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Mental Health modules - The Open University - External Examiner
Expressions of interest for the above post are invited.
The External Examiner will be appointed to cover two 60 credit undergraduate modules:
K240 Mental Health and Community
http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/modules/k240
K314 Approaches to Mental Health
http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/modules/k314
Please read the criteria below and if you are interested in applying send a copy of your CV with one or two paragraphs setting out your suitability for this role to:
WHO CAN BE AN EXTERNAL ASSESSOR?
The external assessor appointed should be experienced in his/her field and should normally be a current professor, reader or senior lecturer at a Higher Education Institution within the UK.
The following categories of people are considered to be ineligible to act as an external
assessor:
· current and former OU staff (including associate lecturers) for five years after the end of their employment;
· visiting academic staff during and for a year after the end of their visit;
· all contributors to the module materials (including authors or editors of module readers, set books, or any other module material);
· the external assessor or external examiner of a precursor module whose total association with the module and its precursor in these roles would exceed four years. A precursor module for this purpose is defined as a previously existing
module which covers the same or similar content or one which has the same function in the curriculum. This four-year association includes any periods spent as an external adviser to a Programme Committee or Board of Studies where the module in question is
one of the core modules counting towards a degree managed by the committee. Within this four-year period, it would be acceptable for an individual to be simultaneously both an external assessor (for one or more of the modules contributing to a particular qualification)
and an external examiner; but not to be both an external examiner and an external adviser to the same programme or Board of Studies.
· An assessor who has served the maximum term for the University (four years) but has not had a break in service of at least two years before taking up a further appointment with the University.
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Chief External Examiner role The Open University
Purpose
To obtain external assurance of the academic standards of the University’s stage
progression and qualification completion processes for those qualifications within a
nominated Qualification Group, and to comment on their alignment with standards
and student performance within the higher education sector.
The duties of a Chief External Examiner may be summarised as follows:
(1) To receive a data report showing the progression, completion and classification data
for eligible students registered on qualifications within the nominated Qualification
Group.
(2) At each conflation, to review, with members of the Progression and Completion
Board, the progression, completion and classification data for eligible students on
qualifications within the Qualification Group and to raise any specific concerns.
(3) To recommend, together with the other members of the Progression and Completion
Board, a stage and qualification completion and classification outcome for each
eligible student.
(4) Where required, to recommend, together with the other members of the Progression
and Completion Board, an outcome for each student eligible for discretionary
consideration at stage and/or qualification completion and classification.
(5) To raise, together with the other members of the Progression and Completion Board,
any immediate concerns.
(6) To receive copies of the External Examiner reports for Module Groups within the
Cluster; and those of other Module Groups as pertinent to the Qualification Group.
(7) To submit an annual report to the Vice Chancellor commenting on the progression
and completion of students on qualifications within the Qualification Group, covering:
(i) the University’s procedures and processes for stage progression and
qualification completion and classification;
(ii) the performance of the students on the qualifications in relation to standards
across the Sector;
(i) any other matter which they feel is appropriate.