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Academic and Research Services provides administrative support for the University's management of its quality and standards, including the provision of a secretariat for University committees with responsibility for regulations and codes of practice, academic review, and the development of learning and teaching.  Support for the development of policy and procedures is integrated with the discharge of operational responsibilities. 

A description of the University's Approach to Quality Management  including the statutory framework and an overview of the roles of key committees can be found here: University's Approach to Quality Management 

A list of staff in the Academic Secretariat and Quality Assurance Office can be found here.

Documentation

The Learning and Teaching Strategy defines the desired attributes of a Leicester graduate, and the means and underlying structures necessary to enable students to acquire those attributes.

The University's Qualifications Framework

Programme Specifications

Module Specifications

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Regulations, including Distance-learning Regulations

Codes of Practice including: Procedures for approval of New Programmes and New Modules, Annual Monitoring, Departmental Review, Assessment, Admissions Procedures

Best Practice Guidelines including: the Production of Departmental Handbooks, Work of Staff/Student Committees, the Personal Tutor System for Undergraduates, the University Protocol on Student Feedback.

Curriculum Change Procedures

First Section Committee Minutes including the Academic Review Committee, the Learning and Teaching Committee and the Standing Committee of Deans

QAA reports of insitutional audits and subject level reviews and a profile of QAA Subject Review Scores: graphical version and chart version

The University's Graduate Surveys 2003 (Campus and DL)

The University's Graduate Surveys 2004 (Campus and DL)

The University's Graduate Surveys 2005 (Campus and DL)

Other Links

Learning and Teaching Technology Section (part of the Computer Centre)

Staff Development Centre 

QAA National Qualifications Framework

QAA Benchmark Statements

QAA Codes of Practice

The Cooke Report on Information on Quality and Standards in Higher Education

Handbook for the new QAA method

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