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. |
| 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 up to date. |
| 1.3 |
To administer the School's programme of internal periodic reviews of departments to a high standard, and to look for ways to continuously improve the review procedures. |
| 1.4 |
To advise the School on maintaining the accuracy of published information, and to keep the information on TQARO's website up to date. |
| 1.5 |
To manage the information Departments provide via the annual programme monitoring exercise for the School. |
| 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 QAA's status as Designated Quality Body for the Office for Students and the guidance provided in the Quality Code. |
| Objectives supporting Aim 2: |
| 2.1 |
To co-ordinate the implementation of QAA recommendations, 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. |
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 two of its sub-committees: Graduate Studies Sub-committee and the Undergraduate Studies 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. |