Governance Structures and Quality
The Education Quality Framework should be considered alongside the University’s governance structures, which play a key role in assuring quality.
The University’s Council is ultimately responsible for educational quality but delegates responsibility for oversight of this and the University’s academic affairs more broadly to the Senate. The Senate in turn delegates to and is informed by several committees with remits relating to educational quality, academic standards, student experience and student outcomes:
Committee |
Relevant aspects of its remit |
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| Education Committee | Responsibility for providing assurance to Senate and Council on the adequacy of quality assurance and enhancement arrangements and student experience. Development of policies in response to external quality assurance and enhancement operations and to secure the University’s strategy in relation to quality and standards. Responsibility for setting the University’s strategic approach to quality and assurance activity. | ||
| Academic Standards and Quality Committee | Providing recommendations to the Education Committee on the development of policy in response to external quality assurance and enhancement operations and for assuring academic standards and student experience including monitoring and review, data and outcomes, external examiner systems, survey and student feedback. Responsibility for actions arising from reviews such as PSRB inspections or internal reviews. | ||
| Partnerships Committee | In respect of partnerships, degree apprenticeships, exchange arrangements and flexible and online programmes, the Partnerships Committee is responsible for advising on policy, risk-based scrutiny of academic standards, scrutiny of new provision with recommendation for approval to CPSP, review and consideration of External Examiner reports and follow up actions. | ||
| Student Learning Experience and Engagement Committee | Responsibility for coordinating the University’s response to student feedback and surveys, recommending and advising the Education Committee on policy for student experience, engagement and opportunity and leading the strategic development of the student learning experience. | ||
| Widening Participation Committee | Responsibility for widening participation (WP) strategy, progress to APP priorities and WP objectives, response to external policy on WP and social mobility, develop the University’s approach to access and student success. | ||
| Boards of Faculty | Regulation of teaching, research, exams and curricula in the subject area for the Faculty, recommendation of awards and examiners for appointment to Senate. | ||
| Faculty Education Committees | Development of Faculty level approaches to teaching and learning matters, policy and practice, consideration of departmental progress towards enhancing student experience against sector metrics. | ||
| Departmental Education Committees | Development of Department level approaches to teaching and learning matters, policy and practice, and enhancing student experience, utilising reports from SSLCs, individuals and departmental working groups. | ||
To find about more about a committee please visit the Committees webpage to access public minutes, terms of reference, membership and details of the constitution.
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Education Quality Framework
The Framework brings together, organises and re-expresses The University of Warwick’s (“Warwick” hereafter) existing quality assurance mechanisms into one place. It acts as a formal framework setting out how we assess compliance with internal and external quality standards, primarily the Office for Student’s (OfS) ongoing conditions of registration.
Themes
The framework is arranged thematically, with the quality activities leading to assurance of standards arranged against each theme in three of the four ‘lines’. Linking the themes with the lines are brief expressions of our minimum expectations, informed by QAA’s indicators of quality(PDF) – each individual activity will also have its own aims and expectations expressed in the relevant guidance and process information.
Compliance with OfS B Conditions
This is an at-a-glance chart showing where our activities facilitate compliance with the B conditions. A more comprehensive mapping exercise is in development.
Warwick's Quality Processes, Policies and Advice
Over time Warwick has developed a range of processes, policies, advice and guidance that is used centrally and by departments to assure quality. The Framework uses these existing quality processes and policies as its component parts. Some external reference materials that help build quality HE provision are included here as well.
