london & paris programme specification BA ... - Istituto Marangoni

MMU Programme Specification – Fashion Design
Student feedback is essential to programme development and student comments are used to
enhance both the successful management of the programme and the teaching/learning strategies.
Istituto Marangoni will gather student opinion in a variety of ways, both formal and informal.
A range of methods is available, which may include the following:
• Paper questionnaires
• Informal contact with Programme Leader and subject Tutor, for example during lectures and
seminars and through appointments with academic staff
• Brief ‘snapshots’ surveys for example, distributing ‘post-it’ notes in classes and inviting views on a
particular topic, with the results being reviewed and discussed, with the aim of responding to these
views as soon as possible and before the formal end of unit evaluation
• End of Unit Evaluation
• End of academic year internet questionnaires when students will be invited to reflect on their overall
experience in their campus. Issues will be taken to Programme Reflective Meetings and added to
the Annual Academic Monitoring Report
• Programme Committee
• Staff-Student Liaison Committees
Istituto Marangoni would prefer that on most occasions students be identified when giving constructive
feedback on the course and teaching methods. There might be occasions when it is not appropriate and IM
recognizes this exception. In these instances, programme teams and central support services will ensure that
anonymity and confidentiality is respected.
In order to ‘close the feedback loop’ and to communicate any improvements resulting from student
participation at least once every academic year, programme teams relate back to students the actions taken
in response to student views.
An online annual monitoring and evaluation akin to MMU’s.
Students will be asked to respond to a series of questions, for example, if they were clear about what they
were meant to be learning on the unit, if the teaching had helped them learn effectively and if they have
developed new or existing skills. The data will be analyzed and the Programme Leader will be required to
comment on:
• Key strengths and issues arising from student performance;
• Key strengths and issues arising from student feedback;
• Actions and improvements for the next academic year.
Programme Leaders will be required to respond to issues identified within
External Examiner reports, which require further action.
Appendix V
“Listening and responding to the student voice” goes into detail and maps out the
processes that are put into place.
34 Engagement with Employers
The Programme Team engages with employers on a regular basis, through a variety of means.
As the majority of tutors on this programme are professional practitioners they bring with them a
wealth of current information and a practitioner’s perspective on the rapidly changing industry.
When the possibility arises, competitions and industrial collaborations are organized in close
partnership with companies.
There is a programme of guest lectures, company visits, industry seminars and study visits to
international trade show which further embed industry practices and enables students to form valuable
links and contacts with potential employers.
Such industry collaborations produce out-puts which may gain external visibility for
students and their work.
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Programme Specification 16 of 18 April 2011