Welcome to Quality and Standards A to Z

Please use the links below to find an A-Z of useful links and documents relating to quality and standards.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V /W XYZ

A

• Academic Board
• Academic Regulations
• Accessible Curricula
• Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) Policy
  • APEL application form - undergraduate/postgraduate
  • APEL credit transfer form - undergraduate/postgraduate
  • APCL application form - undergraduate/postgraduate
  • APCL credit transfer form - undergraduate/postgraduate
• Annual monitoring - for review at AQSC on 14 June
• Appeals procedure
• Approval
• AQSC
  • AQSC papers and minutes
  • AQSC meetings 2011/2012
• Assessment
  • Sharing good practice :assessment (HEA Centre for Bioscience bulletin: Feedback & Feed-Forward, Autumn 2007)
  • Assessment of students' work - guidance/good practice
• Assessment Policy

B

NONE

C

• Collaborative Provision:
  • Register of Collaborative Provision
  • International: policy and process
  • National: policy and process
• Committees
  • Academic Quality and Standards Committee
  • Learning and Teaching Committee
  • Student Representatives Committee
• Complaints Procedure
• Course Approval and Planning
• Course Approval and Planning Handbook
• Course Planning - Approval pro forma

D

NONE

E

• E-learning Strategy 2011/14
• Equality of Opportunity - for inclusion in Student Handbooks
• Erasmus
• Exam Boards
• External Accountability
  • Institutional Audit 2008
  • Ofsted Results 2008
• External Examiners:
  • Report templates:
    • Undergraduate
    • PGCE
    • Masters/PMP
  • External examiners and Minerva
  • Expenses form
• External panel members and external advisers - nomination forms:
  • Academic
  • Employer

F

NONE

G

• Glossary
• Guidelines for Staff on the Provision of Academic References

H

• Higher Degrees Committee (Research)
• Higher Degrees Committee (Taught)

I

• Institutional Audit

J

NONE

K

NONE

L

• Learning and Teaching Committee
  • Learning and Teaching Committee - papers and minutes
  • Learning and Teaching Committee meetings 2011/12
  • Learning and Teaching Committee - publications
• Learning and Teaching Strategy
• Link Tutor Responsibilities - updated May 2012
• LIS - guidance on new courses/modules and minor modifications

M

• Maintenance of standards
• Minerva - guidelines on minimum standards for accessibility
• Minor Modifications - updated April 2012
  • Minor Modifications - checklist  - updated April 2012
  • Minor Modifications - summary for AQSC
  • Module descriptor template
• Moderation/Second marking and external examiners
• Moderation proforma
• Modular Scheme - Guide to Assessment
• Modular Scheme Committee
• Modular Scheme - Guide for Students
• Module Descriptor - template
• Module Evaluation Questionnaire
• Module Evaluation Guidance
• Module Handbook - template

N

• National Student Survey

O

• Ofqual - Regulatory arrangements for the Qualifications and Credit Framework
• Organisational Structure
• Outline plans
  • Outline plans -2011/12

P

• Peer review and development of academic practice
  • Guidance to staff
  • Peer review form 1
  • Peer review form 2
• Periodic review
• Personal Development Planning Policy
  • Open University module - Make your experience count: Sharing good practice: personal development/reflective practice

• Personal Tutoring
• Plagiarism
• Purposes and Principles of Quality Assurance

Q

• QAA
• QAA Codes of Practice
• Quality Management Processes - diagram
• Quality policy

R

• Referencing (Guidance for Student Handbook)
• Regulations
• Research
• Retention of student work - Student work should be retained for three years

S

• Scholarship and Research at Bath Spa University
  • Research Strategy 2009/2012 (.pdf)
• School Boards
• Second marking/moderation and external examiners
• Self evaluation document - guidance
  • Example of self evaluation document - Music / Business & Management
• Sharing/double coding of modules
• Staff development
• Student Engagement
• Student Handbooks 2011/12
• Student Handbook template - revised April 2012
• Student Representatives Committee
• Student Reviewers
• Student Survey - 1st and 2nd years
  • Results page - 2009/10
  • Results page - 2008/9
• Subject review results

T

• Taught Postgraduate Framework

U

• UGMS
• Unfair practice
• University Title - application

V

NONE

W

• Western Vocational Lifelong Learning Network (WVLLN)
• Work-based and Placement Learning Policy
• Work-based and Placement Learning - examples of handbooks:
  • BA (Hons) Early Years Education (work-based)
  • BA (Hons) Applied Art & Design (work-based)
  • Business and Management - Year in Business
  • Business and Management - Summer Placement Programme

XYZ

NONE