ACADEMIC OFFICE

Quality Assurance Unit

 

The Quality Assurance Unit is responsible for administering and facilitating the operation of Anglia Ruskin's quality assurance and enhancement policies and procedures. The Unit comprises a team of 21 staff. lead by the Head of Quality Assurance, Caroline Watts. The Unit is located at St. George House (2nd Floor) in Cambridge and Ashby House (2nd Floor) in Chelmsford.

The Unit's responsibilities include the co-ordination and administration of Anglia Ruskin's examinations, the management of the academic appeals process, procedures for the approval and review of collaborative partnerships, the approval of new pathways, annual monitoring and the appointment and induction of External Examiners. The Unit provides advice and guidance on the development of quality assurance and enhancement policies and procedures and coordinates visits by external bodies, for example the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). We also provide administrative support to Faculties for visits by Professional, Statutory or Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs).

Further information on the activities of the Quality Assurance Unit is available below:

Academic Appeals

Annual Monitoring

Approval of new pathways

Collaborative Provision (including Institutional Approval, Institutional Review, Register of Teaching Staff and Student Experience Visits)

Curriculum Revisions

Curriculum Planning Approvals Process

Curriculum and Planning Decisions (Corporate Management Team & Quality and Standards Committee)

Examinations

External Examining

Quality Enhancement Audit

Reports of Approval Events in 2010/11

Staff Development

 

Publications and Guidance Notes:

Academic Regulations

Module Guide Template

Guidelines on the content of a Student Handbook

Senate Codes of Practice (and associated Procedural Documents)

 

 

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