TEACHING AND LEARNING EXCELLENCE
Teaching and Learning Quality Process
Review
Teaching and Learning Quality Process Reviews (TLQPRs)
were introduced in the 1995-1998 triennium. The Reviews were refined in
the 1998-2001 triennium through a detailed evaluation of the first round.
The evaluation was conducted by an independent consultancy team from the
University of Twente of the Netherlands. The consultants concluded that
the Reviews were the right instrument at the right time, and provided
positive stimulus to the institutions to help them focus on teaching and
learning, and seek continuous improvement in the area.
Both the UGC and the institutions
considered that it was necessary to sustain the positive impact generated
by the first round of the Reviews, and therefore agreed that the second
round be conducted in the 2001-2004 triennium.
To prepare for the second exercise,
the UGC organised a Workshop in April 2000 to gauge institutions' views
for improvement. More than 100 institutional representatives from different
levels took part in the Workshop. The active participation not only strengthened
the sense of partnership between the institutions and the UGC; it also
ensured that the second round would benefit from the experience of the
earlier efforts. The feedback gathered formed a valuable part of the design
for the second round TLQPRs which the UGC launched in October 2001.
The thrust of both rounds of TLQPRs
has always been on the processes which assure teaching and learning quality,
not on the actual content of the curriculum or teaching and learning methods
per se.
The elaborate preparation work for
the second round TLQPRs undertaken by the UGC in the 1998-2001 triennium
encapsulated on the one hand, the importance attached by the UGC to quality
teaching and learning and, on the other, priority given by the institutions
on this major aspect of their activities.
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