VICE-CHANCELLOR’S REPORT TO COUNCIL 2022—2023
Board for Undergraduate Studies
AGILITY
Students as Partners in Learning
One UWI Disability Policy : The UWI Disabilities Policy was approved in May 2023. This single university-wide policy establishes a common blueprint for supporting students and staff with a disability. Towards Agility in Course and Programme Approval The concept paper Towards Agility in Course and Programme Approval , which proposes revisions to The UWI programme approval and revision process, will be tabled at the meetings of the respective academic boards in 2023. The concept paper is intended to make the process less onerous for course and programme developers, while maintaining attention to quality considerations. Student Retention and Success: BUS continues to monitor and review student performances. A one-year Consolidated Report for the academic year 2021/2022, presented courses with high pass and high failure rates (25% and higher) with the agreed new minimum class size of 16 and above across The UWI. It was also agreed that the minimum percentage grade to be applied for the review of courses which present high failure and pass grades including ‘A’ grades was 25%. Fail No Penalty (FNP)Designation It was agreed that effective August 2023, all campuses except the Open Campus, now Global Campus would operationalize the FNP amnesty to students placed on academic warning and/or required to withdraw after Semester1, 2022/2023. Multi-Campus Teaching and Learning Initiative (MCTLI) The Multi-Campus Teaching and Learning Initiative (MCTLI) was being piloted under the auspices of the Boards for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies and is a mechanism that aims at enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of the human resource utilisation across the University. The Multi-Campus Teaching and Learning Policy was approved and circulated to all Deans. Faculties were expected to indicate which courses could be delivered under the initiative.
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