ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY
Academic Office – Quality Assurance Unit
Annual Monitoring of Delivery in 2009/10
Examples of Good and Innovative Practice
Faculty
Example of Good & Innovative Practice
Programme
Programme
Leader/AMR author
Contact Details
Arts, Law and
Social
Sciences
The range of work placements, non-assessed work
experience and extra-curricular activity directly relevant to
pathways within the Programme area build and enhance
students’ employability skills
The growing relationship between the Humanities
programme and the Imperial War Museum demonstrates
how a traditionally non-vocational subject is showing
innovative ways of demonstrating employability skills by
students
The embedding of entrepreneurs in the teaching and
assessment as a differentiator within the BA (Hons)
Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Management degree
Communications, Film
and Media
Nina Lubbren
Nina.lubbren@anglia.ac.uk
Humanities
Rohan McWilliam
Rohan.mcwilliam@anglia.ac.uk
Undergraduate
Graham Webster
Graham.webster@anglia.ac.uk
The integration of guest speakers and external visits within
several pathways (undergraduate and postgraduate) to
support the practice-based curriculum experience for
students
The use of patchwork text for Teacher Education Art
provision
Undergraduate/
Postgraduate
Graham Webster
Mahmoud Al-Kilani
Graham.webster@anglia.ac.uk
Mahmoud.al-kilani@anglia.ac.uk
Postgraduate Teacher
Education
Philip Howlett
Philip.howlett@anglia.ac.uk
The ‘retreat’ held at a partner institution to which both
students and staff were invited; this was a good example of
building an academic community
The Education Champion and link team strategy offering
support to practice learning for students and practice staff.
This was identified as ‘outstanding’ in the Nursing and
Midwifery Council review.
Work based learning for non-traditional students based in
full-time employment
Postgraduate Teacher
Education
Simon PrattAdams@anglia.ac.uk
Simon.pratt-adams@anglia.ac.uk
Pre-Registration
Nursing
Frances
Weeley/Vanessa
Waller
Frances.weeley@anglia.ac.uk
Vanessa.waller@anglia.ac.uk
Allied Health
Roger Acres
Roger.acres@anglia.ac.uk
Lord Ashcroft
International
Business
School
Education
Health and
Social Care
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Examples of Good and Innovative Practice (cont’d)
Faculty
Example of Good & Innovative Practice
Programme
Programme
Leader/AMR author
Contact Details
Science and
Technology
The introduction of a ‘Ruskin’ week to focus specifically on
giving individual students formative feedback
The use of a mid-semester review process (closely aligned
to NSS satisfaction indicators)
The use of ‘Dragons Den’-style exercises to assist in the
development of entrepreneurial skills
The introduction of generic feedback sheets in Computer
Science so as to provide more timely feedback to students
The introduction of a project supervision contract which
describes the responsibilities of project students and their
supervisors
The provision of a compulsory module entitled ‘Learning
and Skills Development in Higher Education’ within the
programme area Design and Engineering. This module
overviews writing skills, good academic practice and styles
of referencing etc
The introduction of a standardised formatting system to
help assignment marking across partner institutions within
Sports and Exercise Sciences (inspired by the example
from the ALSS benchmarking process)
The introduction of the provision of audio feedback on
student assessment within Sports and Exercise Sciences
which has been very well received by students within the
Programme area.
Construction
Phil Mellow
Phil.mellow@anglia.ac.uk
Construction
Phil Mellow
Phil.mellow@anglia.ac.uk
Computer Science
Ian Oxford
Ian.oxford@anglia.ac.uk
Computer Science
Ian Oxford
Ian.oxford@anglia.ac.uk
Psychology
Rachel Cook
Rachel.cook@anglia.ac.uk
Design and
Engineering
Habtom Mebrahtu
Habtom.mebrahtu@anglia.ac.uk
Sports and Exercise
Sciences
Roy Luckhurst
Roy.luckhurst@anglia.ac.uk
Sports and Exercise
Sciences
Roy Luckhurst
Roy.luckhurst@anglia.ac.uk
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