Origin: Validation Working Group
The
Validation Working Group at its meeting on 10 November 2006 considered revisions to the current Validation Procedure, intended to meet the
request of Learning and Teaching Committee that it should have the opportunity
of considering matters of principle at an early stage. The minute of the Group’s discussion is
set out below. Learning and Teaching
Committee is invited to recommend the revised Validation Procedure to Senate
(as attached), and to respond to the other points raised by the Working Group.
Noted
(i)
That the revisions would apply to proposals to
validate additional programmes at an existing partner institution, as well as
proposals involving new validation partnerships, and allow LTC to be alerted to
any matters of principle raised by a new programme before the proposal was
referred for more detailed consideration.
(ii)
That the opportunity had also been taken to write in
to the procedure the arrangements for departmental support that were already
part of the Policy on Collaborative Programmes.
Recommended
That the
revised Validation Procedure be approved.
Resolved to report the view of the Working Group:
(i) That formal procedures of a similar
kind should be put in place for handling collaborative programme arrangements
that did not involve validation, including relevant international partnerships;
(ii) That in this context the Code of
Practice for Collaborative Provision and the associated ‘Quality
Assurance Statement’ should be reviewed and consideration given to
drawing together all the collaborative procedures, including validation, under
an overarching document;
(iii) That consideration should also be given
to the replacement of the Working Group on Validation with a standing committee
on collaborative provision.
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