Quality Process: Programme Review

Quality Process: Programme Review

1. What needs to be done for a successful review?

   • Submission of documentation
     • Statistical data
     • Examiner reports
     • Programme monitoring reports
     • Formal and informal student feedback
     • Financial reports
     • Evidence of quality enhancement activity
   • Panel visit
     • Who is involved?
       • The programme team
       • The Panel Chair
       • The Panel Officer
       • The academic staff lead
     • What is done?
       • Event Scope established
       • identify logical and logistical arrangements
       • identify the structure and agenda for the event
       • Establish the readiness of documentation

2. What is the timeline for review

   • Start the review at least one calendar year in advance
   • Deadlines are guided by the partner instiution's directives

3. What are the departmental and institutional responsibilities involved in completing the process

   • Departmental
     • Determine and evaluation of programme learning goals
     • Review educational components of the programme
     • Identify instructional components
     • Student advisement and mentoring
     • Identification of necessary Infrastructure
     • Educational Environmental considerations
   • The institution
     • Review of departmental needs
     • Implementation of approved plans
     • Documentation of process
     • Discussion with and among internal and external entities

4. Formal outcomes

   • Re-Approval based on a revised partnership agreement
   • Non Approval
     • Feedback is given
       • A reasonable time allotment is given
         • A re-review is conducted where a final decision is made

5. How international collaboration impacts the process

   • Facilitates the process through mutual participation
   • Creates opportunity for new developments
   • Documentation of changes for full comprehension
   • Consideration of future needs of the country and students

6. Who should be involved?

   • All stages
     • Strategic Managers
     • Teaching staff
     • Students
   • When the nature of the programme is defined
     • Employers
     • Professional bodies
     • Industry representatives

7. Management of external expectations/requirements

   • Periodic critical appraisals
   • Consideration of views from
     • Student
     • Staff
     • Examiners
     • Employers

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