1. Partnership Forum 2017 Update on Developments at Kent
Malcolm Dixon

2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. Centre for Higher and Degree Apprenticeships
What’s New at Kent?
Centre for Higher and Degree Apprenticeships
Dr Scott Wildman, Director

7. 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.

8. 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