Learning and Teaching Committee

Subject: Teaching Quality Information (TQI) web-site

Learning and Teaching Committee is invited to note developments that have taken place in relation to the TQI web-site since the previous meeting.

Qualitative Information

Internal review (ie PPR) reports from Chemical Engineering, Economics, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, SSES, and Human Sciences have been placed on the live website; it now includes all 9 PPR reports produced since the introduction of the current PPR process
External; examiners’ report summaries in respect of postgraduate programmes should be published by the end of June: Academic Registry will shortly circulate details from TQI template reports completed by relevant external examiners to enable departments to produce these summaries for ratification by the external programme assessors concerned prior to publication
A statement on the University’s external examiner report structure is ready for publication on the site

HESA data

After many delays, the first set of HESA quantitative data, relating to 2002/03, has been published on the live site; some of Loughborough’s data have been suppressed for this year only, at our request, as the way in which it had been returned to HESA was potentially misleading
An institutional commentary on the data has also been published
HEFCE has consulted institutions on the subject structure for organising data on the site, including data from the National Student Survey, the result of which is the creation of two intermediary levels between the 19 main subject areas and the 143 principal subjects, with a classification based on 38 subjects being the primary option offered to users for navigating the site
2003/04 student data, configured to the new subject structure, is scheduled for previewing by HEIs from mid June 2005 and to go live at the end of August
Student destination (DLHE) data relating to 2002/03 were made available for preview, but these have also to be reconfigured to the new subject structure; the data should also go live at the end of August

National Student Survey

The results of the National Student Survey 2005 will be incorporated into the site from late summer

Developments in relation to the National Student Survey are covered in a separate paper

FECs

BackEnd Users Group (BUG)

A group has been established comprising representatives of a cross section of users, to provide a formal channel of communication with institutional TQI contacts

Launch of the site

A marketing group is meeting to consider how the TQI site is to be officially launched: the launch is scheduled for September 2005. Reference to the site in a new UCAS guide on choosing a course has already been put in hand.

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