Application for University Title

Contents

1. Introduction
   • Purpose and background
   • Summary
2. Mission, size, and organisation
   • Mission and powers
   • Size, student and staff base
   • Subject mix and academic profile
   • Collaboration
   • Management and organisation
3. Readiness for university title
   • Experience of awarding degrees
   • The external view: national agencies and ?league tables?
   • Management of change
   • QAA institutional audit May 2003
   • Conclusion
4. Academic and professional expertise of staff
   • Qualifications and expertise of staff
   • Quality of staff
   • Recognition by external peers
   • Maintaining the quality of staff
5. Engagement with pedagogic development
   • Evidence of engagement with pedagogical development
   • Assuring the Academic Board about pedagogical development
   • Support for ongoing involvement in pedagogical development
   • Conclusion
6. Staff scholarship and the curriculum
   • Research Assessment Exercises 1992, 1996 and 2001
   • Research and scholarship beyond the RAE
   • Scholarship and the currency of courses
   • Quality assurance and currency of scholarship
   • Conclusion
7. Staff development and appraisal for teaching effectiveness
8. Staff with key programme management responsibilities
   • Experience of curriculum development and assessment design
   • Engagement with other providers
   • Conclusion
9. The teaching-led university
   • Conclusion

• Appendix A: Student numbers 2003/04
• Appendix B: Subject review 1992?2001
• Appendix C: Ofsted results, 2000?04
• Appendix D: RAE results, 1992, 1996, 2001
• Appendix E: Staff with programme-management responsibilities
• Appendix F: Glossary

Last updated by David Timms 01 November 2004