Dr. Patrick Prendergast:

Trinity College takes the quality of what it offers in its courses extremely seriously. Course reviews are mandatory in Trinity College. Student questionnaires are not mandatory but if they are not used, another method to assess students' feelings about the course must be used, such as focus groups. We have made it mandatory, although it was not done specifically in response to that document; it was an ongoing process within the college anyway to make student assessment of courses mandatory. That is now the case in the entire college. That information is fed back to the lecturers and to those to whom the lecturers report to ensure action is taken to continually improve the quality of courses. All our courses are subject to external examiner annual reviews by experts from abroad to monitor course quality and ensure they reach the standard expected and the desired learning outcomes that have been set and that the students have every right to expect. There is a lot going on.