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Monitoring and Reporting of Postgraduate Research Provision.
3.2 Expanded guidance on scope of monitoring of collaborative provision.
3.3 In addition to existing monitoring and review of CPD, where relevant,
annual monitoring and review of Massive Open Online courses and other
provision that sits outside UoE degree programmes.
3.4 Inclusion in scope of reflection on student performance and achievement
entrants through flexible SCQF credit arrangements (entrants from
further education, entrants with advanced standing and part-time
students); entrants through Widening Participation. Specific reflection in
relation to performance and achievement data on home, EU and
international students.
3.5 Summary of themes from External Examiners’ reports replaces previous
‘feedback from External Examiner Reports’.
3.6 To reflect revised QAA Quality Code Chapter on Student Engagement
and SFC Guidance: Scope now covers student engagement in College
and School quality and other processes, including learning
developments, more broadly rather than previous focus on feedback
from students. With regard to annual trends, Colleges should include a
reflection on the key themes in relation to the study abroad experience,
where relevant.
With regard to gathering and responding to feedback from students,
attention is drawn to the new University Principles for Learning From and
Responding to the Student Voice.
3.7 To reflect revisions to internal subject review processes: overview of
progress towards meeting recommendations from reviews, to include
identification of any barriers to completion.
3.8 External Reviews, including accreditation reviews. Clarification that this
section should contain issues arising and responses.
3.9 Peer observation of practice: Scope should not be restricted to classbased
teaching activity.
4.1 Wording changed in light of learning and teaching strategies being in
place for all Colleges.
4.3.1 Graduate attributes and employability: Requested by Employability
Steering Group: .addition of encouragement explicitly to surface good
practice relevant to students’ graduate attributes and employability.
Examples from annual School reports will be forwarded to the
Employability Steering Group.
4.3.2 Addition of reflection on progress towards implementing strands of the
Enhancing Student Support project.
4.3.3 Reflection on key themes arising from survey on feedback practice
completed by Schools as an appendix to their annual report.
4.3.4 Previous sections on Equality and Diversity and Accessible Learning
merged. Equality and Diversity reflection to include engagement with
and actions in support of the University Equality and Diversity Strategy
and Action Plan.
http://www.docs.csg.ed.ac.uk/EqualityDiversity/Strategy.pdf
Accessible Learning reflection to include mainstreaming of adjustments
and implementation of best practice. Reference to Distance Learning
students changed to e-learning students.
4.3.5 Section on Teaching and Learning spaces recast as ‘The physical and
digital learning and teaching environments’.
4.3.7 New section: Internationalisation: a reflection on any international