Meetings - The Review Event for Full and Interdisciplinary/Individual Programme Reviews
6.2.1 As noted above, the focus of the review should be developmental, enabling the Panel to explore strategies and examples of quality enhancement in operation.
6.2.2 The review should normally be held over one day and should be based upon the ‘Example of an Internal Review Timetable’ (see Appendix 3 of these guidance notes) and the ‘Indicative Agenda Items for an Internal Review’ (see Appendix 4). The timetable is indicative only to be used for reviews involving a wide range of programmes and should focus as much as possible on enhancement rather than detailed quality assurance matters. The afternoon session should include the presentation of an example of enhancement (see below, 6.2.7). The review timetable may be streamlined where a small number of programmes is being considered. The length of the review event and timetable should be agreed at the planning meeting by the Panel.
6.2.3 The review should involve a range of meetings between the Panel and the Department/programme team and a meeting with a representative group of students from different years of the programmes under review (see Appendix 5 ‘Agenda for Meeting with Students’).
6.2.4 Where practical, the meeting between the students and the Panel should be held on the evening before the review in order for the external subject specialist to be able to attend and for any issues raised by the students to be clarified with the Department/programme team.
6.2.5 The Department/programme team should determine which members of staff should attend the review meetings. This may include all members of staff who contribute to the programme(s) under review but, at a minimum should include the Department/programme contact, Programme Directors for all programmes covered by the review, those responsible for student support, the research degrees co-ordinator, relevant key administrative staff such as the Assistant School Manager and School Manager as appropriate, and the relevant Head(s) of Department.
6.2.6 One internal member of the Panel should take the lead in asking the Department/programme team to respond to issues under each of the review headings with the other members contributing to the discussion as appropriate.
6.2.7 As part of the review meetings the Department/programme team should be asked to present one example of enhancement i.e. an aspect of learning and teaching where changes in pedagogy have produced improvements in student learning. A brief outline of this should be presented in section 9iii of the SED to provide the panel with an introduction to such.
6.3 Meetings for Interdisciplinary/Individual Programme Review - The Review Event
6.3.1 The review should normally be held over half a day and should be a streamlined version of the ‘Example of an Internal Review Timetable’ (see Appendix 3 of these guidance notes) and should be based on the ‘Indicative Agenda Items for an Internal Review’ (see Appendix 4). The review should involve a meeting of the Panel with members of the programme team and a meeting with a representative group of students from different years of the programmes under review (see Appendix 5 ‘Agenda for Meeting with Students’).
6.3.2 Where practical, the meeting between the students and the Panel should be held on the evening before the review in order for the external subject specialist to be able to attend and for any issues raised by the students to be clarified with the programme team.
6.3.3 One internal member of the Panel should take the lead in asking the programme team to respond to issues under each of the review headings with the other members of the Panel contributing to the discussion as appropriate.
6.3.4 As part of the review meetings the programme team should be asked to present one example of enhancement i.e. an aspect of learning and teaching where changes in pedagogy have produced improvements in student learning. A brief outline of this should be presented with the review documentation to provide the panel with an introduction to such.