Partnership Forum 2017 Update on Developments at Kent Malcolm Dixon

What’s New at Kent? New Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Karen Cox (1st August 2017) New Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Education Professor April McMahon Education Board & Academic Standards and Quality Committee (ASQC)

What’s New in the QA Team? New member of staff Carla Doolan, Quality Officer: Established Provision Matt Redmond is currently on secondment to the KSDD project

What’s New at Kent? The Kent Service Delivery Diagnostic Project (KSDD) “Simplifying Kent” to free up staff time through working more efficiently and effectively to speed up decision making processes Nine Projects – Inc. Programme & Module Approval

New student record system KentVision (SITS) What’s New at Kent? New student record system KentVision (SITS) Implementation: September 2017 Breakout Session – this afternoon.

Centre for Higher and Degree Apprenticeships What’s New at Kent? Centre for Higher and Degree Apprenticeships Dr Scott Wildman, Director s.s.wildman@kent.ac.uk

QA Changes in 2016/17: Credit Framework Legitimate Non-Concessionary Reasons for Missing an Assessment Such as participation in a high level (e.g. national) sporting event or a job or placement interview; an appropriate School response might be rescheduling the assessment or, in extreme cases or when rescheduling is not appropriate, disregarding the assessment.

QA Changes in 2017/18: Credit Framework Unified set of classification conventions for UG & PGT programmes – 2017/18; Essentially, the adoption of the UG conventions: Rounding of marks Removes the borderline for PGT Universal preponderance