Quality Policy
The Academic Board has adopted a quality policy, which summarises its expectations of courses.
The quality policy requires that any course or constituent part of a course of study fulfil the following criteria:
General
- Accords with institutional mission and objectives
- Conforms to academic regulations and procedures
Staff teaching programme
- Know and understand institutional mission and objectives
- Know and understand course aims and objectives
- Inform student learning with research and scholarship
- Develop good teaching methods and skills
Students within programme
- Know and understand aims and outcomes
- Know assessment and other academic requirements
- Can engage in a variety of learning
- Are active in learning process
- Receive effective counselling on progress
Content of course
- Includes appropriate level of subject knowledge
- Fulfils requirements of aims and objectives
- Has clear and realisable outcomes
- Is appropriate in level to standard of award
- Caters for variety of student backgrounds/aptitudes
- Instils enthusiasm for subject & learning
- Encourages transferable skills, especially:
- effective communication in variety of form
- imaginative, analytical, problem-solving ability
- independent judgement
- skills in independent enquiry and research
Assessments
- Are appropriate for stated aims and outcomes
- Are objective and fair
- Have clear and explicit criteria
- Are accompanied by useful feedback
- Encourage active involvement of students
Resources
- Staff are appropriate in numbers and qualifications
- Library is appropriate for learning needs of students
- Library is appropriate for needs of staff
- Accommodation is sufficient and adequately equipped
- Materials requirements are sufficient
- Clerical assistance is sufficient
- IT provision is sufficient
- Careers, counselling, support systems are appropriate
Course development
- Is informed by student evaluation
- Is informed by external evaluation
Performance indicators
- Matching these criteria is a set of recommended performance indicators (.pdf) for use in monitoring and evaluation.