| Description | Minutes of the Education committee from October 2012 to June 2025. Minutes are usually confirmed versions, but are not signed
Minutes are numbered in a yearly numbering system, using the calendar year followed by a consequential numerical sequence beginning from 1 at the start of each year.
The committee usually meets five or six times a year. It is not clear when it was established. Minutes from 18 October 2012 have been transferred to the University Archives, but supporting papers for this meeting mention the previous meeting held on 17 July 2012 and presumably there were earlier meetings for which minutes exist. Minutes of meetings held on and after 26 June 2019 have been transferred and preserved in digital format
The committee's terms of reference are to oversee the development and implementation of the University's Education Strategy; to formulate new policy and initiatives in response to student support imperatives including retention, skills and employability, and guidance and advice provision; to consider the education aspects of the Vice-Chancellor's Reviews [of Academic Schools] in order to initiative follow-up action; to oversee the National Student Survey and Birmingham Student Satisfaction Survey including developing action plans based on the results of the surveys and ensuring their implementation; to ensure that there is appropriate input into the Learning Spaces Strategy and its implementation; to monitor and recommend appropriate developments to learning resources, including library provision and e-learning; to have oversight of initiatives to provide learner development and employer engagement; to encourage the development of interdisciplinary initiatives in learning and teaching; to receive and consider reports from College Learning and Teaching Committees; to promote innovation in learning, teaching and assessment, including the allocation and monitoring of the University's spend of teaching quality enhancement funds, and the dissemination of good practice; to receive and consider reports from Programme Approval Review Committee and the Student Access and Progress Committee. The committee also received reports from the Learning Environment Group between 2012 and 2014
Membership consists of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), who chairs the meetings; Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education); Directors of Education for the Colleges; Vice-President (Education) Guild of Students; University Senior Tutor; Director of Academic Services; and a Strategic Planning nominee. The Directors of Library Services, Learning Spaces and CLAD; and the Careers Network also attended, together with a Policy Advisor.
The committee reports to Senate and liaises with the Quality Assurance Committee and the Academic Policy and Regulations Committee on general learning and teaching issues affecting the remit of these groups.
Minutes and supporting papers contain information about the Birmingham Student Satisfaction Survey (for non-final year undergraduates), and includes reports on its results; the Vice-Chancellor's Reviews of Academic Schools 2013 and 2014; the Guild of Students Student Voice Reports and action to be taken from them; and the National Student Survey and reports on the results, including information submitted by individual Academic Schools. There are also papers relating to the University Education Strategy 2013-2015 which replaced previous Learning and Teaching Strategies; the QAA report Education for Sustainable Development 2014; the Guild of Students report on Education Representation 2014; and plans for the Higher Education Review visit 2016
The committee also discusses curriculum review; module evaluation and Module Outside the Main Discipline (MOMD); iV[irtual] L[earning] E[nvironment]; the structure of the academic year; alternative modes of delivery; timetabling and teaching space policy; support and development for postgraduate teaching assistants; and event capture and the use of Panopto. It receives reports of the Academic Skills Centre in Library Services and discusses Staff Student Committee reports from the Colleges |