About ADQA

Overview

The Academic Development and Quality Assurance (ADQA) Section provides administrative support and committee and student services for the following aspects of the Registry's work:

Academic development:

• Academic policies
• Proposals and initiatives for new academic curricula and activities
• Development of approved undergraduate and taught postgraduate curricula
• Special Programme for EAS Students (including Joint University Programme for EAS Students)
• 4-year undergraduate curriculum reform

Teaching and learning quality assurance and enhancement:

• Teaching and Learning strategies and policies
• Teaching Excellence Award Scheme
• Teaching Development Grants Scheme
• Review of undergraduate and taught postgraduate curricula
• External Examiners
• Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning

Academic services and student records:

• Student registration and course enrolment
• Booking of centrally timetabled classrooms
• Examinations
• Discontinuation of student studies
• Database of student records in all curricula and programmes

The Section's activities and work in recent years have focused on

• the planning and development of the new 4-year curriculum for introduction from 2012-13 (“the 2012 curriculum”) and a new 3-year curriculum incorporating the key features of the 2012 curriculum being introduced from 2010-11 (“the 2010 curriculum”); and
• the development and implementation of the University’s Teaching and Learning Action Plan to enhance teaching and learning quality.