Annual Monitoring, Review and Reporting

Processes for annual monitoring, review and reporting are in place across all credit-bearing provision and short courses and support systematic reflection and enhancement.

Annual Monitoring, Review and Reporting Policy 

Arrangements for 2024-25 Reporting

The following changes have been made to the templates for 2024-25:

School and programme templates 

  • The Student Support box has been updated to ask for responses on the effectiveness of Student Support Arrangements, now that the new model has been implemented.
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has been added as a new box for 24-25. Schools and programmes are asked to report on any activities or initiatives focused on integrating or adapting to GenAI in learning, teaching, and assessment.
  • A revised challenges box has been included, which features additional prompts and guidance for Schools to report on issues affecting their area.

The templates also have some minor formatting changes to align with accessibility standards.

When required, specific response boxes are included in templates to ensure that updates on key institutional issues are covered in reports. For 2024-25 reporting we have asked for specific reflections on the following institutional priorities:

Reporting Templates

Revised annual quality report templates for 2024-25:

Annual Programme Monitoring

Schools carry out annual programme monitoring, implementing a process which meets both local contexts and institution-wide principles and uses standard data.  Schools will decide on the optimum clustering of programmes. All credit bearing courses offered by a School are included. All programmes are monitored annually.      

Revised annual quality report deadline for 2024-25: to be determined by School/Deanery

School Annual Quality Report

Schools report annually to Senate Quality Assurance Committee on key themes and actions from in-year monitoring, review and reflection, providing institutional oversight of issues and good practice.

School Annual Quality Template (44.83 KB / DOCX)

Revised annual quality report deadline for 2024-25: Monday 1 September 2025

School reports will inform the University’s annual report to the Scottish Funding Council. 

A new institutional annual quality reporting process to the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) has been implemented from 2024/25, the Self-Evaluation Action Plan (SEAP). The SEAP replaces both the previous annual quality reporting process and the learning and quality aspects of the Outcome Agreement process.   

College Annual Quality Report

Colleges will submit annual quality reports to Senate Quality Assurance Committee.

College play a key role in supporting Schools’ annual monitoring, review and reporting processes.

Revised annual quality report deadline for 2024-25: Monday 24 November 2025

Supporting Data

How to use the data dashboards and where to find information to support annual quality processes.

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