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Department Choose the Department under review.
Head of Academic Department Please enter the name of HoAD
School The School in which the department is based.
Faculty The Faculty in which the department in based.
Date of Review
Chair of Review Panel
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Enter the name of the Chair of the Sub-group, title and
School/Faculty.
Name of the AQD representative providing secretarial support.
Representative of Academic
Quality (Secretary)
Internal Panel Member(s)
External (Academic) Panel
Member(s)
External (Industry
Professional) Panel Member(s)
Student Representative
(optional)
Observer(s)
Please enter the name of each internal panel member, their title and School/Faculty.
Please enter the name of each external academic panel member and their title as appropriate.
Please enter the name of each external industry professional panel member and their title as appropriate
Please enter the Student Representative, and thier title as appropriate.
The names of any observers who may have attended the meeting.
Senior Staff Team
Department Teaching Team
Representatives of department student body
Enter the name and title for each person who attended in this capacity.
Enter the name of each member of the department teaching team who attended the meeting
Enter the name of each student and their course who attended the meeting.
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Review Objectives as listed in the Regulatory
Document
 to enable an ‘exchange of ideas’ with externals in relation to teaching in the department and to support staff in their aims to develop their programmes
 to contribute to programme review and enhancement
 to consider the range and nature of scholarly activities of staff and to evidence how staff draw upon these to maintain currency within the curriculum
 to evidence staff awareness of subject and sector pedagogical principles and to provide examples of how such engagements inform the delivery of the curriculum
 to consider how feedback from former students, employers, professional bodies, subject associations and professional practice, has been used in the development of the subject and its delivery
 to evaluate current strengths and weaknesses in the teaching, research and management activities of the department with a view to identifying potential enhancements that can be made to the departments activities
 to identify potential improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of the department’s previous review
 to confirm that actions have been completed or addressed from the previous review or addressed through the validation or its programmes
 to identify examples of good practice for wider dissemination
Documents provided to the panel
Conduct of the review
List all documentation provided to the panel, or attach for reference
The Panel met according to the pre-published agenda with four meetings from the Faculty. Following an initial meeting to consider the evidence base received and to formulate areas for further discussion based on the objectives and guidance with the regulatory document, the Panel met with the following three groups:
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Group 1: Meeting with the Senior Team
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Group 2: Meeting with the wider department team
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Group 3: Meeting with Student Representatives
The Panel then met privately to discuss their findings prior to feeding back to the department and Senior Staff team.
Areas of discussion during the review:
A summary of the main areas of discussion during the review
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Commendations:
This may include comments on areas of innovation or good practice
Conclusions on quality and standards:
Conclusions on currency of programme(s) delivered by the Department
Recommendations for the future for actions to remedy any identified shortcomings, and for further enhancement of quality and standards:
Report prepared by:
Date: Click here to enter a date.
Department response to the findings of the review:
This section is for the department to respond to the findings of the panel. Actions should be listed on the action plan following this section.
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This action plan is developed by the department team, aided where appropriate by other departments or directorates, to state the actions that are to be undertaken to disseminate areas of good practice or actions to address any recommendations made by the panel. It must be reviewed at the next Faculty
Quality Enhancement Committee (FQEC) and Institutional Quality Enhancement Committee
The actions in this report must be incorporated into the relevant PRE report in the academic year in which the review was undertaken.
Action Plan
Recommendation/ area of good practice for dissemination
Actions add an additional row for each action
Date of review by FQEC Click here to enter a date.
Expected
Enhancement
Date for implementation/ completion
Individual/
Group
Responsible
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Status
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