{"id":536,"date":"2011-11-15T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/?p=536"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T10:34:43","slug":"rector%e2%80%99s-away-day-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/2011\/11\/15\/rector%e2%80%99s-away-day-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rector\u2019s Away Day outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Management Board reviewed the outcomes of the Away Day, held on 21 October 2011, which focused on the Student Experience and covered many of its aspects: undergraduate and postgraduate, academic and pastoral etc.\u00a0 While a number of action points emerged from the Away Day, the two most significant and pressing related to the undergraduate experience and in particular: the quality and timeliness of assessment and feedback; and the quality, price and distance from College of student accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>It was agreed that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Principals should require their Heads of      Department to provide action plans outlining measures already in place and      measures that they would be introducing during the current academic year      to improve the undergraduate student experience.\u00a0 These plans would      be collated by the Faculties and presented at the Management Board\u2019s      December meeting. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chief Financial Officer and Director of Commercial      Services should together produce a plan for the refurbishment (where      appropriate and necessary) of existing accommodation and the development      of new accommodation \u2013 with recommendations for suitable social amenities      at or close to this accommodation, as well as suitable catering facilities      at the South Kensington Campus. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculties and Departments should also provide action      plans for improving both the undergraduate and postgraduate student      experience, including identifying any necessary investment, as part of the      Planning Round in Spring 2012.\u00a0 This would enable the Management      Board to form a strategic view of requirements, whether capital (perhaps      for accommodation) or otherwise (perhaps for assessment and feedback), for      improving the student experience at the College. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Management Board reviewed the outcomes of the Away Day, held on 21 October 2011, which focused on the Student Experience and covered many of its aspects: undergraduate and postgraduate, academic and pastoral etc.\u00a0 While a number of action points emerged from the Away Day, the two most significant and pressing related to the undergraduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}