Learning and Teaching Committee
LTC07-A1
NOTICE OF MEETING
A meeting of the Committee will take place on Thursday 15 February 2007 at 9.30 am
in the Council Chamber,
Administration Building 2.
R A Bowyer, Secretary
AGENDA
1. Apologies for Absence
2. Business of the Agenda
Any member wishing to unstar an
item is asked to notify the Secretary by 5.00 pm on Tuesday 13 February 2007.
Starred items will otherwise be taken without discussion.
Please note that the papers for this Agenda can be found on the web site
linked to the following URL: -
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/committees/learning_teaching/index.htm
Normally, papers for Section A
only will be circulated in hard copy.
3. Minutes
To confirm, subject to the
addition of David Twigg to those present and any other correction, the Minutes
of the Meeting of the Committee held on 9 November 2006.
4. Matters
Arising from the Minutes not otherwise appearing on the Agenda
*4.1 Senate actions
To note that
Senate approved the recommendations of the Committee in the following matters:
(i)
Terms of Reference of the Committee (M.06/54)
(ii)
Group work – Policy statement (M.06/61)
(iii)
New programmes and strategic changes (M.06/64)
(iv)
Student Appeals – amendments to Regulation XIV
(M.06/65.1)
(v)
Postgraduate Awards – amendments to Regulation
XXI (M.06/65.2)
4.2 Any other matters arising not appearing elsewhere on the
agenda
SECTION A – ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
5. Condonement
To consider a
review of the use of ‘condonement’ for undergraduate students in session
2005/06.
6. Academic Credit
To consider proposals from the Programme Development & Quality
Team.
7.
To receive a briefing paper.
8. Validation
Procedure
To recommend to Senate a revised validation procedure, on
the recommendation of the Validation Working Group, and to consider associated
proposals.
9. Loughborough College - Validation of additional FD pathways
in Sports Performance
To receive outline proposals from Loughborough College for
the introduction of further pathways within the Foundation Degree in Sports
Performance, together with the comments of the School of Sport & Exercise
Sciences, and to authorise the Chair to establish a validation panel.
10.
10.1
Institutional Validation
LTC07-P6 – to follow
To receive a summary of the report of the institutional
validation panel.
10.2
Regulations for Progression and Reassessment, BUE
LTC07-P7 – to follow
To consider proposed regulations on progression and
reassessment for programmes at BUE.
11. Feedback to students on their work
To consider proposals from the Programme Development &
Quality Team.
12. Learning
Spaces
To receive a report from the Director of Media Services.
SECTION B – ITEMS FOR APPROVAL
*13. Curriculum Sub-Committee – 18 January 2007
(A)
To recommend new programme proposals and other strategic changes to Senate on the advice of Curriculum Sub-Committee.
*14. Award
of PGCE on MSc in Education with QTS
To recommend that students entering Year 2 having completed
the PGCE element be permitted to retain their PGCE award.
*15. FD in Exercise, Health and Fitness with
Management
To approve a change in the validation review arrangements
for the above.
SECTION C – ITEMS
FOR INFORMATION
*16. Curriculum Sub-Committee – 18 January 2007 (B)
To note further discussions of the Sub-Committee.
*17. National Student Survey
2007
To receive a briefing note.
*18. Student Feedback – Support Services 2005/06
To receive a report from the Head of Academic Practice and
Quality, Professional Development, on student feedback 2005/06 in relation to
the support services.
*19. Calculators in University Examinations
To note actions taken during the 2006-07 semester one
examination period on issues arising from the implementation of the ‘approved
list’ of calculators.
*20. International Science and Engineering
Foundation Programme
To note that articulation agreements have been entered into
with
*21. Review of the Quality Assurance Framework;
Development of TQI and the NSS
To receive
a summary of key points from the outcomes of phase two of the review of the
Quality Assurance Framework and plans to improve the TQI and NSS initiatives.
*22. QAA Institutional Audit
To note that the QAA has confirmed the following dates for
Loughborough’s next institutional audit:
·
Briefing
visit – week commencing 4 February 2008
·
Audit
visit – week commencing 10 March 2008
*23. Date of Next
Meeting
7 June 2007 at 9.30am
24. Any Other Business
Author – Robert Bowyer
Date – February 2007
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