Date of review	Publication date	Type of review	Judgements about quality and standards	Reference
Apr-2007	3 May 2007	Institutional Review: Wales	Confidence can be placed in the soundness of the institution's current and likely future management of the quality of its academic programmes and the academic standards of its awards. - What does this mean?	ISBN 978 1 84482 684 1

Features of good practice	Recommendations for action
The review team identified the following areas as being good practice: the integration of financial and academic planning through the work of the Planning Group in the Planning Round the rigour of the scheme (programme) approval and departmental review processes the arrangements in place to support those students studying through distancelearning methods, particularly in the Department of Information Studies the thorough scrutiny of external examiners' reports and the clear allocation of responsibility for taking appropriate action in response the work of the Careers Advisory Service in operating both the Student Skills Competition as a means of gaining feedback from employers of the students acquisition of transferable skills, and the Year in Employment Scheme, and the high level of support given by Welsh-speaking academics to students studying through the medium of Welsh.	The review team advises the institution to: review its current management of the quality agenda to enable it to adopt a more proactive stance review, as a matter of urgency, the design of its degree schemes and the regulatory framework for awards with a view to satisfying itself that its students achieve all the planned learning outcomes associated with their intended award keep its assessment regulations under review, taking note of practice in the wider higher education sector review access to the library in vacation periods, especially for postgraduate research students, and review the accuracy of information provided to prospective and current students concerning the delivery of modules through the medium of Welsh wit a view to ensuring that students have realistic expectations of the extent of Welsh-medium provision available to them. The team further considers that it would be desirable for UWA to: consider the means by which good practice from the new annual monitoring process can be drawn out and disseminated across the institution, and how matters of concern or institutional level issues arising from the process are identified and handled.

Features of good practice

Recommendations for action

The review team identified the following areas as being good practice:

the integration of financial and academic planning through the work of the Planning Group in the Planning Round
the rigour of the scheme (programme) approval and departmental review processes
the arrangements in place to support those students studying through distancelearning methods, particularly in the Department of Information Studies
the thorough scrutiny of external examiners' reports and the clear allocation of responsibility for taking appropriate action in response
the work of the Careers Advisory Service in operating both the Student Skills Competition as a means of gaining feedback from employers of the students acquisition of transferable skills, and the Year in Employment Scheme, and
the high level of support given by Welsh-speaking academics to students studying through the medium of Welsh.

The review team advises the institution to:

review its current management of the quality agenda to enable it to adopt a more proactive stance
review, as a matter of urgency, the design of its degree schemes and the regulatory framework for awards with a view to satisfying itself that its students achieve all the planned learning outcomes associated with their intended award
keep its assessment regulations under review, taking note of practice in the wider higher education sector
review access to the library in vacation periods, especially for postgraduate research students, and
review the accuracy of information provided to prospective and current students concerning the delivery of modules through the medium of Welsh wit a view to ensuring that students have realistic expectations of the extent of Welsh-medium provision available to them.

The team further considers that it would be desirable for UWA to:

consider the means by which good practice from the new annual monitoring process can be drawn out and disseminated across the institution, and how matters of concern or institutional level issues arising from the process are identified and handled.

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