Quality assurance

The QA responsibilities of individual members of the School’s teaching staff are:

• gathering student comment on their courses via a feedback questionnaire (and sometimes via additional means) each time a course runs
• analysing student performance data in writing, each time a course runs, via the completion of a Course Monitoring Form
• analysing student and external comment on their courses in writing, each time a course runs, via the completion of a Course Monitoring Form
• adjusting their teaching methods and/or courses in the light of these and other sources of information relating to learning and teaching quality.
• participating in 'peer observation of teaching'.

Find out about our peer obsergvation processes:  Peer observation of teaching

The QA responsibilities of the Director of Quality are:

• sitting on and liaising with College Quality Assurance Committee (CQAC) on behalf of the School Management Committee
• overseeing the implementation of CQAC directives and decisions in the Subject Areas and Graduate School
• sitting on the Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Committees and the Boards of Studies
• chairing the Curriculum and QA committee
• advising management and staff on QA compliance
• supplying CQAC with any required information, especially an annual report outlining the School's QA activities.