Warwick's five-yearly Institutional Teaching and Learning Review (ITLR) is your opportunity to take stock of where we've come in Education over the last five years, and to shape what the next five years looks like. After confirming the design of this ITLR - its third iteration - and publishing this on dedicated webpages, the 39 departmental reviews and 3 institutional themes are now well underway.

It has been a busy few weeks for ITLR. Documents and resources have been finalised to help colleagues produce their department's Self-Evaluation Document (SED), which will form the basis of the reviews. These include a template for the SED itself, and the Evaluation Framework, which each department and cluster will self-evaluate against to ensure a consistent focus in each review. Templates and further resources are available on the ITLR website.

Academic departments have been returning their terms of reference forms to us, setting out the aims, focus and dates of their departmental review. They have also started to engage external reviewers and nominate student representatives to work on their submissions. Professional services departments being reviewed are grouped into Professional Services Clusters focused on different aspects of student and staff experience, and each department and cluster now has a dedicated ITLR Teams site, which includes all of their guidance and paperwork.

We have engaged with many colleagues across the institution as we have run workshops introducing the common themes (blended learning, interdisciplinarity and education for sustainable development) and professional services clusters, hosted drop-in events at various locations around campus to give staff and students the chance to find out more about the ways they can get involved, and run two self-evaluation document (SED) training workshops.

As we move into November, we will be delivering more support sessions for colleagues completing their SEDs in both academic departments and professional services. Terms of reference will be signed off by the ITLR review sponsors and panels will be allocated so we can begin training and booking in review dates for all departments and clusters. Please do keep an eye on the ITLR website, as it is being frequently updated with guidance, contacts and events as and when they become available.