Dr Claire Phillips BVM&S PhD MRCVS FHEA Quality Assurance and Enhancement at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Dr Claire Phillips BVM&S PhD MRCVS FHEA Vet School Director of Quality Senior Clinical Lecturer Claire.phillips@ed.ac.uk HERE Study Visit – 4th October 2017

Quality Assurance and Enhancement at the Vet School Context Undergraduate programme (Veterinary degree BVM&S) 4 and 5 year programmes Class size – 50 - 180 Professional degree All students must take and pass all courses Professional Statutory Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs) Postgraduate Taught Programmes (on campus and online)

Key features of our Quality Assurance and Enhancement processes Regular Evidence – based. Two way ‘conversation’ Reporting to … Feedback outcomes to those involved in the process Communication Consistent Clear Achievable Effective Efficient Reliable Inclusive Relevant Robust Recorded Vet School Quality Assurance Vet Medicine Quality Assurance and Enhancement Committee (VMQAEC) UG Learning and Teaching Committee (UG L&TC)

Staff engagement: All teaching team encouraged to contribute to QA Student / Teaching team mid-course meetings Post course review meetings Granularity of QA process – relevant to staff Professional development School-specific quality assurance and enhancement workshops Edinburgh Teaching Award – encouraged and supported. Higher Education Academy recognition. Student engagement: Course level feedback opportunities - from and to students Eg. Mid-course – TopHat, Traffic light cards, weekly clinical rotation Student representation on key School committees – VMQAEC and UG L&TC ‘You said – We did/listened’ ‘What matters to ewe’ Communication: Two way, visible, repository of documentation

At course level – within course Programme level CLOSING THE LOOP between courses REFLECTION

Quality Assurance and Enhancement at the Vet School - undergraduate Programme/School level Course level Evidence-based: Suite of documents for each course. Generated during and after course Plus Course Organiser Reflective Summary 1 Annual summaries Programme report, School services reports, National Student Survey, Graduate and employer surveys Independent review of each course 2 2 Senate and College QA Committees School Annual QA Report 5 7 VMQAEC 3 UG and PG L&TC Themes: problems across courses. Good practice Innovation 6 4

Summary Locally - workable within but not just for the wider framework ‘Close the loop’ – feedback – feedforward Review processes regularly Communicate Image Claire Phillips © Claire.phillips@ed.ac.uk