Teaching quality assurance manual (TQA Manual)

Taught Programmes - Staff Information

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 Students

• Dissertation or Project Supervision/Tuition for the Degree of Masters (Excluding MPhil programmes): code of good practice
• Changes to registration status for taught postgraduate students: statement of procedures
• Presentation of dissertations for the degree of Masters (excluding MPhil): statement of procedures
• 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
• 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 modules: code of good practice
• Taught Student/staff liaison committees: 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
• College Library Liaison Officer: notes on good practice