Auditing Your Department

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Auditing Your Department

The aims of the course: To understand the purpose of auditing your department To discuss the relationship between departmental audits and standards To develop a simple framework for auditing your department To make department's strategic planning more effective To provide guidance on the key issue of improving teaching and learning To consider the key aspects of leadership and management of your department
Programme	-- Maximum Group Size : 30 --
09.30 Registration and Coffee 10.00 Why Audit? Raising Standards Preparation for inspection Strategic Planning What to audit? 11.00 Coffee 11.15 Developing a Framework Attainment and Progress - objective measures Curriculum - matching needs of learners Assessment - monitoring progress Staffing - recruitment and deployment Teaching - the key to progress Monitoring and evaluating teaching	12.15 Activity One: Evaluating teaching and learning 13.00 Lunch 14.00 Leadership and management The role of the HEad od Department - providing the vision MAnagement of the department - key areas Setting targets Writing a development plan 14.30 Activity Two: Outlining a development plan 15.00 First steps to auditing your department Am action planning approach 15.30 Next steps, summary and close 15.45 Tea and depart

Reasons to attend. Departmental auditing, with a view to improving teaching and learning as well as developing effective SARs, is a critical function of every head of department, faculty and subject leader. This course is designed for all with responsibility for a subject area, course team department or faculty who wishes to improve the performance of their area.

Cost and Reservation This course is offered on an in-house basis

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