Academic Office

 

Welcome to the Academic Office's webpages. We hope you find these pages both interesting and useful.

The Academic Office is one of 12 Support Services within Anglia Ruskin University and is led by the Director, Paul Baxter. Based at the Chelmsford and Cambridge campuses, the Academic Office comprises seven units which individually and collectively support a wide range of academic activity and provide access to a variety of relevant publications and information which are designed to help the staff and students of Anglia Ruskin University and its UK and international collaborative partners.

 

Units within the Academic Office

Academic Appeals Unit

Academic Secretariat

Assessment & Conferment Unit

Examinations Unit

Quality Assurance Division

Research Degrees Unit

Strategic Planning and Policy Unit

 

The Role of the Academic Office

The role of the Academic Office is to:

• manage the process of academic governance through which the Senate and its Standing Committees exercise institutional oversight of academic standards and quality at Anglia Ruskin University

• manage the publication, development and implementation of the Academic Regulations and Research Degree Regulations which define Anglia Ruskin's academic standards and govern delivery of its academic awards

• manage:

- the operation of Anglia Ruskin's examinations

- the assessment of students' academic progress and subsequent decisions about their awards

- the provision of academic transcripts and award certificates

• manage the resolution of academic appeals and alleged assessment offences by students

• develop, implement, monitor and review internal quality assurance systems and processes, approved by the Senate, to ensure that academic standards and quality are set and maintained at an appropriate level and satisfy the requirements and expectations of national agencies and the appropriate professional, statutory and regulatory bodies (PSRBs)

• manage the quality assurance of Anglia Ruskin's research degree programmes

• provide strategic planning and policy support to the Vice Chancellor's Group and senior managers in Faculties and Support Services in the development of Anglia Ruskin's Vision and the policies which underpin its delivery and implementation

 

Publications and Information:

These webpages include a separate section for each of the Academic Office’s seven Units, providing more information on the work of each of Unit, their staff and the processes for which they are responsible. They provide access to a variety of relevant publications, proformas and other documents which are designed to help the staff and students of Anglia Ruskin University and its UK and international collaborative partners.

Direct links to some of these key publications are provided below:

• Academic Regulations

• Corporate Plan 2009-2011

• Curriculum Management Information

• Definitive list of approved pathways leading to an Anglia Ruskin award

• Quality Assurance and Enhancement at Anglia Ruskin University - An Overview

• Senate Codes of Practice (and associated Procedural Documents)

 

If you have any comments or suggestions about the Academic Office’s webpages, please detail these in an e-mail message to the Director of the Academic Office.

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