UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON
SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Confirmed minutes of the meeting of the School of Psychology Quality Standing Committee held on Wednesday 10th September 2008 in Room AE3.06.
Present: Rachel Mulvey (Chair)
Ravinder Bassi (QAE)
Dallas Davis (QAE)
Esme Burton
Pippa Dell
Niki Cooper (The Place2Be)
Chris Pawson
Gordon Jinks
Dave Watkinson (School of Health & Bioscience)
Servicing Officer: Shehnaz Awan
1. APOLOGIES
Joan Painter, Christine Dancey , Aneta Tunariu, Kendra Gilbert, Kirstie Soar (KES), Matthew Colahan.
The committee welcomed two new members:
Nikki Cooper from The Place2Be – as representative for Collaborative partners.
Dallas Davis from QAE.
2. TERMS OF REFERENCE
The committee noted the terms of reference for the committee, which remain unchanged from the previous year. Dallas Davis informed the committee that Ruth Carter (Head of Quality) has requested that all schools clarify how colleagues within schools are made aware of quality procedures (Action: RM /SA).
3. MINUTES
3.1 RECEIVED and CONFIRMED
3.1.1 The minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday 18th June 2008. Corrections included:
5.1.2 – Module PY2003 – was NOT APPROVED – module leader needs to map LO to assessment components and remove reference to thresholds.
- Module PYM202 is called Counselling & Psychotherapy: Application & Integration.
4. MATTERS ARISING
The following actions were noted:
4.1 – Pippa Dell is liaising with Programme Leaders (MAPP and MSc Psychology) regarding new EE appointments.
5.1.2 – PY1005 and PY2003 - were both approved by Chair’s action. PYM801-810 have now been resubmitted and approved.
5.1.3 – Rachel Mulvey will follow-up the initial approval for the MSc Clinical Psychology (Theory) (Action: RM).
5. EXTERNAL EXAMINERS
5.1 RECEIVED and NOTED
5.1.1 The report on External Examiners due to complete their term of office was checked and status noted:
- The nomination for Steve Jones was NOT APPPROVED. Pippa Dell and Shehnaz Awan are now producing a matrix to map EE activity over the last 5 years. This action is part of the EE review and rationalisation plans. Any new EE’s will be added to this matrix, indicating that these can no longer be used. Dallas Davis to find out date of next EE committee (Action: DD).
School responses to EE reports not received:
- Professional Doctorate in Applied Educational & Child Psychology (EE’s – Geoff Lindsay and Catherine Arora) – Shehnaz Awan to email Irvine Gersch (Action: SA).
- Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (EE – Helen Dent) – Shehnaz Awan to email Mark Rapley (Action: SA).
EE reports not received:
- David Hardman – not due until October.
- David Oldman, Deirdre Haslam, Patricia Grant – Gordon Jinks to chase (Action: GJ).
- Roz Dixon to be removed from the list, no longer an EE (Action: DD).
- Susan Petty – to be removed from list (Action: DD).
- Susan Morris – to be removed from list as programme withdrawn (Action: DD).
- Biza Stenfert Kroese, Michael Wang & Kevin Tierney – report for taught elements, Prof Doct Clinical: not yet done.
- Robert Cameron – Irvine Gersch to chase (Action: IG).
- Robert Parkinson - no report due as Prof Doct Occupational programme.
- Jane Artess – Nelica La Gro to chase (Action: NLG).
- Lynne Gabriel – Aneta Tunariu to chase (Action: AT).
- Rosemary Snelgar – Pippa Dell to chase (Action: PD).
- Simon Du Plock – Kendra Gilbert to chase (Action: KG).
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5.1.2 The committee noted the External Examiner Nomination for Dr Biza Stenfert Kroese (Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology) was APPROVED by Chair’s action on 21st July 2008. Shehnaz Awan sent nomination to QA on 23/07/08.
5.1.3 The committee APPROVED the External Examiner Extension of Duties for Jane Artess for the PG Cert/Diploma/MA Career Guidance. Shehnaz Awan to send nomination form to QA (Action: SA).
5.1.4 The committee APPROVED the External Examiner Nomination for Dr David Giles for the Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Shehnaz Awan to send nomination form to QA (Action: SA).
5.1.5 The committee APPROVED the External Examiner Nomination for Professor John Sparrow for the MSc Coaching Psychology and Coaching. Shehnaz Awan to send nomination form to QA (Action: SA).
6 PROGRAMME APPROVAL & MODIFICATION
6.1 RECEIVED, APPROVED & NOTED
6.1.1 The committee NOTED the updated list of upcoming approvals:
- Graduate Diploma (ELCMHT) – the initial approval needs to be resubmitted. It was noted that ELCMHT are not recruiting to the programme this year in order to develop this programme further.
- Psychosexual Therapy – the Professional body is not BACP but BASRT. This is going to VRSC in September.
- PGCert Personal & Professional Development by distance learning was approved by VRSC in July 2008.
- The BPS Psychology revalidation is scheduled for February 4th 2009. Elizabeth Attree is now the new programme leader. BPS accreditation will follow the revalidation.
6.1.2 The committee APPROVED the module: Coaching for Driver Development.
6.1.3 The committee APPROVED the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology: Assessment Reduction. Mark Rapley to update the prog spec to reflect this change and send to Dallas Davis (Action: MR).
6.1.4 Module PY3015 - The committee suggested that the exam for the Forensic Psychology (non-core) module remain at 90 minutes, but that the percentage which is currently stated as 40% and 20% be changed to 60%. Module was APPROVED- Shehnaz Awan to track changes and send to Joy Coogan (Action: SA).
6.1.5 The committee APPROVED module PY2501: Personal Development. Shehnaz Awan to inform Nash Popovic to put this on the new template and also to include learning outcomes (Action: SA).
6.1.6 The committee APPROVED module GCM201, which meets the assessment tariff - amendments to the assessment weightings included:
- Changing the personal journal from a percentage to a PASS/FAIL.
- Distributing marks among other elements of assessment.
- Reducing the weighting of the transition paper to have a formative element.
6.1.7 The committee NOTED that module PYM502 now conforms to the assessment tariff, assuming that learning outcomes 7, 8, 10 are assessed in the research project. Shehnaz Awan to amend the module spec (Action: RM).
6.1.8 The committee NOTED the revised programme spec for Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Rachel Tribe to send an updated copy to Dallas Davis for inclusion on the UEL website (Action: RT/KG).
7 NEW PROGRAMME VALIDATIONS
7.1 NONE
8 REVIEW & ENHANCEMENT PROCESS
8.1 NOTED
8.1.1 The committee NOTED the REP 2008/09 dates (below) and also that all collaborative REP’s had to be submitted to Ravinder Bassi by Friday 5th Dec 2008.
Date / ActionREP Reports Submission / 27 Oct 08 / All PLs
REP Audits Completed / 11 Nov 08 / REP auditors (SPQSC & PLs)
REP Audits considered by School Quality Committee / 19 Nov 08 / SPQSC
Final draft School Overview / 26 Nov 08 / Quality Leader
REP Overview considered by School Board / 10 Dec 08 / School Board
School Overview considered by VRSC / 23 Jan 09 / VRSC
- Dallas Davis has requested that a list of all REP’s expected be sent to her, including all short courses (Action: SA).
- Pippa Dell agreed to email RM with a complete list of all short courses (Action: PD).
- RM to identify a suitable person to deal with REP for all short courses (Action: RM).
8.1.2 The committee NOTED the action plan from the School Overview Report, no outstanding issues were identified.
9 EXTERNAL COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS
9.1 The committee NOTED the ELCMHT action plan.
9.2 The committee NOTED the Doctorate in Educational & Child Psychology action plan. Both action plans were signed off by the committee.
10 VALIDATION & REVIEW SUB-COMMITTEE
10.1 NOTED
10.1.1 The committee NOTED the VRSC action sheet of 3rd July 2008.
11 QUALITY STANDING COMMITTEE
11.1 NOTED
11.1.1 The committee NOTED the AEL policy.
11.1.2 The committee NOTED the dissertation modules : Supervision contact hours.
11.1.3 The committee NOTED the Assessment Tariff Implementation Report.
Exemption Requests
These are being considered by Julie Baldry-Currens:
- Melanie Vitkovich & Virginia Lam (PY2001).
- Claudia Lasite & Nelica LaGro (GCM103 & 104).
- Kendra Gilbert (GCM302 & 303).
- Rachel Tribe (GCM 305 & 306).
11.1.4 The committee NOTED the QAA Code of Practice Section 9: Work-based and Placement learning. This was discussed at Programme leaders meeting and it was agreed that if there were any issues arising from the new CoP then this should be reported back to QSC.
12 AOB
12.1 NOTED
12.1.1 The committee NOTED that the rationale for the new programme title: PG Diploma Psychology with Empirical project. The title was approved (subject to submission of revised programme specification). The following action is required:
- Programme spec will need to reflect this step-off programme and tracked changes on the prog spec to be submitted by next SPQSC meeting on Wed 22nd Oct 2008 (Action: AJ, cc. IL).
13 DATE & TIME OF NEXT MEETING
13.1 The next meeting is scheduled for Wed 22nd October 2008 at 1.30-3.30pm in Room UH308. It was noted that PD, AT and EB will be late due to a PhD review meeting.
13.2 The committee RECEIVED the revised schedule of meetings for the academic session 2008/09.
UNCONFIRMED / Thursday 25th September 2008CONFIRMED / Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Action Sheet SPQSC Wednesday 10th September 2008
Minute Number / Action / Action By2. / Rachel Mulvey and Shehnaz Awan to send SPQSC Terms of Reference and also details of internal school quality procedures to Dallas Davis. / Rachel Mulvey Shehnaz Awan
5.1.3 / Rachel Mulvey to follow-up the intial approval for the MSc clinical psychology (theory). / Rachel Mulvey
5.1.1 / Dallas Davis to find out the date of the next EE committee. Dallas Davis to remove Roz Dixon, Sue Petty and Susan Morris from the monthly circulation list. / Dallas Davis
School responses to EE reports not received. Geoff Lindsay and Catherine Arora – Shehnaz Awan to email Irvine Gersch. / Shehnaz Awan
School responses to EE reports not received. Helen Dent (clinical psychology EE) – Shehnaz Awan to email Mark Rapley.
EE reports not received. David Oldman, Deirdre Haslam and Patricia Grant – Gordon Jinks to chase. / Gordon Jinks
EE reports not received. Robert Cameron – Irvine Gersch to chase. Shehnaz Awan to email IG. / Shehnaz Awan
EE reports not received - Jane Artess – Nelica La Gro to chase. / Nelica LaGro
EE reports not received – Lynne Gabriel – Aneta Tunariu to chase. / Aneta Tunariu
EE reports not received – Rosemary Snelgar – Pippa Dell to chase. / Pippa Dell
EE reports not received – Simon Du Plock – Kendra Gilbert to chase. / Kendra Gilbert
5.1.3 / The committee APPROVED the External Examiner Extension of Duties for Jane Artess for the Guidance, Counselling and Coaching programme. Shehnaz Awan to send nomination form to QA. / Shehnaz Awan
5.1.4 / The committee APPROVED the External Examiner Nomination for Dr David Giles for the Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Shehnaz Awan to send nomination form to QA.
5.1.5 / The committee APPROVED the External Examiner Nomination for Professor John Sparrow for the MSc Coaching Psychology. Shehnaz Awan to send nomination form to QA.
6.1.3 / The committee APPROVED the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology: Assessment Reduction. Mark Rapley to update the prog spec to reflect this change and send to Dallas Davis. / Mark Rapley
6.1.4 / The committee suggested that the exam for the Forensic Psychology (non-core) module remain at 90 minutes, but that the percentage which is currently stated as 40% and 20% be changed to 60%. Shehnaz Awan to track changes and send to Joy Coogan. / Shehnaz Awan
6.1.5 / The committee APPROVED module PY2501: Personal Development. Shehnaz Awan to inform Nash Popovic to put this on the new template and also to include learning outcomes. / Shehnaz Awan
6.1.7 / The committee NOTED that module PYM502 now conforms to the assessment tariff, however, it is unclear where learning outcomes 7, 8, 10 are assessed. Shehnaz Awan to amend the module spec and Rachel Mulvey to approve by Chairs action. / Shehnaz Awan
Rachel Mulvey
6.1.8 / The committee NOTED the revised programme spec for Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Rachel Tribe to send an updated copy to Dallas Davis for inclusion on the UEL website. / Rachel Tribe/Kendra Gilbert
8.1.1 / Pippa Dell to email RM with a complete list of all short courses. Shehnaz Awan to send a complete list of REPs expected to Dallas Davis. / Pippa Dell
Shehnaz Awan
RM to identify a suitable person to deal with REP for all short courses. / Rachel Mulvey
11.1.3 / Ashok Jansari to amend PY2003. / Ashok Jansari
Caroline Edmonds – submit a modified module spec for PY2004 when discussions with Mark Finn are complete. / Caroline Edmonds
Irina Anderson – confirm that PY2005 and PY3022 are tariff compliant / Irina Anderson
12.1.1 / PG Diploma Psychology with Empirical Project Programme spec will need to reflect this step-off programme and tracked changes on the prog spec to be submitted by next SPQSC meeting on Wed 22nd Oct 2008. / Ashok Jansari
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