Quality Assurance

1. Introduction

2. Responsibilities

2.1 Council

2.2 President and Vice-Chancellor

2.3 Academic Advisory Board

2.4 Academic Oversight Committee

2.5 Academic Director

2.6 Student Liaison Committee

3. Curriculum Policy

4. Approval of New Courses

4.1 New Courses

4.2 Course Syllabus Template

5. Approval of New Programs

5.1 Overview

5.2 Design Principles

5.3 Stages of Approval

5.4 Conditions of Approval

5.5 Changes to Existing Programs

5.6 New Program Publicity and Recruitment

5.7 Program Withdrawal

5.8 Terms of Reference for the Academic Oversight Committee

6. Information to Students about Academic Programs

7. Annual Monitoring

7.1 Overview

7.2 Monitoring of Courses

7.3 Monitoring of Programs

7.4 Annual Report on Academic Programs to Council

7.5 Action by Council

7.6 Appendix: Annual Course Report Template

7.7 Appendix: Annual Program Report Template

7.8 Appendix: Annual Monitoring Requirement

8. Quality Enhancement

8.1 Quality Enhancement from Annual Monitoring

8.2 The Homburg Academic Leadership Prize

9. Periodic Review

9.1 Scope of the Review

9.2 Critical Evaluation Document

9.3 External Review Panel

9.4 Purpose of the Review

9.5 Review Focus

9.6 Review Documentation

9.7 Critical Evaluation Document

9.8 Review Panel Preliminary Assessment, Consultation and Actions

9.9 Review Visit Program

9.10 Review Panel Recommendations

9.11 Draft Report

9.12 Action to be taken

9.13 Dissemination

9.14: Appendix: Periodic Programme Reviews - Organisation of Reviews and Responsibilities

1. The President

2. Council

3. The Academic Director Acting as Chair of the Review Panel

4. The Member of the University Administration Acting As Review Panel Secretary

9.15 Appendix: Template for Reports of Periodic Reviews - Taught and Research Provision

10. Academic Support and Guidance

11. Student Evaluation

11.1 Course Evaluation

11.2 Program Evaluation

11.3 Student Liaison Committee

11.4 Other Mechanisms