Programme Specification – Master Fashion ... - Istituto Marangoni

All students are asked to provide feedback at the end of each unit of study as well as atthe end of the entire programme.Student observations are considered through the tutorial systems and through the studentvoice on Programme Committees. Questionnaires are also used to elicit students’ viewsand opinions. The data gathered from all of these mechanisms is used in the ContinuousMonitoring & Improvement Report and forms part of the development of the ProgrammeImprovement Plan.As detailed previously Student Representatives are elected each year to act as the student‘voice’ at Programme Committee meetings. It is the task of the Programme Leader toensure that student representatives are fully aware of their role and responsibilities, andshould support them in the fulfilment of their duties.The role of student representatives is:• To bring key issues concerning the management of the programme (includinglearning, teaching, assessment and learning support) to the attention of theprogramme team;• To represent their fellow students;• To participate in the Continuous Monitoring and Improvement planning as membersof the Programme Committee;• To provide advice to the programme team on issues relating to the quality of thestudent learning experience;• To provide advice to the programme team on the operation of processes for thepolling of student opinion on the learning experience, its analysis, response andpublication;• To be consulted about proposals for programme development;• To be members of the student/staff liaison committee.34 Engagement with EmployersThe Programme Team engages with employers on a regular basis, through a variety ofmeans. As the majority of tutors on this programme are professional practitioners theybring with them a wealth of current information and a practitioner’s perspective on therapidly changing industry. There is a programme of guest lectures, company visits,industry seminars and study visits toInternational trade shows, which further embed industry practices and enable students toform valuable links and contacts with potential employers.Such industry collaborations produce outputs which may gain external visibility forstudents and their work.Programme Specification October 2012Page 24 of 26