Teaching and Learning Committee

Monday 19 February (planning meeting)      
Monday 22 April      
Monday 24 June      
Monday 5 August (special)      
Monday 2 September      
Monday 14 October

Time: 10am to 12pm
Venue: Chancellery boardroom

On the recommendation of the chair, the committee has the power to approve the co-option of members on the basis of their skills and faculty representation.

The committee provides academic oversight for teaching and learning at UTS. The committee has responsibility for considering the following matters:

1. teaching and learning policies and guidelines, including developing, benchmarking, monitoring and reviewing teaching and learning policies and their effectiveness and monitoring the operation of the university’s teaching and learning governance instruments
2. teaching and learning strategy, including making recommendations on strategic priorities for teaching and learning; and monitoring and reporting on the achievement of strategic objectives against agreed targets
3. teaching and learning quality and performance, including:
   1. providing oversight of the availability of professional learning that supports development of scholarship of learning and teaching and contributes to the university’s teaching and learning culture
   2. encouraging excellence in teaching and learning through innovation and improvement, taking into account national and international benchmarks and standards, use of emerging technologies and new approaches to teaching and learning
   3. developing, monitoring and reviewing the qualitative and quantitative measures of evaluating performance and quality assurance in teaching and learning, and
   4. recommending actions to improve teaching and learning performance and quality
4. activities, strategies, policy and projects focused on enhancement of student experience and success including recognition of and support for student diversity, study modes, and learning needs
5. teaching and learning integrity, including promoting, preserving and upholding academic integrity by providing advice on training, education and prevention; analysing misconduct data to improve practices; and advice on the effectiveness of the supporting UTS governance instruments
6. teaching and learning risk management including identification, assessment and monitoring of risks to the teaching and learning activities, and reporting on these risks and the effectiveness of relevant mitigations.

For UTS subjects, courses and student cohorts, TLC will:

1. receive regular reports on subject, course and cohort performance
2. approve and monitor planned actions proposed by faculties to improve courses and subjects performing unsatisfactorily, and actions by faculties or support units to improve academic support for particular student cohorts
3. provide commendations on strongly performing courses and subjects
4. identify and provide advice on recommended practice and/or unsatisfactory course or subject performance issues that may warrant consideration across more than one faculty
5. monitor relevant external articulation arrangements that may be impacted by, or impact upon, course and subject performance
6. make recommendations on proposed changes to metrics, weightings and targets to be used in the preparation of performance reports to support the university’s strategies for learning and teaching, and
7. commission or consider other reports and analysis to complement regular performance reports.

TLC will make recommendations to Academic Board or the applicable decision-making authority, and operate in accordance with UTS Rules, Delegations and policies.

The length of committee membership terms will be two years for staff and one year for students, consistent with the term of membership for elected members of Academic Board, including for co-opted members.

Minimum of six scheduled meetings per year.

The quorum shall be one-half of the current members of the committee. If one-half is not a whole number, the next higher whole number shall be used.

Vacant positions on the committee do not count toward the total membership of which one-half is required to reach a quorum.