Quality Assurance Committee
Convener: Dr Kath Shennan
Clerk: Miss Emma Hay
Tel: 01224 273610
Email: e.hay@abdn.ac.uk
Remit
To be responsible to the UCTL for the assurance of quality and maintenance of standards across all undergraduate, postgraduate taught and postgraduate taught elements of research provision.
Specifically, the Quality Assurance Committee shall:
- in consultation with College Teaching & Learning Committees, Graduate Schools or College Postgraduate Committees, as appropriate, review proposals for (a) the introduction of new courses and programmes of study (b) amendments to existing courses and programmes, and (c) the withdrawal of existing courses and programmes, and make appropriate recommendations;
- recommend to the UCTL changes in the General and Supplementary Regulations;
- oversee the quality control of taught courses and programmes through scrutiny of reports from the Student Course Evaluation Exercise, External Examiner Reports, Internal Teaching Review Reports and Reports from Professional & Statutory Bodies, as applicable; and refer policy issues to the University Committee on Teaching and Learning, as appropriate;
- be responsible, on behalf of the UCTL, for co-ordinating a regular programme of Internal Teaching Reviews for monitoring and reviewing courses and programmes of study and consider and recommend to UCTL revisions to the procedures for Internal Teaching Review, as necessary;
- be responsible, on behalf of the UCTL, for regularly reviewing alignment of University policies with the QAA Codes of Practice, the wider Academic Infrastructure and external reference points and for recommending revisions to policies, as appropriate.
- monitor the quality of provision provided by collaborative partners through the scrutiny of annual reports and recommend to UCTL revisions to the procedures for the approval and oversight of collaborative provision, as necessary;
- oversee issues relating to student progress, including the establishment of Student Progress Committees and Fitness to Practise Committees, as appropriate, and make recommendations to the Senate for the discontinuation of attendance, as appropriate.
- undertake such other functions as may be referred to the Committee by the UCTL.
Composition
- The Committee will be convened by a senior member of academic staff to be appointed by the Senate Business Committee.
- Three representatives from the Directors of Undergraduate Programmes - one from each College
- Three representatives from the College Postgraduate Officers - one from each College
- Two representatives nominated by the President of the Students’ Association
In attendance
- Director of Academic Affairs (or nominee)
- Head of the Centre for Learning & Teaching (or nominee)
Operation
The Committee will meet three times per year preceding each meeting of the UCTL.
Minutes
2012/13
2011/12
2010/11
