SEC-2016-3-0748

Faculty PGR Annual Review 2015-16

LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

POSTGRADUATERESEARCHANNUALREVIEW

FACULTY ASSOCIATE DEAN REPORT

Notes for Guidance

This report, for discussion and approval at faculty teaching committees, should be summative, analytical and strategic (ie more than a simple compilation or summary of departmental highlights). It should also draw out any innovative practice for sharing across the university. Faculty reports will be presented to the Academic Standards and Quality Committee. Faculty ATR reports should also inform other processes such as a faculty’s strategic planning activity, including resource allocation and staffing.

Faculty:

Report on Academic Year:2015-16

  1. Executive Summary

Please summarise any notable changes to provision or context of operation withinyourFaculty; eg, key themes emerging from departments’PGR Annual Review reports, together with any issues, in summary, worthy offaculty and/or institutional consideration.

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  1. Date ofFaculty Meeting(s):

Please provide the date(s) of faculty teaching committee meeting(s) at which departmental PGR Annual Review reports were discussed.

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  1. Completion of ATR process

For each question below identify any department / consortial scheme in your faculty for which the answer is no, and comment why.

(a)Were departments’ PGRreviews completed in accordance with the Annual Review guideline, including reporting on the ‘special issues’[1] and to a standard the faculty was happy with, eg, the degree of self-reflection?

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(b)Were any generic issues raised by PGR external examiners (i.e. beyond those relating to the individual student and his or her work) addressed?

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(c)Did departments complete their action plans from last year? If not, are the outstanding actions included in this year’s action plan?

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(d)Has action to be taken since the period under review been clearly stated? is it clear what prompted the action (e.g. PGR student feedback, PGR student performance data, PGR external examiner generic comments etc.) and have all the main issues been captured?

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  1. Review of Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body (PSRB) activity

(a)Please summarise briefly any PSRB activity for departments which has taken place over the year under review. Please (i) include details of any issues or concerns identified in PSRB reports and/or departments’ Annual Review reports and the actions being taken to address these (where appropriate, actions should be included in the new Faculty Action Plan); and (ii) refer on, where appropriate, any issues or concerns which are considered to be of institutional significance.

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(b)For those departments which have undergone an accreditation/re-accreditation visit ov er the course of the year, (i) list the department(s) concerned and the date(s) of the next PSRB visit; (ii) forward on a copy of the PSRB report to the Secretariat along with this report.

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(c)For those departments which are due to undergo an accreditation/reaccreditation vist next academic year, list the department(s) concerned and the date(s) of the visit(s).

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  1. Issues for the Faculty:

Please identify any key problems, issues and/or weaknesses withinyour Faculty’s PGR programmes and indicate what actions need to be taken and by who:

(a) Arising from consideration of departments’ progression and completion data.

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(b)Arising from generic issues raised in external examiners’ reports

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(c)Arising from recent Periodic Quality Reviews

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(d)Arising from recent Professional Body Accreditation visits / reviews.

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(e)Arising from the degree schemes with overseas collaborative provision, including Dual award programmes

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  1. Issues for the University:

Please identifyin more detail any issues, common themes and/or programme weaknesses which Annual Review has highlighted and which need considering at University level; in particular anything relating to the ‘special issues’ for consideration and comment in the year under review.

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  1. Examples of Effective Practice in the Faculty:

Please include in this section examples of effective practice or innovation that the Faculty wishes to highlight.

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  1. Faculty Strategy

Please comment on any department’s submission which raises questions in relation to faculty strategy.

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  1. Rolling Action Plan:

Please attach the current faculty Rolling Action Plan (RAP), providing a ‘snapshot’ of actions already in progress and incorporating any actions identified through the ATR process.

The RAP should include any actions carried over from last year’s ATR which have not been completed, with a report on progress to date on these actions.

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[1]‘Special issues’ are identified and approved by ASQC on an annual basis. Some review years may not include any ‘special issues’.