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Departments should include information about action taken in response to conditions and recommendations in the subsequent annual review of courses report and where the conditions and/or recommendations require ongoing action then they should be included in the annual review of courses action plan (see annual review of courses process).
In following years an update on ongoing action should be provided.
Where a periodic review panel has set conditions which must be met, a deadline will be set, and the department must make a formal response evidencing how specific conditions have been met by these deadlines. This response is formally reported to the Faculty Education Committee.
Information about how recommendations have been addressed should be included in the next annual review of courses, unless the Dean of Faculty or Faculty Education Committee requires a response before then. Departments are required to provide information about action taken in response to Periodic Review via the annual review of courses process.
Not all recommendations arising from Periodic Review are within the power of the department to action.
The department should raise University level issues with the PVC and include the outcome of these discussions in the next annual review of courses report. Where an issue is referred to another department, office or to a Committee the departments should receive written replies from the relevant offices/committees for inclusion in annual review of courses reports. Resource based recommendations may also be cited as evidence in annual planning statements when highlighting a need for additional resources.
The PVC will refer matters for discussion to the Faculty Steering Group and decision by USG as appropriate and inform the department and Academic Standards and Partnerships Office of the outcome. The outcome will be reported to the Faculty Education Committee.
Page last updated: 16 September 2013