Professor Brian MacCraith:

Like our colleagues, we take the quality of what we offer to our students very seriously. There are full institutional reviews by an international body every few years, faculty reviews and departmental or school reviews, along with an annual programme review for every degree programme, and in the last year every module has been surveyed for every student taking it and we get full feedback and act upon it. It is absolutely taken seriously and fed back into the system so we can take account of it. We also have a rolling programme of teaching quality reviews, with peer to peer assessment of teaching quality. A quality culture exists across the organisation and is fully embraced at every level right up to senior management. Every external body that comes in to review a unit or programme meets me and I give feedback and it then goes to executive for action. Quality is essential and embraced fully by the university.