<p>CLES Education Strategy Action Plan 2011/12</p><p>V1: TAQ, 16.1.12</p><p>Contents: Context from CLES Education Strategy: Pages 1-2</p><p>Action Plan: Pages 3-10.</p><p>Education Strategy In Essence</p><p>Aim To deliver education that contributes to the achievement of the University’s mission to ‘help shape the future by extending the boundaries of knowledge for the benefit of individuals, society and the environment’.</p><p>This will be delivered through programmes that: 1. provide a mechanism for the delivery of high quality, inspirational research-led, cutting edge education by excellent, well-trained and supported staff; 2. attract and retain high ability, ambitious and engaged students; 3. result in a diaspora of excellent graduates who help shape the future and whose success further enhances the reputation of the university; 4. are cost-effective to deliver.</p><p>In order to achieve this, those responsible for education will: a) Develop and deliver an action plan with respect to the University Education Strategy to promote continual improvement in relation to 1-3 above; b) Promote, identify and recommend reward for educational excellence; c) Undertake quality assurance process in relation to programmes and modules; d) Evaluate, revise and withdraw programmes in the context of demands 1-4 above; e) Develop new programmes within disciplines, within the College and across the University that meet demands 1-4 above; f) Contribute to planning and budgeting through assessment of programme demand; planning of workload; estimation of non-pay resource requirements; g) Ensure that learning resources meet student and staff expectations and are fit for the experience and delivery of our education programmes.</p><p>1 Organisation & Leadership i. Education will be lead by the Associate Dean for Education (ADE) and Assistant College Manager Education (ACME) working closely with the Education Strategy Group ii. ESG will own, develop, update and monitor 3 key documents: the Education Strategy Action Plan; The Education Portfolio & Plan; The Education Business Plan. iii. ESG will be supported with respect to the Education Strategy Action Plan (ESAP) by Discipline Education Committees and by ESG advisory & action groups that for 2011/12 will be: Admissions & WP; Employability; Exchanges & SACA; Learning resources; Technology-Enabled Learning. iv. ESG will be supported with respect to the Education Portfolio & Plan (EPP) by Discipline Education Committees and by: (1) Comprehensive Annual Programme Monitoring (COMAPM); (2) Termly meetings of the Programme & Module Development Group (PROGDEV). v. ESG will contribute to College Business Planning (including KPI & Risk Register monitoring) through the development of the Education Business Plan (EBP), informed by the EPP and the ESAP. vi. The CLES Education Forum will be established to promote educational excellence and the sharing of best practice – all members of CLES are invited to engage in, present during, and lead Forum activities.</p><p>2 EDUCATION STRATEGY ACTION PLAN 2011/12 : PREPARING FOR 2012 A. BUILDING ON THE DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EXETER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE</p><p>Action Service Lead College Milestone Milestones Milestone monitoring Report to ESG Lead Dates</p><p>Student Engagement</p><p>Promote the ERICA Pre-term 1 Communication (podcast?) with students Exchanges & SACA group development of outlining role and importance of Exchanges; (intranet report) Student Exchanges scope for influence; responsibilities of from SSLCs membership (and value re leadership & representation); timescale for elections. ERICA/ACM By end week Promote Exchanges in welcome week, at E with SACA 2 new registration and via College Exchanges leads academic year webpages; complete elections SACA leads Week 3 1st meetings of Exchanges - establish timetable for meetings; responsibilities for website maintenance; mechanisms for communication with wider student community Week 4 Meeting of Exchange student leads to elect Yes representatives on College ESG etc Ongoing Exchange Meetings and communications via website, etc Expand and embed Student TBA Sept 2011 SACA lead to be appointed (via workload Exchanges & SACA group Students as Change Services allocation) in each demographic unit: SHS; (intranet report) Agents initiative Psychology; Bioscience_Streatham; Geography_Streatham; CLES_Tremough One SACA lead to have overall coordination role DoEs July 2011 Ring-fence fund for SACA projects within discipline education budgets ERICA/ACM By end week Promote SACA in welcome week, at E with SACA 1 new registration and via College SACA webpages leads academic year & invite proposals Week 4 Deadline for SACA proposals SACA leads Week 5 Exchange meet to evaluate proposals and Yes & student award funds where appropriate leads</p><p>3 SACA leads Week 12 CLES-wide SACA group 0.5 day meeting for Yes & student oral progress reports (could be problematic if leads year 1 engaged and examined) SACA leads Term 2, Week CLES-wide SACA group 0.5 day meeting for Yes & student 12 oral progress reports leads SACA leads Summer SACA roadshow – all students invited & student Programme leads SACA leads Ongoing Webpage updates on project progress & student through year leads</p><p>Research led Teaching Discipline Education Groups Articulate and embed Education ADE Term 1 all All academic & PS staff aware of Exeter Research led Teaching Enhancement college definition of research-led education in the curriculum meeting</p><p>CLES By beginning Mapping of research-led education by type Education January 2012 of experience (Healey cross?) for all modules administrat or (TBA) and DoEs CLES By end Mapping by programme using module Yes Education January 2012 mapping results administrat or (TBA) ERICA In time for Develop communications materials to POODS illustrate output of mapping DoEs End term 3 In annual reviews of education within disciplines, evaluate critically the results of mapping and implications regarding delivery of research-led outcomes; plan updated delivery/assessment methods ADE Summer 2012 Evaluate discipline/programme plans to respond to evaluation and direct change as appropriate Promote Research led Education DoEs For new Ensure best practice in use of ELE is adopted TEL Group Teaching via use of Enhancement session as norm throughout college Technology Enabled Learning (TEL)</p><p>4 ADE July 2011 Ring-fence fund for TEL projects within college (*k) ADE & DoEs TEL lead to be appointed (via workload allocation) in each demographic unit: SHS; Psychology; Bioscience_Streatham; Geography_Streatham; CLES_Tremough One TEL lead to have overall coordination role Education ADE Term 1 all EE presentation to elaborate/illustrate Enhancement college examples of TEL (not currently employed in meeting CLES) to all academic & PS staff & invitation to module leaders for TEL support Week 5 Deadline for TEL proposals Week 6 Evaluation & selection of successful TEL proposals TEL leads Ongoing Work with module leaders to develop TEL applications ADE Term 3 all Short presentations from successful TEL college applicants on projects. Invitation to bid for meeting support in 2012/13 ADE July Set TEL budget wrt success of 11/12 projects and demand re 12/13</p><p>Targeted Student Support</p><p>Review of the personal ADE & DoEs Promote full engagement with review of tutor system personal tutor system Deliver optimum DoEs July-Sept Ensure distribution of tutorial loads are personal tutor within limits that permit a personal system experience within (i.e. within acceptable load range) confines of current framework</p><p>Ensure all assignments ADE Before Term 1 Circulate code of good practice re are returned with high assessment and feedback including standard feedback standards re return of work within the published time period and no more than 3 weeks.</p><p>5 ADE Term 2 All Promote use of electronic assessment staff meeting through presentation by early adopters at all college meeting DoEs & PS Ongoing Continue to monitor feedback legibility, staff quality & rapidity and take action where required. EE Research practice and experience of outsourced assessment EE Define best practice regarding assessment of modules by staff other than module lecturers.</p><p>Student Employment</p><p>Provide more EGD Graduate August/ To address the key issues surrounding the Employability Group opportunities for work Employabilit September Employability Agenda, each discipline in the placements y Officer 2011 College is creating an Employability Action and ACME Plan partnership with EGD. We have recently appointed a Graduate Employability Officer whose remit includes work placements for students. There are Employability Officers in each discipline with responsibility for working in partnership with EGD and the Graduate Employability Officer. A Service Level Agreement is being agreed between the College and EGD which will include regular monitoring of all Employability activity in the College and delivered centrally to our students. Most of this work is now complete but all will be in place by mid-July 2011.</p><p>Milestones and actions will be those outlined in the Employability Action Plans</p><p>6 B. GETTING THE BASICS RIGHT</p><p>Action Service Lead College Milestone Milestones Milestone Monitoring Report to ESG Lead Dates</p><p>Contact Hours</p><p>Ensure that agreed NA Sufficient Learning Spaces Available to allow minima for 2012/13 (10 this aim to be met hours pw for HASS and 15 pw for STEM/M in Year 1) can be met* </p><p>ADE & DoEs End 2011 Ensure programme revisions include plans to deliver/exceed agreed minima ACME & Timetable to enable plans to be delivered team</p><p>Staff-Student Ratio/Class Sizes</p><p>Ensure that minimum College Autumn Continue revising modelled SSRs & define sustainable SSRs are Executive 2011 appointment strategy with cognisance of target. attained College Ongoing Implement appointment strategy Executive Ensure that teaching is Planning/ ADE Term 1 Determine competitor behaviour wrt class sizes undertaken with a range Marketing across programmes and use this to define target of class sizes that ranges of acceptable class sizes includes small group teaching ADE/SACA Term 1 Explore relationship between satisfaction, Leads with choice, capping and class sizes. Student Exchange Leaders/ Guild ADE & DoEs Term 1 Plan modules 2012/13 and beyond wrt conclusions of class size analysis</p><p>7 Rewarding and Developing Staff </p><p>Increase number of staff Education EE should add action – Colleges can promote with HEA fellowship Enhancement desirability but actions should be defined by EE status via ASPIRE Framework ADE & DoEs Develop systematic record of educational excellence as part of annual programme review and ensure data are available to ALs ADE & DoEs Ensure that leadership re educational initiatives (SACA, TEL, WP, etc) is allocated to staff with potential to develop the area and receive recognition and reward for activity – workload planning</p><p>Admissions and Widening Participation</p><p>Ensure that Access Admissions & A&R should add actions – Colleges can promote Agreement targets for Recruitment and collaborate but, given importance of this re 2012/13 can be met OFFA etc this needs coordination</p><p>ADE, ACME Pre-term 1 Establish CLES WP group and lead (workload WP Group & DoEs allocation) Pre-term 1 Include WP activity in workload allocation for majority of staff WP Pre-term 1 Plan & Timetable programme of WP events lead/Group WP Ongoing Deliver events lead/Group Information, Advice and Guidance and Key Information Sets</p><p>Produce Key Information APS Sets for publication in autumn 2012</p><p>??? Training of key College staff by ??? to allow </p><p>8 ready access to and edit capacity of centrally held data</p><p>Portfolio Development</p><p>Review and refresh Marketing ADE, CM, taught UG portfolio ERICA</p><p>ADE, ACME, Initiate and implement annual review of ERICA programmes (PROM) that incorporates APM for QA purposes but also receives and evaluates all other programme related data – this needs to be readily accessible (see above) Detailed programme costing exercise Work with Knowledge Partnership to define brief for analysis Respond to KP report</p><p>Assuring Academic Rigour </p><p>Develop and implement Education ADE/ESG Autumn Review discipline assessment & feedback College Assessment and Enhancement 2011 strategies and harmonise. Feedback strategies </p><p>Academic Year Ensure all 1st year students undertake sufficient assessment to self-monitor progress through both terms 1 and 2 Design and deliver CLES elements of cross-year (including summer) programme Ensure that level 1 is DVC ADEs Summer Evaluate inclusion of 1st year performance in appropriate hurdle 2011 degree classification – 0.25:1:2</p><p>Learning Spaces Learning Resources Group David Upgrade infrastructure of College Learning Salway Spaces</p><p>9 Library and IT Learning Resources Group David Upgrade PC provision in College Learning Spaces Salway Explore with AS potential to handover College some learning spaces (PC Suites) Ensure that essential specialist software is accessible in open access IT suites</p><p>10</p>