HE Regulatory Information
Sections
Wider Information Set
o Introduction
o Information on institutional context
o Information about aspects of courses and awards
o Information on the quality and standards of programmes
Key Information Sets
HE Financial Information-(Coming soon)
Wider Information Set (WIS)
Introduction
HEFCE require Higher Education Providers to make available a range of information to the general
public about HE provision. This section signposts the location of key documents and advises
stakeholders who are not current students or staff members about accessing materials which are
not publically available through the website.
Information on the institutional Context
College Mission
statement
HE Strategic Statement
and HE Strategy
Statement of quality
assurance policies and
processes
The College Mission statement is available here.
The College HE Strategy is set out in this document.
The College assures the quality of all HE programmes through the
implementation of College policy and procedure/or the policy and
procedure of partner Universities as appropriate.
Franchise provision
Academic regulations which govern the delivery of awards the College
delivers on behalf of partner institutions can be found here:
University of Salford
University of Bolton
Direct funded provision
Quality assurance documentation and associated policy and procedural
guidance is held on the College corporate manual.
Learning and Teaching
strategy
The College Teaching and Learning Strategy is available here. All directly
funded and franchised provision is delivered with reference to this
document.
Franchised provision is also subject to the Teaching and Learning
Strategies of partner Universities:
University of Salford
University of Bolton
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Partnership
information
The College delivers programmes through franchise arrangements with
two HEIs:
University of Salford
University of Bolton
The programmes that are delivered with each partner, and the benefits
for students are outlined in the College HE Guide.
Employability
Statement
The College also offers programmes awarded by Edexcel (HNC , HND and
Higher Apprenticeship provision. Information about Edexcel awards is
available here.
Programme design
All programmes offered by the College are mapped to labour market
priorities in Greater Manchester. All programmes are vocationally based
and programmes include, wherever possible units or modules with a
specific focus on:
Employability
Personal Professional Development
Industry linked vocational practices.
All foundation degrees have compulsory work based learning aspects.
Careers and guidance services
All HE Students are able to access independent College careers guidance
at our centres. Students studying on programmes delivered through
franchise are also able to access careers provision at Partner Universities.
Information about aspects of courses and awards
Course descriptions
Programme
specifications
Course descriptions are set out in the College HE Guide.
University of Bolton franchise provision programme specifications are
available here.
Results of internal
surveys
Links with
employers
The College provides detailed programme information for University of
Salford and HNC/D programmes on the HE section of the website
Survey outcomes are available to HE staff and students on the College
intranet.
The College delivers a number of programmes which have a placement
aspect.
Some HE students are observed in their own work based setting. For these
programmes, having appropriate work or voluntary activity in place at the
beginning of the course is a condition of entry. This is detailed in the entry
requirements for our programmes.
On some programmes, students are required to undertake a work
placement or work based activity during the course. These placements or
activities are negotiated by the College in partnership with the learner. In
instances where, for reasons beyond the learner or Colleges control,
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external opportunities cannot be identified or fall through, alternative
College based opportunities are found.
Partnerships by
programme
The College is committed to providing relevant work related opportunities to
all students. This can include:
Guest lectures from industry specialists and trips and visits.
Assessment briefs which focus on simulated work based scenarios.
Opportunities to engage in personal and professional development
planning.
Opportunities to develop skills required for self-employment/
freelancing as appropriate.
The development of transferable skills- e.g. communication,
numeracy and ICT.
Guidance about content on individual programmes is available here .
The College offers programmes in partnership with three different awarding
bodies (see partnership information above).
The awarding body information is detailed in the College HE guide and
partner providers are named in each course description.
Information on the quality and standards of programmes
Programme
Approval,
Monitoring and
Review procedures
External Examining
Procedures
Policies for student
complaints, appeals
and representations
This documentation is available internally. It is detailed on the College
intranet and/or in student handbooks.
Those external to the organisation can request this information by
contacting Wendy Smith, Director of HE by [email protected]. Please detail the reason for the request in
the email.
Key Information Sets (KIS)
Key information Sets are available for eligible courses are available on course description available
here. Please note that not all courses are eligible for KIS- e.g. courses with a credit value of 120
credits or less such as HNC and PGDE/PDE.
For further guidance about Key Information Sets and the opportunity to compare data provided by
other institutions visit the Unistats website.
HE Financial Information
We are currently developing this section of the website, content will be updated by January 2015.