Dear colleagues
We are trying to draw together viability/sustainability criteria for both
programmes and modules. For example, for modules we want to identify a
threshold number of enrolled students, below which departments must provide
justification. Other proposed criteria are a) the number of modules
provided by departments, b) the ratio of modules per staff member, c)
proportion of funded students per module and so on. We have a portfolio
review group as a sub-committee of planning and resources committee. This
group currently approves the addition of new programme proposals and
proposals for discontinuing programmes. The group also wishes to
rationalise the whole portfolio of modules across the University.
I'd be grateful for any information that people might care to send in this
regard and of course to share general findings.
Thanks
Sheena Stewart
Senior Academic Services Officer
University of Abertay Dundee
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