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Key Information Sets (KIS)- learning and teaching activity (contact
hours)- assessment activity
UNIVERSITY QUALITY OFFICE
• Providing information about higher education
QAA Quality Code: Part C
The QAA has published a new Quality Code for UK HE and this has a section which lists the information Universities must make public, for example on their websites. It includes things like the Learning and Teaching Strategy and Programme Specifications.
It also includes requirements for providing information for prospective students. HEFCE was asked to establish what information prospective students wanted.
Introduction
Understanding the information needs of users of public information about higher education
(published by HEFCE in August 2010) The HEFCE research aimed to find out:
• what information students, parents and other interested parties wanted and needed,
• what the best modes would be to deliver this information,
• who should provide the information, and
• how the information would support potential students’ informed choice of what and where to study.
Providing information about higher education
The results were published last summer:
Outcomes of consultation and next steps(HEFCE/UUK/GuildHE June 2011)
and recommended:
• the introduction of Key Information Sets (KIS) at course level aimed at prospective students
• a wider information set, parts of which are aimed at different audiences (WIS)
the KIS and the WIS
Providing information about higher education
The KIS will contain information for each POS on:
• NSS scores
• Employment and salaries
• Costs – fees, bursaries, accommodation
• Learning and teaching activity
• Assessment activity
For all undergraduate programmes and all teaching training programmes
A KIS will probably look like this:
Key Information Set
Key Information Set
HESA is collecting the data and we have no choice about what we provide or how we provide it.
Our priority is to collect the information about learning and teaching activity and assessment activity.
We will do this by using the module information we already have in the AIS...............
Key Information Set
Key Information Set
This is the only part of the KIS we need to do anything about.
The rest will provided by HESA or centrally by the University
Accuracy – you tell us that the AIS is not always right, Quality Office’s priority is to support you in making sure the right information is recorded in the 11/12 session.
Module catalogue – we will base contact hours on the existing Timetable information and use Assessment Elements to determine the assessment methods.
Head start - if your department uses Attendance Monitoring in AIS and uses AIS to calculate module marks then you have a head start – your data should already be right.
Key Information Set
AIS – attendance elementsThis is how we will collect information about learning & teaching activity
Don’t worry, we’ll provide guidance on this
Any missing activity or ones which are not centrally timetabled must be entered manually – there will be instructions on how to do this.
AIS – attendance elements
AIS – assessment elementsThis is how we will collect information about assessment activity
Don’t worry, we’ll provide guidance on this
...or you might use a screen which looks like this
...don’t worry, it all ends up in the same place
AIS – assessment elements
Key Information Set - timelineDate Action June 2011 Outcomes paper published
end of September 2011 Technical guidance published by HEFCE
December 2011 Updates to HESA technical documentation
February 2012 Validation kit released
March 2012 Submission system open for KISs to be published in September 2012: Institutions submit their data to HEFCE
July 2012 HEFCE merges data submitted by institutions with 2012 NSS and DLHE data
August 2012 Institutions quality check and sign off their final KISs
September 2012 KISs available for institutions to upload
Widgets go live
October 2012 System re-opens for updates
We want you to get your module data in during Jan and Feb
We can keep checking and updating right up until now
Who can help?
• University Quality Officers• Nichola Cooper, [email protected], 6934 (HUBS, FoS)• Stuart Gilkes, [email protected], 6715 (FHSC, FoE)• Jane Iddon, [email protected], 6598 (FASS)
General queries – Lynne Braham, [email protected], 6576
• Quality Office website- www.hull.ac.uk/quality
• Guidance documents• Training material• FAQs
More information• Details about the Process
- from the HESA website• Coverage• Fields• Supporting documentation
• Background – why we’re doing it– from the HEFCE website
• Research• Consultation paper• Outcomes of consultation
