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Learning and Teaching Action Plan

The Learning & Teaching Strategy constitutes the University’s strategy for quality enhancement.  The most recent version was developed by the University’s Learning and Teaching Committee and subsequently approved by Senate in February 2011. As part of the Strategy, Learning and Teaching Committee also developed an Action Plan to facilitate the implementation of the strategic objectives. 

The Action Plan is divided into a number of Projects. Each of these corresponds with a key institutional priority. Each has been assigned to a senior member of staff (Project Lead) for the purposes of leadership, accountability and coordination of progress. 

Under the projects, the Action Plan also includes a number of actions and activities that are related but have been identified via other sources, e.g. ELIR, Internal Audit, Enhancement Themes. The purpose in integrating these with strategic objectives was to align activities in a way that would promote co-ordinated effort, allow monitoring of progress and help enhance the impact of the actions taken. 

Progress with the Learning & Teaching Action Plan will be monitored in detail by the Learning & Teaching Committee, with onward reporting to the University’s Education Policy & Strategy Committee (EdPSC) and Senate and Court. 

The following list sets out the projects and the underlying actions.  Links are provided from each action to their latest progress report. These provide information on:

  • work accomplished to date
  • relevant timescales for the implementation of change
  • how the effectiveness of change is being or will be evaluated, and
  • an evaluation, where relevant, of the effectiveness so far of any change instituted.

Please note: these reports are “work in progress” and some are yet to be completed.

Action No.   Short Description Action status  Last updated 
 Project 1 - Assessment and Feedback   
1 Student Voice Website In progress  Aug 11 
2 Student Feedback (evaluation) In progress Aug 11 
3 Assessment Feedback  Ongoing Aug 11 
4 Central Analysis of Student Surveys  In progress Aug 11
5 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey Action Plans In progress Aug 11
6 Promotion of ISB In progress Aug 11
7 First Year Student Learning Experience Survey Action Plans In progress Aug 11
8 National Student Survey Action Plans In progress Aug 11
9 Extended use of free text analysis tools In progress Aug 11
Project 2 - Graduate Attributes
1 Implementation of Graduate Attributes Ongoing Aug 11 
2 Embedding employability  Ongoing Apr 11
3 On-line PDP tools  Ongoing Apr 11
4 PDP Uptake  Ongoing Apr 11
5 Employer engagement - Club 21  Ongoing Apr 11
6 Work-related opportunities  In progress Aug 11 
7 Graduate attributes and LTStrategy  Complete Aug 11
8 GAs, employability and validated provision  In progress Aug 11
9 Employability  In progress Apr 11
Project 3 - Infrastructure
1 Estates maintenance  Complete Jul 11
2 Enhance learning infrastructure  Ongoing Aug 11
Project 4 - Campus Solutions
1 Embedding Campus Solutions  In progress Apr 11
Project 5 - Retention
1 Retention action plan In progress Apr 11
2 Adviser Early Warning  In progress  Jul 11 
3 Retention Data Reporting  In progress  Jul 11 
4 Withdrawal from Courses  In progress  Jul 11 
Project 6 - Equality and Diversity  
1 Equality and Diversity agenda  Ongoing Apr 11
2 Embed practices  Ongoing Apr 11
Project 7 - Innovation in our Provision
1 Consolidation of VLE  In progress Apr 11
2 Engagement with Themes  Ongoing Apr 11
3 Approach to QE  Ongoing Apr 11
4 Integration of approaches to QE  Ongoing Apr 11
5 Dissemination of good practice  In progress Apr 11
Project 8 - Staff Development
1 Staff development and PDR  Ongoing Apr 11
2 Definition of scholarship  Complete Apr 11
3 Alignment of staff development with strategy  In progress Aug 11
4 Staff development  Ongoing Apr 11
Project 9 - Process Improvement  
1 QOs role  Ongoing Jul 11
2 Collaborative provision  Ongoing Aug 11
3 Monitoring impact of strategies  Ongoing Aug 11
4 Collaboration and validation codes  In progress Aug 11
5 Mechanism to track good practice  Ongoing Aug 11
6 Periodic review of graduate schools  Ongoing Aug 11
7 Management information from CS  In progress Apr 11
8 External examiners  In progress Apr 11
9 Collaboration code and year 1 plans  In progress Aug 11
10 Programme design and approval  In progress Aug 11
11 PSR: reflectiveness  In progress Aug 11
12 Programme scrutiny: consistency  In progress Aug 11
13 External input to programme scrutiny  In progress Aug 11
14 Continuing validity of programmes  In progress Aug 11
15 External members on validation panels  Complete Apr 11
16 Formal review of validation agreements  In progress Aug 11
17 Partner use of logo  Complete Aug 11
18 Advisory system  In progress Jul 11
19 Advisers and PDP  In progress Jul 11
20 Annual monitoring for PGT  Ongoing Apr 11
21 PGR progress reporting: consistency In progress Aug 11
22 Exam board discretion  In progress Aug 11
23 Collaborative provision: student experience  In progress Aug 11
24 Academic standards  In progress Aug 11