As many of you know, EPQ is working with colleagues in IDG on the Curriculum Management Project. One of the project's aims is to implement a new Curriculum Management System, which consolidates programme, module, and partnership approval into one technological solution - improving the accuracy of our data and the user experience of everyone involved in the approval process.

The project team held numerous workshops in March and April where colleagues from various academic and professional services departments were able to provide feedback on our current approval systems and what they would like to see from a new solution. The incredibly valuable information gathered at the workshops is currently being reviewed, and will influence the project requirements (essentially a list of things we want to have and achieve in the new system) - but there is still time to have your say. A list of requirements will be circulate to departments in May, and colleagues will be asked for their feedback. However, if you would like to get involved before then, please contact Tracey Clements.

Alongside the system developments, we have been working on a harmonised Curriculum and Partnerships Approval Policy, which includes a refreshed process for approving programmes. The current way in which we approve programmes has not been reviewed since the introduction of the current Course Proposal Scrutiny Panel/Partnerships Committee-led process, and with a new system on the horizon, now is the perfect opportunity for us to review what we do and how we do it.

The policy aims to bring together everything approval-related into one document, refreshing current positions and plugging gaps where we have no documented policy (such as definitions on what is classed as minor, moderate, and major amendments), to better support colleagues involved in curriculum and partnership approval and ensure our expectations as a University are clearly documented. The new policy is being socialised with colleagues in both academic and professional services departments - if you would like to be involved, please contact Lauren Botham.