Learning & Teaching Board - Restructuring the Academic Year, 2007-2008

A series of guidelines and toolkits have been produced to assist Schools in the process of re-designing courses to incorporate the key requirements of Restructuring the Academic Year (RAY). These guidance notes are provided as various, seperate documents.

Section 1 - Curriculum Structure Guidelines

• Undergraduate Curriculum Structure: Summary Matrix
• Graduate and Postgraduate Taught Curriculum Structure: Summary Matrix

The tabular summaries, produced for ease of reference, provide an overview of the key principles outlined in the more comprehensive Curriculum Structure Guidelines.

• Undergraduate Curriculum Structure Guideline
• Graduate and Postgraduate Taught Curriculum Structure Guidelines

The guidelines provide full details of the core requirements of all taught courses (except EBS), in most cases of which Schools have the flexibility to determine thei own approaches to implementation. In addition, aspects which are optional or for guidance are included, which Schools may wish to consider implementing as part of the overall course re-design for RAY.

Section 2 - Curriculum Structure Toolkits

The toolkits provide advice to Schools on how to re-design learning, teaching and assessment approaches to incorporate the key principles of RAY into courses.

1. Introduction to Toolkits
2. Assessment Design Briefing Paper
3. Assessment Design Planning Tool
4. Employability & Professional Career Readiness Briefing Paper
5. Employability & Professional Career Readiness Planning Tool
6. First Year Experience Briefing Paper
7. First Year Experience Planning Tool
8. Effective Feedback Briefing Paper
9. Effective Feedback Planning Tool
10. Improving Student Engagement Briefing Paper
11. Improving Student Engagement Planning Tool
12. Internationalising the Curriculum Briefing Paper
13. Internationalising the Curriculum Planning Tool
14. Research-informed Learning & Teaching Briefing Paper
15. Research-informed Learning & Teaching Planning Tool
16. Improving Students' Scholarship Skills Briefing Paper
17. Improving Students' Scholarship Skills Planning Tool

• Disability Discrimination Act - Summary
• Equality and Diversity - Summary
• Sustainibility - summary

Section 3 - Programme, Course and Module Approval Guidelines and Templates

The various guidelines, coversheets and templates for Programme, Course and Module Approval (including course proposals for Restructuring the Academic Year) are available at the following web page:

http://www.hw.ac.uk/quality/approval-procedures.htm

Section 4 - RAY Resources from Schools

This section contains RAY materials, papers and other documents which have been produced by Schools and may be of use to other Schools as theu progress through the RAY process:

• School of Management and Languages: Supporting International Students
• School of Management and Languages: RAY Report and Plan (August 2007)

Structure of the Academic Year – Session Dates

Structure Session Dates 2008-2013

Structure of the Academic Year – Reports and Proposals

University-wide Procedural Issues: Short Summer 2008; Registration 2008/09; Student Accommodation Contracts 2008/09; Buildings Closed Days

Structure of the Academic Year - Newsletters

Restructuring the Academic Year Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 2 (December 2007) (pdf)

Structure of the Academic Year - Archive

Structure of the Academic Year, Session 2004/2005 - 2005/2006 (archive)
Structure of the Academic Year, Session 2003/2004 (archive)

Contact Details:

If you have any questions or comments related to the structure of the academic year, please email structure@hw.ac.uk