New annual monitoring process for taught pathways for implementation from September 2011

This web page provides a brief overview of the new annual monitoring process and its key features. A timetale of the four stages of the process is provided and archive information relating to the annual monitoring in previous academic years can be accessed including the examples of good and innovative practice identified during each round.

Annual Monitoring Process
Annual Monitoring Process: extract from the Senate Code of Practice under revision
Annual Monitoring Timetable
Annual Monitoring in Previous Academic Years

 

Rationale for Change to the Annual Monitoring Process

Following the introduction of a series of meetings in Autumn 2010 which scrutinised a range of management information for each Department, the Senate determined that further consideration should be given as to whether this approach could be adapted to replace our current annual monitoring process as part of the drive to make our quality assurance processes more data driven and less reliant on narrative reports.

In June 2011, the Senate approved a proposal that the current annual monitoring process be discontinued and replaced with a Department-focused process with the following features:

• Provision of an information set to Departments in early October comprising quantitative and qualitative information for review by key Department colleagues
• Written Programme Annual Monitoring Reports replaced with a two hour meeting, held with each Anglia Ruskin Department in late October/early November, to discuss a variety of management information pertaining to performance in the Department at module and pathway levels
• Each meeting is held between an Annual Monitoring Panel and the Head/Deputy Head of Department and Programme Leaders in the Department and the Dean/Deputy Dean of Faculty.
• The Academic Office will produce a summary of each meeting including details of actions. These reports will be submitted to the Faculty Quality & Standards Standing Committees.
• The Head of Quality Assurance will produce on overall summary of the process for the attention of the January meeting of the Quality & Standards Committee and the February meeting of the Senate, highlighting any institutional level actions that are required.
• The process will be completed earlier than is currently the case (February instead of April/May).
  
  The proposed new method is outlined in the attached document which was received and approved by the Quality and Standards Committee at its meeting of 18th May 2011 and formally approved for implementation by the Senate on 22 June 2011. The attached document will form Section 3 of the new Senate Code of Practice on Curriculum Approval and Review (for publication in September 2011).

The Academic Office will shortly be contacting relevant Faculty colleagues with a view to agreeing dates in late October/early November for the Department Annual Monitoring meetings.

 

The Annual Monitoring Process

The annual monitoring of taught pathways at Anglia Ruskin is conducted during September and January in each academic year.

The annual monitoring process provides a formal opportunity for review, reflection and evaluation of the delivery of modules and pathways at all locations within a Department* in the previous academic year and for identifying actions for enhancement.

*with the exception of provision within the Lord Ashcroft International Business School which will be monitored using the Programme as the more appropriate organisational unit for the School.

The key focal points of the process are:

• Maintenance of Anglia Ruskin’s University’s academic standards
• The extent of student achievement of the intended learning outcomes
• The student experience and quality of educational support to students
• The review of the impact of deliberative actions undertaken to enhance and improve delivery
• The identification of good practice in learning, teaching and assessment

Pathways (which may be delivered at more than one location by both Anglia Ruskin and its partner institutions) are monitored as a group within the Anglia Ruskin curriculum management organisational unit of the Department* to which they have been assigned.

The process is conducted and co-ordinated by the Academic Office, on behalf of the Senate.

Full details of the process is contained within the Senate Code of Practice on Curriculum Approval and Review. due to be published in September 2011, in the meantime the relevant extract can be accessed here.

The Annual Monitoring Timetable

The timetable below outlines the four stages to the annual monitoring process as follows:

Stage & timing	Core provision	Partner institution provision
Stage 1 (early October)	Provision of information set (which covers both core and collaborative provision) to each Department by the Academic Office Preparation of a summary report by the Department for review by the Quality and Standards (QSC) Annual Monitoring Panel	Provision of information set (which covers partner’s provision only) to each partner institution by the Academic Office   Preparation of a summary report by the Partner Institution for review by its own Curriculum Management Committee
Stage 2 (October/November)	Meeting of the QSC Annual Monitoring Panel with each Department to consider the information set and Departmental summary report and to agree a Department action plan	Each partner institution Curriculum Management Committee meets to consider the summary report and to agree an action plan arising from the report
Stage 3 (December)	Faculty Quality and Standards Subcommittees meet to: consider the summaries of relevant Department meetings and associated action plans; consider the summary reports from relevant partner institutions and associated action plans
Stage 4 (January)	QSC Annual Monitoring Panel meets to: consider the summaries of all Department meetings and associated action plans; consider the summary reports of all partner institutions and associated action plans; The purpose of the above review is to draw out any items of institutional significance and to identify any actions required.

 

For further information please do not hesitate to contact Caroline Watts, Head of QAU or Olivia Sjollema, Instituional Quality Assurance Officer.

 

Annual Monitoring in Previous Academic Years

Details of the annual monitoring processes conducted in previous years can be accessed by clicking on the appropriate links below:

Annual Monitoring Summary Report (for taught pathways delivered in 2009/10)
Examples of Good and Innovative Practice from 2009/10

Annual Monitoring Summary Report (for taught pathways delivered in 2008/09)
Examples of Good and Innovative Practice from 2008/09

Annual Monitoring Summary Report (for taught pathways delivered in 2007/08)
Examples of Good and Innovative Practice from 2007/08

Annual Monitoring Summary Report (for taught pathways delivered in 2006/07)
Examples of Good and Innovative Practice from 2006/07

Annual Monitoring Summary Report (for taught pathways delivered in 2005/06)
Examples of Good and Innovative Practice from 2005/06

Annual Monitoring Summary Report (for taught pathways delivered in 2004/05)
Examples of Good and Innovative Practice from 2004/05

Annual Monitoring Summary Report (for taught pathways delivered in 2003/04)

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