Learning and
Teaching Committee
LTC08-A3
NOTICE OF MEETING
A meeting of the Committee will take place on Thursday 6 November 2008 at 9.30 am
in the Council Chamber,
Administration Building 2.
Robert Bowyer, Secretary
AGENDA
1. Welcome to new members
2. Apologies for absence
3. Business on the agenda
Any member wishing to unstar an
item is asked to notify the Secretary by 5.00 pm on Tuesday 4 November 2008.
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 > Meetings:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/committees/learning_teaching/index.htm
Normally, papers for Section A
only will be circulated in hard copy.
4. Minutes
To confirm the Minutes of the Meeting
of the Committee held on 5 June 2008.
5. Matters
arising from the Minutes not otherwise appearing on the agenda
*5.1 Senate actions
To note that Senate
(a) approved the
recommendations of the Committee in the following matters:
(i)
Loughborough Employability Award (M.08/29)
(ii)
Undergraduate Reassessment (M.08/33)
(iii)
New programmes and strategic changes (M.08/38)
(iv)
Membership of the Committee (M.08/44)
(b) noted the
summary of the findings from the draft report on the QAA Institutional Audit
(M.08/24), and
(c) received the
report on the operation of the Regulation XIV appeals procedure in 2007
(M.08/35).
5.2 Any other matters arising not appearing elsewhere on the
agenda
SECTION A – ITEMS
FOR DISCUSSION
6. Terms
of reference
To consider the terms of reference of the Committee with
a view to reflecting on:
(i) their
fitness for purpose
(ii) members’
responsibilities.
7. Priorities
for 2008/09
To identify priority issues for the Committee in
2008/09.
8. Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
To receive reports on developments
in the campus CETLs in the past year.
8.1 engCETL
8.2 sigma
LTC08-P38 (see web links)
Copies of the sigma
newsletter and the MEC annual report, which comprise the agenda paper, can be
found at:
http://www.sigma-cetl.ac.uk/index.php?section=96
http://mec.lboro.ac.uk/documents/6th_mec_annual_report.pdf
9. Learning and Teaching Spaces
To receive and consider reports from Anne Mumford on the
following:
9.1 Learning space developments
9.2 Formalising the development priorities
for learning and teaching space
9.3 Further analysis of teaching space survey
– attendance levels
9.4 Timetabling and room allocation
10. Periodic Programme Review Reports
To consider the reports of PPRs held
during the spring of 2008 and the responses of the departments concerned:
10.1 Chemical Engineering
10.2 Mathematical Sciences
10.3 Physics
10.4 Economics
10.5 Social Sciences
11.
To
consider the report of a Validation Panel on proposals for a Loughborough
University International Foundation Programme at
12.
Curriculum
Sub-Committee, 17 October 2008 (A)
To provide guidance to the Sub-Committee on the issue of
inter-departmental collaboration in module/programme provision.
13. Credit
values of
To consider
recommendations from the Programme Quality Team concerning the credit values of
University awards.
14. Assessment
flexibility policy for elite athletes
LTC08-P51a, LTC08-P51b, LTC08-P51c
To consider on the recommendation of Programme Quality Team a proposed
assessment flexibility policy for elite athletes.
15. Emergency planning and business
continuity
To consider how the Committee should
contribute to the development of plans.
SECTION B – ITEMS FOR APPROVAL
*16. Curriculum Sub-Committee, 17 October 2008 (B)
To recommend new programme proposals and other strategic changes to Senate on the advice of Curriculum Sub-Committee.
*17. Regulation
XVIII, Academic Misconduct
To endorse recommendations for amendments to Regulation
XVIII, for approval by Senate.
*18. Validated
programmes at Loughborough College
To recommend to Senate the introduction of a new version of
the Honours ‘top-up’ degree to lead to the degree of BSc in Applied Sports
Science (Management) for validation with effect from session 2009/10.
*19. End
of programme feedback
To consider a recommendation from the Programme Quality Team
that the University requirement on departments to collect end of programme
feedback be lifted.
SECTION C – ITEMS
FOR INFORMATION
*20. Constitution and membership
To note.
*21. Curriculum Sub-Committee – 17 October 2008 (C)
To note further discussions of the Sub-Committee.
*22. E-learning Advisory Group
To note the establishment of the
group and draft terms of reference.
*23. Teaching Centre
To receive an update.
*24. Student Hub
To receive an update.
*25. QAA Institutional Audit 2008
To note the publication of the
Report of the QAA Institutional Audit at
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/reviews/reports/instReports.asp?instID=H-0152
*26. National Student Survey
2008
To note that for a fourth year, the University achieved
excellent results in the National Student Survey. A range of data has been circulated
internally, including Loughborough’s results at subject level on Question 22
(‘overall satisfaction’) and results at departmental level on all questions
with a comparison against the equivalent results from 2007. 91% of Loughborough students responding rated
their overall satisfaction at 4 or 5 on a five-point scale. The University also had a response rate of
80%.
*27. Publications
To note the publication of the
following:
27.1
The framework for higher education qualifications in
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/FHEQ/default.asp
27.2
Higher education credit framework for
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/england/credit/default.asp
*28. Dates of Meetings 2008/09
To note the dates of further
meetings in 2008/09, due to start at 9.30am:
Thursday 12
February 2009
Thursday 4
June 2009
29. Any Other Business
Author – Robert Bowyer
Date – October 2008
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