
18. QUALITY ASSURANCE HANDBOOK FOR PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT, MENTORING AND REVIEW QMU Link: QMU: programme development, modification, monitoring and review
19. PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION FORM Summary QMU Link: QMU: programme specification
20. SUBJECT SPECIFIC Summary
21. CHANGES IN STUDENT DEMAND Summary External Link: Universities UK:changes in student choices and graduate employment
22. QELTA Summary QMU Link: QMU:QELTA
23. UNIVERSITY STRATEGY Summary QMU Link: QMU:strategic plan
24. COMPARABLE AWARDS Summary External Link: WhatUni?:home page
25. EMPLOYER EXPECTATIONS & OPPORTUNITIES Summary Internal Link: External Link: QMU:’employer’unable to open to check title QMU:future focus - employability Enhancement Themes:employability
26. PROFESSIONAL & STATUTORY BODY REQUIREMENTS Summary External Link: HEBRG:professional, statutory and regulatory bodies: an exploration of their engagement with higher education
27. SUSTAINABILITY Summary Internal Link: External Link: QMU:sustainability document UNESCO:education for sustainable development
28. SUBJECT SPECIFIC
29. SCQF LEVELS & DESCRIPTORS Summary External Link: SCQF: the framework
30. GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: graduate attributes QMU: future focus – what are your graduate attributes QAAHE: the foundation for graduate attributes: developing self regualtion through self and peer assessment Enhancement Themes: research-teaching linkages: enhancing graduate attributes
31. HOW TO WRITE GOOD LEARNING OUTCOMES Summary QMU Link: External Links: QMU:links to come Name:links to come
32. SUBJECT BENCHMARK STATEMENTS Summary External Link: QAA: honours degree subjects - subject benchmark statements
33. SUBJECT SPECIFIC Summary
34. GOOD PRACTICE IN LEARNING & TEACHING Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: link to come Name: link to come
35. PDP REQUIREMENTS / GOOD PRACTICE Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: PDP at QMU mapping current activity and sharing good practice QMU: future focus – PDP & employability QMU: good practice case studies QMU: http://www.palgrave.com/skills4study/pdp/about/index.asp QAA: personal development planning
36. ASSESSMENT DESIGN & GOOD PRACTICE Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: assessment procedures QMU: guidelines for staff: assessment specifications and feedback QMU: good practice case studies Enhancement Themes:assessment Enhancement Themes: integrated assessment
37. PROVISION OF FEEDBACK Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: guidelines for staff: assessment specifications and feedback QMU: QMU student guide to feedback on on coursework & learning QMU: good practice case studies THEA: enhancing student engagement with feedback – best practice guidelines (Sheffield Hallam University)
38. CONSTRUCTIVE ALIGNMENT Summary External Link: THEA: constructive alignment
39. SUBJECT SPECIFIC Summary
40. TEACHABILITY Summary External Link: Strathclyde University: teachability
41. PERSONAL ACADEMIC TUTORING Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: university policy: personal academic tutoring system QMU: being a P@T personal tutor at queen margaret university QMU: your P@T personal academic tutor NUS Connect: personal tutors
42. SUBJECT SPECIFIC Summary
43. QAA CODES OF PRACTICE Summary External Link: QAA: the quality code
44. STUDENT INPUT Summary QMU link: External Link: QMU:use of students in validation and review QAA:information and guidance
45. SUBJECT SPECIFIC Summary
46. STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU Link: QMU: link to come NAME: link to come
47. INTERNATIONALISATION Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: link to come NAME: link to come
48. SUSTAINABILITY Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: link to come NAME: link to come
49. EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: link to come NAME: link to come
50. EMPLOYABILITY Summary QMU Link: External Link: QMU: link to come NAME: link to come
51. REFERENCES and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The following pages provide a list of the references that credit all sources of information used in this work and the relevant acknowledgments to those who helped produce and create this resource material: References Acknowledgements
52. REFERENCES
53. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to all who contributed to this resource, especially: