Faculty Quality Enhancement Teams (FQETs)

Please note in 2012 Faculty Quality Assurance Teams were renamed Faculty Quality Enhancement Teams.

Faculty Quality Enhancement Teams consider and review departmental mechanisms for monitoring and sustaining the academic standards necessary for achieving stated aims and objectives in relation to teaching and learning within the University, faculty and school plans. They also comment on best practice within schools and help disseminate that within faculties. Each Team writes an annual report on their findings for the Plenary Group of FQET Chairs and Education Committee.

Teams are made up of small groups of academic staff and student representatives - there is one team for each of the six faculties. They interact annually with the academic schools in their faculties. Each year, the Plenary Group of FQET Chairs identifies core themes, which all teams pursue, in addition to covering quality assurance topics relevant to the faculty. An important part of the teams' work is sharing good practice.

FQET Guidelines

FQET Chairs' job description

FQET staff member job description

FQET student member job description

The FQETs are also responsible for overseeing the process of Annual Programme Review and all report(s) are passed onto the Chair of the Faculty Quality Enhancement Team for consideration annually by the FQET.

A flowchart has been designed to try and illustrate some of the yearly processes that FQETs undertake.

Terms of Reference

Membership

Faculty Quality Enhancement Team Chairs and for membership of the individual teams please contact the relevant Faculty Education Manager.

Dates

Individual teams set their own meeting and visit dates.

The Plenary Group of FQET Chairs meets several times a year.

Other information

Some FQETs have their own Blackboard pages, these are generally restricted to members of the FQET only. Please address any queries about access to the Blackboard pages to the relevant Faculty Education Manager.

Medicine and Dentistry Blackboard pages - entitled 'MEDI_FQAT Faculty Quality Enhancement Team'.

Engineering Blackboard pages - entitled 'ENGF_FQAT Engineering Faculty Quality Enhancement Team'