CENTRE FOR ACADEMIC STANDARDS AND QUALITY ENHANCEMENT CPA 4.1
Multiple Award Arrangements
Management and Administration Considerations
Considerations / Roles, responsibilities and any specific institutional requirements(who, how, when?)
MMU / Partner Organisation / Any other relevant information
Marketing of the programme (pre-entry) and approval arrangements
Open Day organisation and staffing
Student recruitment
Admissions of students
- Minimum Entry Requirements
- English Language requirements
- Agreed English language testing systems (required for issuing of CAS)
- Consideration of applications (direct entry and APL)
- Arrangements for student interviews/panels
- Decision making on offers
- Administration/ production of offer letters
- Student Disclosure and Barring
- CAS letters for Tier 4 students
- Student records and data sharing/availability
- Admissions Complaints Procedure
- Student Loans Company (which HEI will be on the students’ SLC application)
For Research Students
- FCO ATAS certificate
Induction
- Programme
- Library
- IT
- Other
Academic Calendar (ie number of cohorts/start dates/assessment dates
Enrolment
- Agreed arrangements for enrolment of students and issuing of student cards
Student Accommodation
Venue of programme delivery (if applicable identify by individual units)
Curriculum
- Responsibility for writing programme and unit specifications
- Intellectual property ownership
- Alignment to National Frameworks (for MMU this is the FHEQ)
- Approval arrangements
- Delivery of units
Assessment
- Assessment Regulations (including any required variations)
- Providing results to students
- Consideration of Exceptional Factors
- Academic Appeals
- Nomination and appointment of External Examiner(s)
- Communication with the External Examiner (s)
- Setting of assessments
- Marking of assessments
- Moderation of assessments
For Research Students
- Extension and Suspension requests
- Progression arrangements, ie, RD1, RD2
- Non-submission Fee
- Provision of internal examiners and Independent Chair
- Payment of External Examiners Fee
- Payment of External Examiners Travel and Subsistence Expenses.
Conferment of awards
Production of Academic Transcripts of Study
Award ceremony arrangements
Communications with students
- Day-to-day
- Production of programme handbook
- Production of unit handbooks
Student matters/support
- Personal tutors
- Learner Development support
- Careers
- Counselling
- Disability
- PLPs
- Assessment and support
- Academic Disciplinary procedures
- Non-Academic Disciplinary procedures
- Student Complaints
- Academic (course) complaints
- Non-academic (services/facilities complaints)
For Research Students
- Provision of Supervisory Team
- Annual Review
Access to resources
- Library
- IT
- VLE
For Research Students
- Student Development Programme
- Researcher Development Framework (RDF)
Quality assurance and enhancement
- Programme Committees
- Continuous Monitoring and Improvement (CMI)
- Programme evaluations
- Unit evaluations
- Minor modifications
- Programme Review Activity
- Approval of staff to deliver the programme
- Allocation of unit leaders
Staff support / development / HR matters
- Associate Lecturers/Honorary contracts
- Line management of course team
- PDR alignment
- Staff recruitment
For Research Students
- Supervisory Training
PSRBs
- Is there a PSRB involvement?
- Responsibilities for communicating with the PSRB
Placement/Exchange arrangements
- Sourcing
- Approval
- Monitoring
Partnership
- Arrangements for mutual partner approval
Partnership management
- Programme Leadership
- Line management of course team
- Link Tutors
- Conflict resolution
Finance/Funding/Data
- Costing of provision[thorough analysis or estimates?]
- Expenditure inclusions[bursaries?]
- Financial split
- HESA return [who, any franchise?]
- KIS data
- Course Designation[which HEI]
- Who bills whom?
- Tuition fee collection (& SLC)
- Student bursaries & loyalty discounts
- Data sharing
[2. between students and HEIs]
[both to include DHLE data]
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