• General progress
• Project timelines and milestones
• Work program priorities for 2011, and measures being taken

 General progress

There continues to be strong and widespread support within and beyond the University for the principles that underpin the new course structures. Although implementing such a large set of changes is a complex process, the work has gone according to plan, a collaborative spirit predominates, and we are meeting our targets. Nevertheless the Implementation Committee recognises that with less than a year to go before the new courses begin there can be no room for complacency.

Project timelines and milestones

The Timelines and Milestones document, available on the New courses 2012 web site, is continually checked and occasionally modified as the project proceeds. It is based on frequent consultation with relevant individuals and groups, and used as a frame of reference by the Implementation Committee and its working parties. It illustrates steady and timely progress.

Work program priorities for 2011, and measures being taken

Priorities for attention

1.    Intensifying and expanding internal and external communications
2.    Ensuring a good fit between classroom capacity and teaching needs.
3.    Ensuring that equity, access and social outreach plans are advanced through NC2012
4.    Adjusting budgetary arrangements to reflect different teaching costs
5.    Providing options and support to all students during transition.
6.    Safeguarding the cohort experience
7.    Establishing a “hub and spokes” model for student advising.
8.    Modifying some course administration arrangements.
9.    Ensuring that service learning opportunities are well regulated and recorded.
10.  Completing the alignment of postgraduate course structures with agreed principles
11.  Gaining government approval for key changes.

Priorities for attention and measures being taken

Media references

Winthrop Professor Ian Reid

Senior Academic Reviewer