Learning and Teaching Committee

LTC07-A1

Agendas


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

LTC06-M3

 

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

LTC07-P1

To consider a review of the use of ‘condonement’ for undergraduate students in session 2005/06.

 

6.         Academic Credit

            LTC07-P2

            To consider proposals from the Programme Development & Quality Team.

 

7.         Bologna Process

            LTC07-P3

To receive a briefing paper.

 

8.         Validation Procedure

            LTC07-P4, LTC07-P4a

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

LTC07-P5, LTC07-P5a

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.       British University in Egypt

           

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

            LTC07-P8

To consider proposals from the Programme Development & Quality Team.

 

12.       Learning Spaces

LTC07-P9

To receive a report from the Director of Media Services.

 


 

SECTION B – ITEMS FOR APPROVAL

*13.     Curriculum Sub-Committee – 18 January 2007 (A)

LTC07-P10

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

            LTC07-P11

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

LTC07-P12

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)

LTC07-P13

To note further discussions of the Sub-Committee.

 

*17.     National Student Survey 2007

LTC07-P14

To receive a briefing note.

 

*18.     Student Feedback – Support Services 2005/06

LTC07-P15

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

            LTC07-P16

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 Loughborough College and Castle College, Notts, to allow international students successfully completing a foundation programme at either College guaranteed progression to the first year of a degree programme at the University.

 

*21.     Review of the Quality Assurance Framework; Development of TQI and the NSS

            LTC07-P17

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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