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LevelSeries
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)UB/COM/141
TitleRecords of University of Birmingham Educational Development Committee
Extent1 volume
Date2003-2005
DescriptionMinutes of a committee established in 2003 to monitor the implementation of the University's Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy and assist in its development. It considered issues relating to the enhancement and development of learning and teaching policy and pedagogy, including the approval of allocation of funds by the Learning Development Unit (LDU), the review and promotion of University and School Learning and Teaching Strategies, and identification and dissemination of good practice. Where appropriate, issues of policy, operational or regulatory implications were referred to the relevant sub-committee

It reported to the Academic Board

Membership consisted of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Quality and Students); three Directors of Learning and Teaching; the Director of CETADL; the Director of C-SAP; the Assistant Director of Maths, Statistics and/or LTSN; the Director of the Careers Centre; the Assistant Director of Information Services (Learning and Research Support); the Director of the Learning Development Unit; the Director of Policy Development; the Staff Development Manager; the Director of Widening Participation; and the Vice-President (Education) of the Guild of Students

Minutes include copies of the University's Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy and discussion of (and copies of) School strategies; discussion of Widening Participation strategy; papers relating to eLearning, particularly in response to the Higher Education Funding Council for England eLearning Strategy and Department For Education and Skills eLearning Strategy, and reports of the University's eLearning Strategy Working Group; Learning Development Unit funding; assessment strategies and marking practices; papers relating to the Disability Forum; references to the Institutional Audit; and Policy for the Provision of Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance

Minutes of the meeting held on 12 January 2005 include a copy of the University response to the National consultation by Universities UK, Standing Conference of Principals, Higher Education Funding Council for England, and the Higher Education Academy 'Towards a framework of professional teaching standards'

No minutes of the Educational Development Committee after 2005 have been transferred to the University Archives. It is likely that this committee was replaced at some point by the Education Committee (see UB/COM/54 for minutes from 2012 onwards)
NotesOld Reference: SEN94
Most University Committee minutes are subject to a fifty year closure period. Where records relating to living individuals are of a sensitive nature, further access restrictions have been applied
RECORDS OF THIS COMMITTEE ARE CLOSED
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