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Guidelines for Tutor Visits

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to offer guidelines to BSU and partner colleagues on the nature and purpose of visits by BSU lecturers to tutors in our partner institutions.

Bath Spa University has responsibility for ensuring that academic standards are maintained for all awards of the University.

It is an Academic Quality and Standards Committee (AQSC) requirement that each Bath Spa University module coordinator visits the relevant FEC module tutor each semester that the module is running. During this visit some time is to be found for discussion with students. This complies with the QAA Code of Practice for Collaborative Provision:

‘The Awarding Institution should ensure that effective measures exist to review the proficiency of staff engaged with collaborative programme … undertaking its own evaluation of the proficiency of the academic staff involved in the programme and provide development opportunities for such staff’.

Visits from BSU lecturers are a key part of the University’s procedure for “Reviewing the proficiency of staff” in partner colleges when centres are validated and when personnel change. In addition the Wessex Partnership provides a programme of staff development opportunities.

Guidelines

1. Visits should be scheduled at the beginning of the academic year and this schedule shared with the School, partner FEC and the School for Development and Participation.
2. Visits are not part of the process of appraisal or any other form of Human Resource Management related to the partner College. The contract of employment for tutors in a partner College is with that institution. Therefore any comments arising from the visit must be contained within the parameters of the Quality Assurance Agency: Code of Practice for Collaborative Provision.
3. A record of the visit should be completed by the BSU tutor (proforma available) and a copy sent to the School for Development and Participation (SDP). Individual tutors at partner institutions will be sent a copy of the visit report by the visiting tutor.