Mission, values, aims and objectives
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Mission: To ensure that all stakeholders can have full confidence in the School's academic standards and quality assurance mechanisms.
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Values: To work to the values of subsidiarity, transparency, innovation and participation.
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Aim 1: To manage professional, authoritative and proportionate quality assurance arrangements.
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Objectives supporting Aim 1:
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1.1
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To advise the School on matters arising from the current national quality assurance agenda, and to keep the information on TQARO's website up to date.
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1.2
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To keep our collective knowledge of national quality assurance policies up to date.
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To run the School's programme of internal reviews to a high standard, and to look for ways to continuously improve the review procedures.
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1.4
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To advise the School on maintaining the accuracy of published information.
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1.5
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To manage the information Departments provide via the annual programme monitoring exercise for the School.
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1.6
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To manage the information about the School's portfolio of courses and programmes.
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1.7
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To ensure that the student perspective informs the services provided by TQARO.
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1.8
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To promote TQARO's work effectively across the School.
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Aim 2: To review the School's approach to quality assurance in light of QAA Higher Education Review (HER) outcomes.
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Objectives supporting Aim 2:
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2.1
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To co-ordinate the implementation of QAA HER recommendations, as appropriate.
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2.2
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To keep the School's 'Strategy for managing academic standards and quality' under review.
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2.3
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To provide accurate and accessible published information in the School's Calendar for staff and students.
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2.4
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To deliver an accurate and efficient survey of student teaching satisfaction, and to provide useful and timely reports of the outcomes.
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Aim 3: To service professionally those committees for which we are responsible and to contribute effectively to other School-wide processes.
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Objectives supporting Aim 3:
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3.1
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To service professionally and effectively the Academic and Student Affairs Committee and its sub-committees: Graduate Studies Sub-committee and the Undergraduate Studies Sub-committee.
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3.2
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To initiate and contribute to policy discussions arising from these bodies.
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3.3
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To produce high quality committee papers on QA activity to inform School discussions
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