EDUCATION SUPPORT UNIT

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INFORMATION ABOUT

• Academic Advice and Support
• Academic Development
• Assessment and External Examining
• Committees and Groups
  • Assessment Standing Group
  • Education Committee
  • Transition to Undergraduate Study Group
  • University Quality Enhancement Committee
  • University Graduate Studies Committee
  • University Undergraduate Studies Committee
• Distance Learning
• TEL
• Postgraduate Education
• Programme and Unit Approval
• Student Surveys
• Support for Student Learning
• Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Programme
• Undergraduate Education
• Programme approval process

Faculty Quality Enhancement Teams (FQETs)

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

Faculty Quality Enhancement Teams assure the quality of learning, teaching and assessment and of the student learning experience in the context of the research environment which underpins it.  They help regulate University-wide monitoring mechanisms in respect of learning and teaching quality enhancement and assurance. Teams are made up of small groups of academic staff and student representatives - there is one team for each of the six faculties and they interact regularly with the academic schools* in their faculties.

FQET Terms of Reference

• To consider and review school* mechanisms for monitoring and enhancing the academic standards necessary for achieving stated aims and objectives in relation to teaching and learning within the University, faculty and school plans.
• To comment on the extent to which school reflect best practice
• To identify issues and any good practice in relation to the maintenance of academic standards and the enhancement of the student experience and to make appropriate recommendations to the relevant Faculty Committee/s.
• To make an annual overview report on their findings and any recommendations to the University Quality Enhancement Committee and to Faculty Board.

*schools can also relate to departments, centres and for some faculties may represent programmes or units.

FQET Guidelines

FQET Chairs' job description

FQET staff member job description

FQET student member job description

Faculty staff supporting the work of FQET collate the documentation necessary for the visits, full details are in the FQET Guidelines, but this includes Annual Programme Review (APR) report(s) and External examiner report(s).  All these reports are available to relevant staff and accessed through a shared drive at \\mis-app1.admin.bris.ac.uk\Users\APR-and-ExEx, please email apr-info@bristol.ac.uk to request access to the drive.

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

Each year, the University Quality Enhancement Committee identifies core themes, which all teams pursue,  in addition to quality assurance topics relevant to the faculty.

Membership

Please contact the relevant Faculty Education Manager.

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'