Introduction and mission


Mission, values, aims and objectives

Mission: To ensure that all stakeholders can have full confidence in the School's academic standards and quality assurance mechanisms.
Values: To work to the values of subsidiarity, transparency, innovation and participation. 
Aim 1: To manage professional, authoritative and proportionate quality assurance arrangements.
Objectives supporting Aim 1:
1.1 To advise the School on matters arising from the current national quality assurance agenda.
1.2 To keep our collective knowledge of national quality assurance policies and practice up to date. 
1.3 To support the School's programme of internal periodic reviews of educational provision and academic departments, and to look for ways to continuously improve the review procedures.
1.4 To maintain the accuracy of published curriculum information, and to keep the information the LSE Calendarwebsite and on TQARO's website up to date. 
1.5 To administer the delivery of the School's internal course and programme student satisfaction surveys, and to support the School's participation in the National Student Survey.
1.6 To manage the information about the School's portfolio of courses and programmes. 
1.7 To ensure that the student perspective informs the services provided by TQARO.
1.8 To promote TQARO's work effectively across the School.

Aim 2: To review the School's approach to quality assurance in light of the Office for Students Conditions of Registration and the guidance provided in the UK Quality Code for Higher Education.
Objectives supporting Aim 2:
2.1 To co-ordinate the implementation of Office for Students requirements, as appropriate.
2.2 To keep the School's 'Strategy for managing academic standards and quality' under review.
2.3 To provide accurate and accessible published information in the School's Calendar for staff and students.
2.4 To deliver an accurate and efficient survey of student teaching satisfaction, and to provide useful and timely reports of the outcomes in coordination with the Planning Division.

Aim 3: To service professionally those committees for which we are responsible and to contribute effectively to other School-wide processes.
Objectives supporting Aim 3:
3.1 To service professionally and effectively the Education Committee and three of its sub-committees: Graduate Studies Sub-committee, the Undergraduate Studies Sub-committee, and the Regulations, Policies and Standards Sub-committee.
3.2 To initiate and contribute to policy discussions arising from these bodies.
3.3 To produce high quality committee papers on QA activity to inform School discussions.