Programme Directors
Designed to provide you with core knowledge about the programme leader roles and other academic leadership roles that are responsible for delivering programmes.
Core aspects of programme leadership
Role definition
Role definitions have been created for Programme Director and Major/Specialisation Leader. These are available on the staff intranet along with FAQs about these roles.
Programme leadership roles and FAQS (University staff only)
Programme data
Tracking the performance of your programme will help you to identify areas for improvement. The Planning & Information Office provides curated strategic information about many areas of business through the Enterprise Insights Portal (EIP). Information on accessing EIP is available on the staff intranet.
Enterprise Insights Portal (University staff only)
The following link is to a resource available to staff only.
Setting programme objectives
Being clear what you are aiming for with the programme and how this can be measured will help you identify what to prioritise. It provides you with a focus on what should be done in the coming year.
The following link is to a resource available to staff only.
Decision-making framework
The Decision-making Framework is a tool that will be available in 2022. It details academic decision-making across the phases of the student journey and clearly shows decision-making rights at faculty/LSRI/Service Division, University and external body level.
Academic leadership
The landscape of academic leadership is not the same in every faculty. There are some roles that have been defined across the University, but other academic leaders will also exist based on faculty or programme needs.
For those roles common across all faculties, detailed role definitions are available on the staff intranet to clarify responsibilities at each level of academic leadership.
Academic leadership roles staff intranet (University staff only)
A summary of the responsibilities of academic leadership roles in key areas such as scope, course design, student support, and assessment is available as an e-module and can be downloaded and printed for quick reference.
Academic leadership e-module (University staff only)
The following link is to a resource available to staff only.
Academic Leadership Roles and Responsibilities: A printable summary for University staff. (PDF 161.7 KB)
To note:
- Academic Head and Associate Dean/Director are separate positions.
- Academic Head includes Head of Department/Section and Head of School.
- Associate Dean/Director refers to the core Associate Dean roles that exist in each faculty and Large Scale Research Institute: Academic, Learning & Teaching, Postgraduate Research, and Research.
- Programme Director, Major/Specialisation Leader, Course Director and Course Coordinator are roles that an academic is asked to undertake. A person can hold more than one of these roles.
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