Taught Provision Lifecycle Stage 1: Approval
Approval processes for taught provision across the University is designed to align with a number of internal and external principles:
Ensuring a High Quality Student Experience: All taught provision must be well designed, relevant, and attractive to the market, and effectively resourced to ensure a high quality academic experience for students from all backgrounds.
Coherent and Current Portfolio: The approval process is structured in a way that ensures both College and University leaders commit to the taught provision proposal prior to granular development, ensuring proposals align with the Aston 2030 Strategy to result in a coherent portfolio.
Proportionate Processes: Approval processes are risk-based and proportionate, and agile enough to ensure timely decisions and reaction to market need without compromising the integrity of the process.
Evidence Based: Proposals and decisions are based on data, research, and feedback from various internal and external sources including external advisors, employers, and students. Proposals are aligned to applicable national frameworks, subject benchmark statements, and apprenticeship standards.
Compliance with Regulatory Frameworks: The process ensures compliance with Office for Students conditions of registration and other relevant higher education requirements, including the marketing requirements of the Competition & Markets Authority.
These principles ensure new taught provision meet the academic, financial, and strategic needs of Aston and it's stakeholders, and lead to the development of definitive programme documentation, appropriate learning outcomes and innovative assessment methods.
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Taught Provision Lifecycle Stage 2: Modifications
Taught Provision Lifecycle Stage 3: Suspension and Discontinuation
To follow.
For all enquiries about the Programme Approval and Modification process, please contact your College Quality Officer or the Quality Team.