AQST: who are we

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AQST who are we?
ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• Admin staff (7.0fte)
• Geoff Barker-Read
• Mike Byde
• Lorraine Cross
• Catherine Dickson
• Jenny Lyon
• Laura Cunliffe
• Christina Robinson
• Kate Swan
• Louise Ward

• Clerical staff (3.4fte)
• Eileen Foster
• Christine Golden
• Pat McKay
• Droog Robinson

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• What do we do?
• Mission
• As part of LTS, to work in partnership with
  faculties, schools and other central services to
  secure the Universitys reputation for excellence
  in learning teaching.

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• What do we do?

• AQST roles and activities
• Support the development of policy and procedures
  in line with the implementation of the
  Universitys Learning and Teaching Strategy
• Maintain effective and efficient quality
  assurance arrangements at all levels

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• What do we do?

• Identify opportunities for the enhancement of
  learning and teaching and the student academic
  experience through effective and efficient review
  processes, including the use of appropriate
  management information
• Support staff at all levels on learning and
  teaching issues

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• Compliance with the regulatory framework

• Internal
• Curricular Ordinances and Regulations
• The Rules for Award
• Examinations procedures
• External
• The QAAs Academic Infrastructure
• Bologna process

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• The QA procedures

• Programme and module approval
• Curriculum review (module, programme)
• Annual Health Check
• Student Academic Experience Review
• External examiners
• Responding to student feedback
• Collaborative provision

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• LTB (provided by LTSO)
• Faculty LTC (and SLTC if required)
• Cross-faculty LTC
• Admissions and WP (institution faculty)
• Collaborative provision LTC
• Study Abroad SG
• Enterprise SG
• etc

• Support for the L T Committee system

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM
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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• Collaborative provision
• Accredited Colleges
• (York St John, Leeds Trinity All Saints)
• Affiliated Institutions (LCAD only now)
• Faculty-level collaborations

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• Involvement with projects
• Blended learning
• Space2Learn
• Cross-disciplinary portfolio
• UPMC
• Equality and diversity
• Retention
• Employer engagement
• ADF projects

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• Academic Quality Standards Team website
• http//www.leeds.ac.uk/aqst/

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• Whats new for 2009?
• Regulatory matters
• introduction of MBiol,BSc MDes,BDes GradCert
• Rules for Award for Integrated Masters and
  Graduate Certificate programmes of study
• clarification of the rules on temporary
  withdrawal from study and intercalations (re
  student loan status)
• changes to General Regulations (Academic Dress)

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• Whats new for 2009?
• Student Academic Experience Reviews
• provision for two external representatives and
  for reviews to be chaired by a Pro-Dean from
  another faculty (by agreement)
• specific reference in the report to the
  Universitys strategic priorities for learning
  and teaching specifically, research-led teaching
  and Leeds for Life
• confirmation in the report of the currency of
  programmes of study and re-approval of the
  programme specifications
• reports to be forwarded to LTB and GB.

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• Whats new for 2009?
• 3. Responding to student feedback
• revised arrangements for distribution of survey
  results
• revised template for School Action Plan
• revised presentation of Responding to your
  feedback website

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• Whats new for 2009?
• School Codes of Practice on Assessment
• and Statements on Personal Tutoring
• revised template for School Code of Practice on
  Assessment (new information to be provided)
• development of a more comprehensive template to
  include agreed text where flexibility is
  inappropriate
• closer FLTC scrutiny of statements on personal
  tutoring

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ACADEMIC QUALITY STANDARDS TEAM

• What was new for 2008
• External examiners procedures
• The external examiner should endorse any August
  papers, either at the same time as approving the
  assessment for the main examinations or as a
  separate exercise where papers are only set as
  required
• The external examiner should endorse the marks
  following August examinations, this might be done
  either through confirming the marks following
  remote consideration or attendance at the
  Examination Board in late August/September.