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Teaching quality
This section contains information regarding the management of teaching quality in the college including mechanisms for reviewing and ensuring the quality of teaching provided.
Programme approval:
Programme approval and monitoring arrangements.
Programme approval:
The Academic Development Committee, which is a sub committee of the Learning, Teaching and Quality Committee, meets monthly to scrutinise proposals for new and revised programmes for both further education (FE up to SCQF level 6) and higher education (HE from SCQF level 7 upwards).
The College has a process for programme approval for FE and HE.
Programme monitoring and review:
Programmes delivered by the College are reviewed twice per year and are subject to internal and external audit. Programme reviews are monitored by the Quality Unit.
External audit is carried out by the awarding/ certification/ accrediting body.
For further information please contact:
Quality Unit
Inverness College UHI
3 Longman Road
Longman South
Inverness
IV1 1SA
Telephone: +44 (0)1463 273000
Email: Quality.Unit@inverness.uhi.ac.uk
Student satisfaction:
Anonymous summary results of surveys of student satisfaction with the College.
The College carries out two student surveys per year to gauge student satisfaction across a range of services.
The College contracts with an external specialist organisation QDP Services to ensure that the surveys are objective and anonymous. Survey reports are accessible to all staff and are analysed and used by teams for programme review, support service review, self evaluation, quality enhancement themes and strategic and operational planning.
Outcomes of the surveys are monitored by the Senior Management Team and Learning and Teaching Committee of the Board of Management.
The College holds Student Focus Groups on a regular basis.
The College has set up an interactive web site www.studentvoice.inverness.uhi.ac.uk specifically to engage with students in quality issues and other aspects of student life, providing information from both the Quality Unit and the Student Association, and is administered by a Quality Officer.
For further information please contact:
Quality Unit
Inverness College UHI
3 Longman Road
Longman South
Inverness
IV1 1SA
Telephone: +44 (0)1463 273506
Email: Quality.Unit@inverness.uhi.ac.uk
Institutional internal reviews:
Summary of the findings and evidence presented to teams undertaking the college’s own internal reviews of quality and standards.
Institutional internal reviews are monitored by the Quality Unit, and key themes, issues and outcomes are reported to College Academic Committees and the Learning and Teaching Committee of the Board of Management twice per year.
Professional accreditation of courses by external bodies:
The nature of and duration of accreditation by professional, statutory or regulatory bodies, including accreditation and monitoring reports.
External accreditation is carried out by the awarding/ certification/ accrediting body for relevant courses.
For further information please contact:
Quality Unit
Inverness College UHI
3 Longman Road
Longman South
Inverness
IV1 1SA
Telephone: +44 (0)1463 273000
Email: Quality.Unit@inverness.uhi.ac.uk
Validation:
A description of courses where the college acts as an external examination body or validates the examinations and qualifications of others, including ‘joint awards’.
Inverness College UHI does not currently validate any courses or programmes.
Quality assurance assessments of the college’s provision:
Reports submitted to (and received from) external accreditation bodies relating to assessment of the college’s provision.
The College receives assessment reports on its quality assurance activities from a number of bodies.
These include HMIe, SQA, UHI, EAL, C&G, ECDL, CMI, BPEC, ECITB, University of Cambridge (ESOL), SIA, IIP.
