Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee
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Purpose
The Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee (LTSEC) is the key strategic committee of Academic Board responsible for strategic planning and policy development matters relating to all aspects of learning, teaching, enhancement, and the student experience.
These include the quality of learning and teaching in relation to any award with which the College is associated; and matters relating to student experience, including student voice, student support and retention.
LTSEC has three subcommittees which focus on particular aspects of its overall remit and report to it: Programme Scrutiny Sub Committee (PSSC), Student Access Participation and Outcomes Sub Committee (SAPOSC) and Student Transitions Programme Board.
- To consider and advise on the development of the College’s overall Learning, Teaching and Assessment [LTA] Strategy ensuring that it takes account of contemporary pedagogic research and best practice, and to recommend a strategy to Academic Board;
- To establish clear communications with the Learning and Teaching Committees of individual departments in each School, in order to facilitate effective development and monitoring of departmental LTA strategies and action plans;
- To monitor the College’s progress against LTA Strategy objectives and associated action plans;
- To develop and promote best practice and innovation in learning and teaching, taking account of research and development work undertaken in the Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TaLIC);
- To develop and promote the College’s approaches to enhancing the student experience, and for encouraging the internal sharing of good practice with respect to student experience including, student voice, student wellbeing, retention and engagement;
- To receive reports and minutes from its sub-committees and to approve their recommendations as appropriate;
- To consider and report to Academic Board on the following, together with any proposals which require action by the Board or by other individuals or bodies within the College:
- annual reports relating to the quality of teaching and learning;
- annual reports relating to student survey data (internal and external), including the NSS;
- reports relating to the College’s Access and Participation Plan, including confirmation of Departmental Development Plans produced in response to APP (and other) targets and monitored by SAPOSC;
- To consider, and advise Academic Board on, strategic planning and policy development matters relating to learning resources
| Composition | Member | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Chair: Pro-Warden Academic | Professor Paul Rowlett | ex officio |
| Head of Student Success | Tobin Webb | ex officio |
| Chair of Programme Scrutiny Sub-Committee | Professor Tara Page | ex officio |
| Chair of Student Access, Participation and Outcomes Sub-Committee | Professor Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos | ex officio |
| Director of Library Services | Andrew Preater | ex officio |
| Director of the Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre | Professor Marco Gillies | ex officio |
| Academic Director International Development and Academic Partnerships | Professor Tara Page | ex officio |
| Chief Information Officer | David Minahan | ex officio |
| Head of Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion | Waqar Ali | ex officio |
| One academic representative from each School | Dr Shela Sheikh [MCCS] | to 2024 (eot) |
| Dr Geri Popova [ECW] | to 2024 (eot) | |
| Dr Alice Jones Bartoli [Psychology] | to 2024 (eot) | |
| Up to three additional members of the academic staff appointed by the Chair | Dr Carole Sweeney [ECW] | to 2025 |
| Dr Vik Loveday [Sociology] | to 2024 (eot) | |
| Dr Carla Figueira [ICCE] | to 2024 (eot) | |
| The Education Officer of the Student's Union | Victoria Chwa | ex officio |
| One other sabbatical officer of the Students' Union | Hafsa Haji | to 2023 |
| A Postgraduate Research Departmental Student Co-Ordinator | Molly Pardoe | to 2023 |
| One Student Co-Ordinator from each School (including one Postgraduate Student) | Anne Marie Sanguigni [PSST] | to 2023 |
| Himmat Kaur Sanghera [C&S] | to 2023 | |
| Izzy Tarren [A&H] | to 2023 | |
| Secretary | Gareth Bodrell |
Terms of office on committees are for three years, renewable for three further years. If the letters "eot" appear against a person's name in a membership listing, this indicates that he or she will reach the maximum term as a member of the body concerned on 31 August in the year specified.