P1415-1386

PROBATIONARY REPORT FORM

Name of Probationer:

Staff Number:

College:

Post:

Date of Appointment:

Full time/Part time*

Stage of Probation Completed: 11 months / 23 Months / 35 months

Do you hold a PhD? YES/NO*

*please delete

NOTES FOR COMPLETING THIS FORM:

The probationary member of staff should complete section I. S/he should then hand the form to her/his Head of College.

The Head of College should complete section II.

The probationer should add any further comment in response to the Head of College’s assessment and then sign the form.

The Head of College is responsible for ensuring that the completed forms are returned to the Director of Human Resources by the anniversary of the probationer’s appointment or earlier if an Academic Staffing Sub-Committee is imminent.

Dates of Academic Staffing Sub-Committee:

University Diary of Meetings

SECTION I - to be completed by the Probationer

A.TEACHING

1.1With reference to your Probation Targets form (P1415-1385), please comment on your progress towards achievement of the targets. Please include a summary of your teaching commitments (e.g. a list of courses/modules taught, indicating titles and codes of modules, total contact hours per module and the number of hours committed to lectures, seminars, tutorials, laboratory/practical supervision, project supervision and supervision of postgraduate students).

1.2If you have not achieved or do not anticipate achieving any targets please give reasons why and detail actions to be taken to achieve these targets by the next review.

1.3PGCtHEis mandatory for probation completion. Please detail your progress to date in relation to this.

1.4If there is no progress as yet, please detail the actions to be taken to achieve this by the end of the probationary period, including target completion date.

1.5Please attach details of your recent module evaluation scores.

B.RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION

2.1With reference to your Probation Targets form (P1415-1385). Please comment on your progress towards achievement of the targets?

2.2If you have not as yet achieved any of the targets, please give reasons and detail actions to be taken to achieve these targets by the next review..

*2.3Please list all publications since appointment. For journal articles please give complete title, full citation and page numbers. Where you are a co-author, please indicate the extent of your contribution. Where appropriate please give some indication of the journal’s standing and the nature of the refereeing process. For books please give full publication details, including publisher, number of pages and an indication of the nature of the book, e.g. a monograph, a general survey, a student textbook.

*2.4Please give details of any publications currently in press or work submitted but not yet accepted for publication.

*2.5Please give details of all research grant income in the last year and grant applications currently pending or other research outcomes.

(*Teaching and Research staff only)

C.ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

3.1With reference to your Probation Targets form (P1415-1385). Please comment on your progress towards achievement of the targets? Please state any additional administrative responsibilities that you have undertaken.

3.2If you have not as yet achieved any of the targets, please give reasons and detail actions to be taken to achieve these targets by the next review.

D.CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROFESSION AND TO THE UNIVERSITY’S INNOVATION AND ENGAGEMENT AGENDA

This section is to be completed only if relevant.

4.1With reference to your Probation Targets form (P1415-1385). Please comment on your progress towards achievement of the targets.

4.2If you have not as yet achieved any of the targets, please give reasons and detail actions to be taken to achieve these targets by the next review.

E.OTHER RELEVANT CIRCUMSTANCES

Are there any personal circumstances which you wish to draw to the attention of the Academic Staffing Sub-Committee? If so, please indicate their nature and the ways in which they have impacted on your work over the past year.

If you wish you may discuss the matters raised in private with theChair of the Academic Staffing Sub-Committee. Contact details available from the Human Resources Department.

SECTION II - to be completed by the Head of College

A.TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

1.1Do you consider that satisfactory progress is being made towards targets? Yes/No

Please detail progress towards set targets below:

1.2Please offer an overall assessment of the quality of the probationer’s teaching, based on student evaluations, peer observation, your own observation of the probationer’s teaching, assessment outcomes, evidence arising from module and programme review and on the probationer’s role and qualities as a supervisor of postgraduate research (if appropriate)

B.RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION

2.1Do you consider that satisfactory progress is being made towards targets? Yes/No

Please detail progress towards set targets below:

2.2Please comment on the quality of the probationer’s research?

C.ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

3.1Do you consider that satisfactory progress is being made towards targets? Yes/No

Please detail progress towards set targets below:

3.2Please comment on the effectiveness with which the probationer has carried out his or her administrative responsibilities.

D.CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROFESSION AND TO THE UNIVERSITY’S INNOVATION AND ENGAGEMENT AGENDA

This section is to be completed only if relevant.

4.1Do you consider that satisfactory progress is being made towards targets? Yes/No

Please detail progress towards set targets below:

E.OTHER RELEVANT CIRCUMSTANCES

Please comment on any matters raised by the Probationer in Section I - E.

F.Head of College’s Recommendation

6.1Is your overall judgment that the probationer’s performance in teaching, research, administration and, where appropriate, innovation and engagement satisfactory? Yes / No

Please summarise the reasons for your recommendations below:

6.2If you have expressed reservations, please indicate any current or planned remedial action.

Probationer’s Comments

6.3Are you satisfied with the comments and judgments made by your Head of College in this report?Yes/No

6.4If you expressed disagreement with the judgments of your Head of College please state the basis of your disagreement and the evidence that you wish the Academic Staffing Sub-Committee to consider.

(Please use an additional sheet if necessary)

Signed:

……………………………………. Probationer ………………………… Date

……………………………………. Head of College ……………………. Date

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