PARM/12/039

UNIVERSITY STANDING PANEL REPORT

PART A: SUMMARY REPORT CONFIRMED

A1 Programme Specification Title(s) Partner Organisation

Awarding Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University

Collaborative Partners/Teaching Institutions: - - - Mid College - - Manchester College - - Warrington Collegiate College

Overarching Programme Specification Title: Hollings (FTM) Foundation Degree Network

Review, EQAL FdA Events Management  Existing partner: Manchester College  Plus addition of new collaborative arrangement with Warrington Collegiate, South Cheshire College and Macclesfield College to deliver the programme.

Review, EQAL: FdA Travel & Tourism Management  Existing partners: Manchester College, South Cheshire College,  Plus addition of new collaborative arrangement with Warrington Collegiate to deliver the programme.

Review, EQAL: FdSc Hospitality Management  Existing partners: South Cheshire College and Hopwood Hall College

Review, EQAL: FdA Spa Management  Existing Partner: Trafford College

A2 Home Department/School Food and Tourism Management

A3 Home Faculty or Hollings Faculty Supporting Faculty A4 Type of Proposal Periodic Review / EQAL

A5 Date of Standing Panel 28 June 2012 PARM/12/039

A6 Objectives of Event

To ensure that the design, academic standards and quality of learning opportunities of the existing and modified programmes, given strategic approval on 26 March 2012 (PARM/12/039) and as outlined in 7 below, remain appropriate to the awards to which the programmes lead and are informed by reference to institutional regulations and policies, national benchmarks and relevant professional and employment demands. Furthermore, to ensure that the relevant programmes, as modified, comply with the revised curriculum structure for undergraduate programmes of the University; the relevant subject benchmark statements have been mapped to the revised units; the programmes and unit learning outcomes have been mapped to assessments; and that the University’s employability and sustainability outcomes have been mapped across the programme.

A7 Outline of Proposal/Development(s)

The Food and Tourism Management Department within Hollings Faculty had developed four foundation degrees over the previous five years. These programmes had been validated by the University to be delivered across a number of FE Partner Colleges. The suite of programmes had been designed for students wishing to enter into management careers in the Events, Tourism, Hospitality or Spa sectors. A strong vocational element had also been embedded into each programme. The suite of programmes and partners had grown considerably in recent years to include four programmes and seven potential partner colleges. Furthermore, the partner colleges shared many of the core units that are common to the four courses offered by the Food and Tourism Management Department. In addition, the partner colleges formed part of the same standardisation process, and fed into a central exam board linked to a common External Examiner. Each programme had, however, a separate programme specification.

The proposal being presented to the Panel sought to:

 create one programme specification under which each of the programmes would sit, entitled “Hollings Foundation Degree Network”;  align the FdA Events Management and FdA Travel and Tourism Management programme to the University’s EQAL structure;  add Warrington Collegiate to the Foundation Degree Network to deliver the FdA Events Management and FdA Travel and Tourism Management programmes;  expand delivery of the FdA Events Management programme to include existing validated partners South Cheshire College and Macclesfield College.

Warrington Collegiate had been approved as a partner of the University in March 2012.

A8 Conduct of the Event and Panel Membership

The Standing Panel meeting was held on the 28th June 2012.

The panel included the following internal members:

 Prof Jois Stansfield (Chair)  Mrs Jackie Jones (FADC Representative)  Ms Bairbre Walsh (Panel Secretary)

The panel included the following external member appointed by the Head of Centre for Academic Standards & Quality Enhancement:

PARM/12/039  Ms Mary Hulford (Director of Quality Improvement, Staffordshire University)

The Panel invited the following members of the Programme Team to speak to the proposal:  Mr Mike Battye (HE Development Manager, Cheshire HE Consortium)  Ms Jackie Shaw (HE Manager, Macclesfield College)  Mr Shaun Litler (MMU Link Tutor)  Ms Emma Whittaker (MMU Link Tutor)  Mr Edward Bielinski (MMU Link Tutor)  Mr Wai Ng (Tutor, South Cheshire College)  Ms Kaye Thomas (Warrington Collegiate)  Ms Steph Hodge (HE Course Leader, Warrington Collegiate)  Mr Mark Harris (Director of HE, Warrington Collegiate)  Ms Cheryl Clements (Course Leader, FdA Event Management, )

A9 Documentary Evidence Base

 Strategic Approval Form and Strategic Approval signoff  Course Development Plan  Programme Specification including appendices  Unit Specifications  External Examiner comments and Programme Team response  Report on Student Meetings  Human Resource Report  Physical Resource Report  Summary CVs of staff teaching on the programme

A11 Conclusions

The Panel concluded that the intended learning outcomes of the programmes were being achieved by students, that the standards of the University’s awards were being maintained and that the programmes as modified remain current and valid in the light of developing knowledge in the discipline, practice in their operation and developments in teaching and learning. The Panel also concluded that the revised programme structure at the levels under consideration, complied with the University’s revised curriculum structure for undergraduate programmes; that the relevant benchmark statements had been applied to the unit specifications; that the programme learning outcomes had been appropriately mapped to assessment within the units; and that the University’s employability and sustainability outcomes had been mapped across the programme.

A12 Summary of Outcome PARM/12/039

The Panel recommended:

Continued approval (as modified to aligned with the University’s revised curriculum structure for undergraduate programmes, to include delivery of FdA Travel and Tourism Management at Warrington Collegiate College, and FdA Events Management at Warrington Collegiate College, South Cheshire College and Macclesfield College, and to create one programme specification entitled ‘Hollings Foundation Degree Network, under which each of the four award titles will sit, with effect from September, subject to fulfilment of the 2 conditions in Section A13 below.

A full list of the award titles approved may be found in section 2 and 4 of the updated programme specification.

A full list of changes made as part of this Review/Modification event may be found in Appendix 1 of this report.

A13 Condition(s) of Approval

The following condition(s) of approval must be fulfilled before the programme/modified programme may commence:

1. Create specific final and interim learning outcomes for each award within the Foundation Degree Network.

2. Within unit specifications, revise the ‘Assessment Criteria for Unit/Elements of Assessment’ sections with a view to removing specific marking breakdowns for individual assessments. (This detail can be added to the student handbook if so desired). This is also applicable to those units already in approval, provided that the essential elements of assessment remain unchanged.

3. Ensure Formal Agreements are revised where appropriate.

A14 Deadline(s) for Fulfilment of Condition(s)

19 July 2012

A15 Recommendations

The Programme Team must consider and address explicitly the following recommendation(s) in the course of its continuous monitoring processes:

1. Within each unit specification, indicate where formative assessment is employed.

2. Fully articulate how employer engagement takes place, and the manner in which it benefits the curriculum and its future development.

3. Make explicit within unit handbooks how work-based learning is managed within the curriculum.

4. Revisit unit specifications to ensure currency of learning resources. PARM/12/039 A16 Date of next scheduled review

The next scheduled periodic review of the Hollings Foundation Degree Network will be held during the Autumn/Spring term of the academic year 2017/18.

For CASQE use only

REPORT STATUS SUMMARY for CASQE use only

CASQE 1 Report approved by the 6 August 2012 Panel Chair CASQE 2 Report circulated to 24 October 2012 F/CQA CASQE 3 Date of Head of CASQE 12 September 2012 Recommendation to AQSC CASQE 4 AQSC Date & Outcome 12 September 2012

End of Part A: Summary Report

PART B: RESPONSE TO CONDITIONS: STATUS REPORT

Programme Specification Hollings Foundation Degree Network Title/Partner Organisation Type of Proposal Periodic Review / Major Modification / EQAL Modification

Date of Standing Panel June 28th 2012

Deadline for fulfilment of July 19th 2012 Conditions Panel Chair Prof Jois Stansfield

Response to be approved by (indicate as appropriate)

Panel Chair on behalf of X Panel All/designated Panel Member (please specify)

1 Action Taken in Response to Condition(s)

Conditions responded to as per email communications from MMU Link Tutor to CASQE / Chair of Panel

2 Documentation submitted for approval

 Revised Programme Specification PARM/12/039  Revised Unit Specifications

3 Confirmation of approval

I confirm that I am satisfied that the academic conditions of approval have been fulfilled.

Signed: email confirmation of approval from the Chair, Prof Jois Stansfield, in CASQE files.

Date: 6th August 2012

Secretary’s Note – 23 October 2012: Formal Agreements Agreements with Hopwood Hall College, Macclesfield College, Mid Cheshire College, South Cheshire College, Manchester College and Trafford College for all their provision have been signed for delivery in 2012/13.

Warrington Collegiate College Confirmation received on 12 October 2012 (M Harris) that it would not be delivering the two awards for which it was approved (FdA Events Management & FdA Travel & Tourism Management) in 2012/13 and an agreement has not been signed. A signed agreement will be required if the college wishes to commence delivery in the future.

For CASQE use only CONDITIONS STATUS SUMMARY for CASQE use only

CASQE 5 Confirmation of fulfilment of 24 October 2012 conditions circulated to F/CQA CASQE 6 Date(s) Head of CASQE 23 October 2012 Recommendation(s) for submission to AQSC CASQE 7 AQSC date 24 October 2012

End of Part B: Response to Conditions