Learning and Teaching Committee
LTC07-A2
NOTICE OF MEETING
A meeting of the Committee will take place on Thursday 7 June 2007 at 9.30 am in
the Council Chamber,
Administration Building 2.
Robert 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 5 June 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
LTC07-M1
To confirm the Minutes of the
Meeting of the Committee held on 15 February 2007.
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)
Academic Credit (M.07/5)
(ii)
Validation Procedures (M.07/7)
(iii)
BUE (M.07/9)
(iv)
Feedback to students on their work (M.07/10)
(v)
Award of PGCE on MSc in Education with QTS
(M.07/12)
(vi)
New programmes and strategic changes (M.07/13)
4.2 Any other matters arising not appearing elsewhere on the
agenda
SECTION A – ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
5. Learning and Teaching Implementation Plan
To receive and
comment on the Learning and Teaching Implementation Plan submitted by the
PVC(T) in support of the Institutional Strategy 2006-09.
6. Annual Programme Reviews
To consider reports from the AD(T)s on the Annual Programme Reviews in
their respective Faculties:
6.1 Engineering
6.2 Science
6.3 Social
Sciences and Humanities
7. Periodic
Programme Reviews
To consider reports of two PPRs held during the spring 2007
and the responses of the relevant departments:
7.1 Civil and Building Engineering
7.2 IPTME
8. The
8.1
Update on Institutional Validation
issues
LTC07-P24
To receive a report from a meeting of the BUE Project
Group/Institutional Validation Panel/Subject Validation Panel Chairs held on 18
May 2007.
8.2
Subject Validation Reports
To receive summaries of the reports of the two subject
validation panels, and advise Senate in the light of their recommendations:
.1 Business Studies,
Economics, Political Science, and Informatics and Computer Science
LTC07-P25
.2 Engineering
LTC07-P26
8.3
Monitoring and Review Arrangements
LTC07-P27
To consider
proposals and advise Senate accordingly.
9. Loughborough College - Validation of additional FD pathways
in Sports Performance
To consider the report of a Validation Panel on proposals
from Loughborough College for the addition of further pathways, in Athletics,
Football, Rugby and Swimming, to the Foundation Degree in Sports Performance,
10. Annual Report 2006 on Student Appeals under Regulation XIV
To receive a report.
11. Annual report on cases of Academic
Misconduct 2005/06
To receive a report.
12. Survey
of Academic Staff regarding Teaching Space
To receive a report from the Director of Media Services.
13. External Examiners
To consider proposals from the Programme Quality Team
concerning the sharing of External Examiners’ reports with student
representatives.
14. Condonement
Further to discussion at the previous meeting (M.07/4), to
consider a report from the Programme Quality Team concerning the Regulations on
condonement.
15. QAA Institutional Audit 2008
To receive a progress report on arrangements.
16. Employer engagement
LTC07-P35
To receive a report from the AD(T) Engineering on initial
discussions concerning a new partnership with industry.
SECTION B – ITEMS FOR APPROVAL
*17. Curriculum Sub-Committee – 10 May 2007 (A)
To recommend new programme proposals and other strategic changes to Senate on the advice of Curriculum Sub-Committee.
*18. ‘Stretched
degrees’ for elite sports students
To approve proposed procedures.
SECTION C – ITEMS
FOR INFORMATION
*19. Curriculum Sub-Committee – 10 May 2007 (B)
To note further discussions of the Sub-Committee.
*20. National Student Survey 2007
To note that Loughborough achieved a final response rate of
77.77%, by comparison with a rate of 59% across all participating institutions.
*21. Student Recruitment and Programme Quality
Teams
To note the following changes in the
titles of teams led by the PVC(T):
The Student Recruitment and Admissions (SRA) Team has been
renamed the Student Recruitment Team;
the Programme Development and Quality (PDQ) Team has been
renamed the Programme Quality Team.
*22.
Dates of Meetings 2007/08
To note the dates proposed for meetings of the Committee in
2007/08, all Thursdays:
8 November
2007
14 February
2008
5 June 2008
meetings to begin at 9.30am.
*23. Date of Next
Meeting
8 November 2007 at 9.30am
24. Any Other Business
Author – Robert Bowyer
Date – May 2007
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