Teaching quality assurance manual (TQA Manual)

Full contents

Policies

• Quality assurance responsibilities: 

Definitions

• Learning and teaching definitions
• Levels and awards framework
• Teaching and research

Design and Approval of Programmes

• New module and programme approval process: forms 
• Amendments to programmes of study: procedures and guidance
• Business approval and marketing of new programmes: form and guidance
• Guidance for completion: Programme specification template
• Programme specification template
• Guidance for completion: Module descriptor template
• Module descriptor template
• Publication of programme specifications and module descriptor: procedures
• Approval of new modules and programmes of study: procedures and guidance

Teaching and Learning

• Guidelines for constructing a code of practice in teaching and learning
• Curriculum accessibility: code of good practice
• Peer and self assessment in student work: principles and criteria
• Part-time teachers: code of good practice
• Study and Work Experience Abroad: code of good practice
• Student Placements: code of good practice
• College management of education: code of good practice
• Boards of Studies: code of good practice
• Combined Honours programme management: code of good practice
• Flexible and Distributed Learning (including e-learning): code of good practice
• Exeter Learning Environment: Code of Good Practice
• Accreditation of Prior Learning
• Accreditation of Prior Learning: Guidance on the assessment of APEL

Student Support

• Provision of information by Colleges to students
• Personal tutor system: code of good practice (effective from 1 August 2010)
• Student illness
• Procedures for the interruption and voluntary withdrawal of taught students
• English Language Support for International Students: statement of procedures

Postgraduate Taught and Research Students

• Admission of students to a research degree programme under off-campus arrangements - split-site and distance based students: statement of procedures
• Arrangement for the Supervision of Research Degree Students: code of good practice
• Supervision of postgraduate research students: code of good practice
• Dissertation or Project Supervision/Tuition for the Degree of Masters (Excluding MPhil programmes): code of good practice
• Periods of registration and changes to registration status for graduate research students: statement of procedures
• Changes to registration status for taught postgraduate students: statement of procedures
• Annual research student monitoring exercise: code of good practice
• Presentation of Theses/Dissertations for Degrees in the Faculty of Graduate Research: Statement of Procedures
• Presentation of dissertations for the degree of Masters (excluding MPhil): statement of procedures
• Employment of postgraduate research students: code of good practice
• Taught postgraduate degrees and awards assessment procedures 

Assessment

• Assessment of students with disability or injury: procedures
• Procedures for the Setting and Submission of Assessment
• Mitigation Committees: Code of Good Practice (effective from 1 January 2012)
• Mitigation Committees (effective from 1 August 2010)
• Unsatisfactory progress: code of good practice
• Undergraduate degrees and awards: assessment procedures
• Disclosure of assessment results and marks: advice and statement of procedures
• Boards of examiners for degrees by research: code of good practice
• External examiners (taught programmes of study): code of good practice
• Board of examiners for taught programmes of study: code of good practice
• Managing Academic Misconduct (including plagiarism, cheating and collusion): code of practice
• Student academic appeals
• Prizes: statement of procedures
• Supplementary guidance on assessment, marking and feedback including:
  Assessment and Feedback
  Marking strategy
  Marking criteria
  Marking the work of students diagnosed with dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties (where competence of language is not being assessed)
  Drafts; feedback and marking
  Scaling of marks
• Generic University Assessment Criteria for Taught Programmes: Guidance Notes for Staff
• Award of undergraduate degrees with language proficiency

Monitoring and Review

• Evaluating teaching: guidelines and good practice
• Peer review of teaching: guidelines
• Annual programme monitoring of taught programmes of study: procedures
• Annual review of research degree provision: procedures
• Annual review of modules: code of good practice
• Taught Student/staff liaison committees: code of good practice
• PGR Liaison Forum: code of good practice
• Student complaints procedure
• External examiners' reports (taught programmes of study): statement of procedures
• External evaluation of University programmes: code of good practice
• Periodic Subject Review Scheme
• Appointment of External Assessors for Periodic Subject Review: code of good practice 
• College Library Liaison Officer: notes on good practice

Procedures relating to Collaborative Provision

Establishing a New Partnership: Procedures and Guidance for Colleges

• Introduction to Establishing an Academic Partnership in the UK or Internationally
• Procedures for Colleges Wishing to Establish an Academic Partnership (UK or International)
• Procedures for the Approval of Joint Awards and Programmes
• Guide to Defining Academic Partnerships 

Approval of Partner Institution

• Procedures for External Institutions Wishing to Establish an Academic Partnership with the University of Exeter for The Delivery of Academic Programmes/ Modules of Study
• Partnership Proposal Panel
• Visits to Institutions Regarding Establishing an Academic Partnership

Co-ordinators:

• Partnership Quality Co-ordinators and Programme Link Managers - taught programmes
• Statement of Procedures: Partnership Quality Co-ordinators' reports - taught programmes
• Partnership Quality Co-ordinators' visit report
• Partnership Quality Co-ordinators' annual report

Partnership Boards:

• Partnership Boards

Programme Directors:

• Partner institution Programme Directors role - taught programmes

Assessment Procedures:

• Examination Procedures for Collaborative Programmes/Modules - Responsibilities of the Partner Institution
• Examination Procedures for Collaborative Programmes/Modules - Responsibilities of the University

Annual Programme Monitoring:

• Procedures for Annual Programme Monitoring of taught programmes
• Annual Cycle of Programme Monitoring and Audit
• New Programme Monitoring Report Form 
• Annual Monitoring of Programmes: Programme Report Form
• Annual Programme Monitoring: Audit Report Form
• New Programmes - Table 1: APM Statistical Indicators
• UG Programme Report Table 2: APM Statistical Indicators
• PGT Programme Table 3: APM Statistical Indicators

Publicity and Marketing:

• Procedures for University Approval of Publicity and Marketing for Collaborative Programmes and Modules of Study
• Programme Handbooks - contents