Our Core Services
Introducing EPQ's Core Services
Our ongoing work is organised into 11 Core Services, which we are reviewing and developing to ensure they are fit for the future and support an increasingly diverse, flexible education portfolio. We have summarised those services and how you can access them here.
If you're not sure where to find what you are looking for, you can get in touch with the team via:
Our Quality and Partnerships Function
Curriculum Design, Approval and Management
Supporting the design and implementation of brilliant modules, courses and academic partnerships.
Design great courses using the Curriculum Development Toolkit
Propose new and amended courses for approval
Propose new and amended modules for approval
Propose new and amended academic partnerships for approval
Get in touch with EPQ's Approvals Team:
We are rebuilding this service as part of the Curriculum Management Project
Quality Evaluation and Improvement
Facilitating a cycle of continuous improvement in education quality through reviews (TEG, ITLR, Collaborative Review) and committee oversight.
Prepare for your departmental review as part of ITLR 2023
Read how your collaborative courses will be reviewed
Understand gaps and disparities in your students' outcomes through the Attainment Dashboard
Teaching Excellence Group (TEG) meetings with academic departments are paused while ITLR 2023 is undertaken.
Partner Relationship Management
Assuring that Warwick degrees delivered with and through partners secure our usual high academic standards and expectations of quality.
We manage the University's validation arrangement and strategic partnership with University College Birmingham (UCB) alongside academic leads and the Regional Team.
Learn more about the partnership
Ask us to help you explore potential collaborations with UCB:
Set up your Collaborative Course Management Group to oversee an academic partnership.
See who is involved in the University's Partnerships Committee.
Discuss new and existing partnerships with us:
Student Engagement and Surveys
Leading institutional surveys like the NSS and PTES, and developing a culture of student partnership and co-creation in quality enhancement.
Through 2022/23 we are focused on putting student partnership and co-creation at the heart of our Institutional Teaching and Learning Review.
Access student surveys results data on SharePoint
Download resources to promote the National Student Survey to students
Download resources to promote the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey to students
Learn more about how students views are heard, including through the Student Research Panel
Access the Students' Union's resources for Student-Staff Liaison Committees
Discuss student surveys, student engagement and co-creation with us:
Quality Framework Management
Evolving our overall approach to quality assurance and enhancement to deliver our Education Strategy and ensure compliance with Office for Students regulation.
We are rebuilding our Quality Framework through 2023 to ensure our approach remains fit for purpose and to align with the revised OfS Conditions of Registration on Quality & Standards (the 'B Conditions').
Our Policy and Governance Function
Academic Governance
Designing, improving and facilitating the system of decision-making and assurance on academic matters through the Senate and its committees.
Find information about a university or faculty committee
See the dates of meetings in the Committee Timetable
Get in touch with the Senate team for advice on transacting business through committees:
Academic Policy Management
Reforming and maintaining our academic regulations and policy to secure academic standards and provide strong foundations for a great student experience.
Access the University's Academic Regulations
Explore academic policy and guidance supporting the regulations
Get in touch for advice on interpreting or changing academic policy:
We are launching a project in 2023 to reform the University's academic regulations and policies, making them simpler, easier to use and more consistent.
Assessment Governance
Bringing together strategy, policy and practice on assessment design, delivery and policy in support of the Education Strategy.
Explore our policy and guidance on assessing students at Warwick
Use the Academic Development Centre's resources on designing effective assessment
Access guidance for External Examiners and for guidance staff on appointing External Examiners
The University's operating model for assessment remains online first but not online only, and the Warwick Assessment System is being implemented to facilitate a smooth, pedagogically sound and robust approach.
Our cross-cutting work
Education Strategy Coordination
Supporting the Education Executive to develop, deliver and evaluate the University's education strategy.
Faculty Partnering
Dedicated business partner support on education and governance to faculty and departmental leadership teams.
See who is involved in governance for your faculty, including your Senior Policy Advisor (Education) who leads EPQ's support to the faculty:
Faculty of Arts: Arts Faculty Board, Arts Education Committee, Alison Greenhalgh, Senior Policy Advisor (Education)
Faculty of Science, Engineering & Medicine: SEM Faculty Board, SEM Education Committee, Craig Franklin, Senior Policy Advisor (Education)
Faculty of Social Sciences: Social Sciences Faculty Board, Social Sciences Education Committee, Gabriella Bersanetti, Senior Policy Advisor (Education)