Function activity model -Teaching & research
Study of Records Lifecycle
Contents
Teaching
The function of providing teaching to deliver the institution’s taught programmes.
Taught programmes include both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes leading to awards.
Teaching Strategy Development
RRS1.1
The activities involved in developing and establishing the institution’s teaching strategy.
Teaching Planning
RRS1.2
The activities involved in formulating plans to implement the institution’s teaching strategy.
Teaching Performance Management
RRS1.3
The activities involved in managing the institution’s performance against the plans for implementing its teaching strategy.
Activities include: developing performance indicators and measurement mechanisms; measuring, monitoring and analysing performance; conducting formal reviews of performance and responding to the results, including preparing and implementing action plans to address under-performance or other issues raised.
Teaching Policy Development
RRS1.4
The activities involved in developing and establishing the institution’s teaching policies.
Activities include: identifying policy requirements; developing policy proposals; consulting on proposals; reviewing and revising proposals in the light of comments received; obtaining formal endorsement of proposed policy; disseminating agreed policy; reviewing policy on an ongoing basis.
Teaching Procedures Development
RRS1.5
The activities involved in developing the institution’s teaching procedures.
Teaching Quality & Standards Management
RRS1.6
The activities involved in managing the overall quality and standards of teaching and taught programmes in the institution.
Activities include: developing and implementing internal quality assurance processes; conducting formal internal reviews of teaching quality and responding to the results, including preparing and implementing action plans to address issues raised; facilitating and participating in external reviews and audits of teaching quality and standards conducted by statutory or other official bodies and responding to the results, including preparing and implementing action plans to address issues raised or to meet specific requirements.
Taught Curriculum Development
RRS1.7
The activities involved in developing the institution’s taught curriculum.
Activities include: monitoring curriculum developments and trends in the HE sector; monitoring government policies and initiatives which have implications for HE curriculum development; monitoring social and market trends; developing new curricula; re-developing existing curricula; withdrawing curricula.
Taught Curriculum Review
RRS1.8
The activities involved in reviewing the institution’s taught curriculum to inform ongoing curriculum development.
Activities include: collecting, reviewing and responding to feedback on the curriculum from staff, students, external examiners and others; reviewing and responding to the results of internal and external reviews of the curriculum, including preparing and implementing action plans to address issues raised.
Taught Programme Development
RRS1.9
The activities involved in developing the institution’s taught programmes.
Activities include: monitoring programme developments and trends in the HE sector; monitoring government policies and initiatives that have implications for HE programme development; monitoring social and market trends; reviewing and responding to the results of internal and external reviews of overall teaching performance and quality or of specific programmes; developing new programmes; re-developing existing programmes; withdrawing programmes.
Taught Programme Approval & Accreditation
RRS1.10
The activities involved in obtaining approval and/or accreditation for the institution’s taught programmes from professional, statutory or other accreditation bodies.
Activities include: applying for accreditation; preparing for accreditation visits; responding to accreditation reports, including preparation of action plans to meet any accreditation requirements.
Taught Programme Review
RRS1.11
The activities involved in reviewing the institution’s taught programmes to inform ongoing programme development.
Activities include: collecting and analysing student numbers and other programme statistics; collecting, reviewing and responding to feedback on programmes from staff, students, external examiners and others, including preparing and implementing action plans to address issues raised.
Taught Course Development
RRS1.12
The activities involved in developing the institution’s taught courses.
Activities include: monitoring course developments and trends in the HE sector; monitoring government policies and initiatives that have implications for HE course development; identifying market needs for new courses through surveys, monitoring of enquiries and take-up of existing courses; monitoring and reviewing courses offered by other HE institutions; reviewing and responding to results of internal and external reviews of overall teaching performance and quality, or of specific courses; developing new courses; re-developing existing courses; withdrawing courses.
Taught Course Preparation & Delivery
RRS1.13
The activities involved in delivering teaching and supporting learning through lectures, tutorials, seminars, practical classes, ICT packages, fieldwork, work placements or other methods.
Activities include: making course materials available to students; preparing for and conducting teaching events; dealing with students directly and indirectly to resolve issues and problems arising from teaching events.
Taught Course Review
RRS1.14
The activities involved in reviewing courses to inform ongoing course development.
Activities include: collecting and analysing student numbers and other course statistics; collecting, reviewing and responding to feedback on courses from staff, students, external examiners and others, including preparing and implementing action plans to address issues raised.
Taught Course Assessment
RRS1.15
The activities involved in setting and marking/grading course assessments.
Assessments include examinations and assessed work (e.g. dissertations, theses, work placement reports).
Activities include: setting assessments; marking/grading assessments; reviewing marks awarded in response to notifications of mitigating circumstances; conducting examiners’ meetings; determining awards and classifications.
Taught Student Academic Support
RRS1.16
The activities involved in monitoring individual students’ academic progress and providing feedback, guidance and support.
Activities include: providing systematic feedback to students on their academic progress; providing students with general academic advice and guidance; providing advice and guidance to students whose progress is unsatisfactory; providing advice and guidance to students who are considering suspending or terminating their studies; determining eligibility of students to resubmit coursework or resit examinations.
Research
The function of undertaking research and delivering the institution’s supervised research programmes.
Research Strategy Development
RRS2.1
The activities involved in developing and establishing the institution’s research strategy.
Research Planning
RRS2.2
The activities involved in formulating plans to implement the institution’s research strategy.
Research Performance Management
RRS2.3
The activities involved in managing the institution’s performance against the plans for implementing its research strategy.
Activities include: developing performance indicators and measurement mechanisms; measuring, monitoring and analysing performance; conducting formal reviews of performance and responding to the results, including preparing and implementing action plans to address under-performance or other issues raised; reporting on the institution’s overall research performance to internal and external stakeholders.
Research Policy Development
RRS2.4
The activities involved in developing and establishing the institution’s research policies.
Research Procedures Development
RRS2.5
The activities involved in developing the institution’s research procedures.
Research Quality & Standards Management
RRS2.6
The activities involved in managing the overall quality and standards of research and research programmes undertaken in the institution.
Activities include: developing and implementing internal quality assurance processes for research and the development and delivery of research programmes; conducting formal internal reviews of research quality and standards and responding to the results, including preparing and implementing action plans to address issues raised; facilitating and participating in external reviews and audits of research quality and standards conducted by statutory and other official bodies and responding to the results, including preparing and implementing action plans to address issues raised or to meet specific requirements.
Research Business Development
RRS2.7
The activities involved in promoting the institution’s research capabilities and profile and developing new research opportunities.
Activities include: liaising with research sponsors to monitor their research policies and objectives and to promote the institution’s research capabilities, projects and achievements; identifying and developing new research opportunities; identifying and targeting research funding opportunities; identifying and developing opportunities for collaboration and partnership to undertake research.
Research Project Development
RRS2.8
The activities involved in developing ideas for research into formal project proposals.
Activities include: generating, capturing and developing ideas for research projects; defining research aims and objectives; designing research methods and tools; identifying and addressing legal, compliance and ethical issues relevant to proposed projects; determining requirements for project resources; preparing formal project proposals; obtaining institutional approval for project proposals; obtaining approval and funding for proposed projects from the institution or from external sources through grants or other awards or contracts.
Research Project Conduct
RRS2.9
The activities involved in conducting research.
Activities will vary according to the nature of the research, but are likely to include: collecting, collating and analysing data; generating and presenting results.
Research Project Management
RRS2.10
The activities involved in managing the conduct and progress of research projects from formal initiation to formal completion.
Activities include: monitoring and tracking progress; managing project staff; managing project budgets; managing procurement of equipment, consumables and third party services; managing project data and records; producing reports for project stakeholders; ensuring compliance with institutional research policies and procedures; ensuring compliance with legislation, standards and procedures; ensuring compliance with the conditions of any licences or registrations; ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of grants or other funding awards; ensuring compliance with the terms of sponsor contracts by all parties.
Research Dissemination
RRS2.11
The activities involved in publicising and disseminating research results.
Activities include: preparing announcements of research results; preparing papers for publication, audio-visual presentations, demonstrations or other means of disseminating research results; liaising with specialist staff regarding the production and distribution of publications and the organisation of events.
Research Exploitation
RRS2.12
The activities involved in developing the commercial potential of research results.
Activities include: identifying new intellectual property and liaising with specialist staff to register patents and designs; identifying opportunities for commercial collaboration/partnerships and liaising with specialist staff to establish spin-out companies to develop commercial products.
Research Programme Development
RRS2.13
The activities involved in developing the institution’s research programmes.
Research Programme Review
RRS2.14
The activities involved in reviewing research programmes to inform ongoing programme development.
Research Student Assessment
RRS2.15
The activities involved in conducting formal assessments of work undertaken by research students.
Assessments include formal progress assessments and final examination of theses.
Activities include: conducting assessments; grading assessments; conducting examiners’ meetings; determining awards and classifications.
Research Student Academic Supervision & Support
RRS2.16
The activities involved in supervising and supporting work undertaken by research students, and monitoring progress.
Activities include: appointing supervisors for research students; providing advice to research students on the selection of research subjects; providing advice and guidance to research students in the course of their work; providing advice and guidance to research students regarding alterations to periods of study; providing advice and guidance to research students whose progress is unsatisfactory; providing advice and guidance to research students who are considering suspending or terminating their studies; providing training for research students in research-related skills and providing other development opportunities such as seminars and events.