SCHOOL REVIEW PANEL REPORT

SCHOOL NAME

[Review dates]

Contents

Panel Members

Executive Summary

Findings

1. Building on a Culture of Academic Excellence

Excellence in Research and Innovation

Excellence in Education and Student Experience

2. Delivering on Unique National Responsibilities

Our Responsibility to National Policymakers and National Institutions

Our Responsibility to Indigenous Australia

Our Responsibility Regarding Asia and the Pacific

3. Achieving Equity

4. Building a Culture of Collegiality and Engagement

5. Sound Leadership, Governance, Organisational & Financial Sustainability

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Panel Members

[Names and institutions]

Executive Summary

Summary of the Schools overall performance, its present circumstances with a focus on factors that have contributed to the current operating environment and potential future outlook of the school.

Panel to summarise commendations and recommendations within executive summary.

Findings

1. Building on a Culture of Academic Excellence

Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:

  • Identification and implementation of performance expectations within research, education and service aligned to ANU’s strategic goals, that continues to strengthen ANU’s position internationally and nationally;
  • Shared strategic direction to support coherent choice of strategic themes that guide future recruitment in delivering excellence.

Provide commendations and recommendations.

Excellence in Research and Innovation

Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:

  • Investment in research that delivers solutions to national priorities, and disciplines and research strengths are ranked alongside the best in the world.
  • Attracting external funding from a range of sources.
  • Contributing towards translation research.
  • Demonstrating a return on investment from the National Institutes Grant.
  • Initiatives to support the development of ECRs, including PhD students to ensure set up for success;

Provide commendations and recommendations.

Excellence in Education and Student Experience

Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:

  • Improving teaching, mentoring, and quality and range of student experiences.
  • Awareness of, and implementation of innovative modes of teaching with support to assist staff with changes in approaches to teaching, and consistent standards of feedback to students across staff;
  • Interest in the delivery of more graduate coursework teaching, offering flexible modes of delivery, with greater awareness of how to develop and deliver qualifications that meet social and economic needs with forms of delivery that will attract and retain students inside and outside of Canberra;
  • Teaching workload inequalities.

Provide commendations and recommendations.

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2. Delivering on Unique National Responsibilities

Our Responsibility to National Policymakers National Institutions

Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:

  • Working within government, emphasising co-creation of policy and broadening policy-related research.
  • Research offering solutions to complex policy issues confronting the nation and our region.

Provide commendations and recommendations.

Our Responsibility to Indigenous Australia

Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:

  • Increasing the recruitment and success of Indigenous undergraduate and postgraduate students, and Indigenous academic staff.
  • Community-engaged research relevant to the big questions facing Indigenous Australia.

Provide commendations and recommendations.

Our Responsibility Regarding Asia and the Pacific

Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:

  • Contributing to the agenda in national and international discourse about our region.
  • New research and teaching methods, approaches and agendas, serving as a partner and essential resource for all who focus on Asia and the Pacific.

Provide commendations and recommendations.

3. Achieving Equity

Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:

  • Approach to promoting gender equity and diversity and support to the University achieving the Australian SAGE Athena SWAN Gold award.
  • Ensuring the retention, and success for students and staff whatever their backgrounds or identities.

Provide commendations and recommendations.

4. Building a Culture of Collegiality and Engagement

Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:

  • Collegiality and collaboration across disciplines, and in partnership with industry, government and civil society.
  • Building engaging roles for alumni.
  • Creating opportunities for the wider community to make philanthropic contributions.
  • Making collections and the cultural life and amenity of our campus more accessible to the national capital community and beyond.

Provide commendations and recommendations.

5. Sound Leadership, Governance, Organisational Financial Sustainability

Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:

-Governance and management structures;

-Organisational and administrative support structures;

-Composition and function of school’s committees;

-Consultative and collaborative decision-making;

-Staff development/ workforce succession planning;

-Academic workload allocation;

-Financial sustainability.

Provide commendations and recommendations.

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