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Full Text from Consultation Document
17. Review of the PGT Portfolio
17.1 The Strategic Plan has it as a key ambition that we increase the proportion of postgraduate students to 20% of our student body by 2013/14. Reviewing all our postgraduate taught programmes is integral to achieving this aim. We need to improve our current portfolio and to do this we need to identify those programmes that are successful and identify new programmes that will enhance our provision.
17.2 We can treat Master’s programmes as dividing into functional programmes, i.e. programmes that serve some functional purpose such as preparing students for a career or training them in a practical skill, and research programmes, designed to introduce the student to an areas of knowledge and/or research skills. The former can be judged primarily in terms of their recruitment figures; the latter can be judged either in terms of recruitment figures or in terms of their track record as a route into PGR study. Programmes that do not meet one of these two requirements are not contributing to the fulfilment of the key objectives of the Strategic Plan and are costly in staff time.
17.3 In developing Masters programmes, as noted above, on-line provision should be considered. Opportunities are also available for connecting CPD with Masters provision (and of course CPD provision may be on-line as well). Indeed departments are encouraged to look at ways of building up Masters take-up through CPD, by positively responding to local (and indeed not so local) educational and training requirements.
17.3 Following from this, it is proposed that all PGT programmes be reviewed in the light of the following expectations:
(i) programmes should recruit sufficient numbers to cover the cost of delivering the programme;
or
(ii) they should over the past five years have regularly and consistently resulted in the recruitment of postgraduate research students registered at the University.
17.4 It is proposed that programmes that cannot meet at least one of these two requirements should be withdrawn and replaced by new programmes that seem more likely to succeed, on the basis of market information and developments in the relevant disciplines.
LGoS believes:
- Although it is regrettable to see once again that the University is placing finances above that other priorities, this is where the entire sector is going
- Due to the vagaries of the intellectual environment worldwide, this proposal may well see many courses being cut that have been in existence at the University of Liverpool for many years.
- It would be best for all involved if the University were to produce a list of all courses that would be cut under these conditions as soon as possible. This is also important for prospective students.
- Because of the typically smaller sizes of PGT cohorts, it is reasonable for us to expect that all PGT modules and programmes should consult with every participant as part of this review.
- This review is forward looking. As such, consultation on PGT programmes should, where possible, include final year undergraduates.
What is the purpose of a Masters programme? Is there anything else you would like to add about this proposals? E-Mail: Edward.Moloney@liv.ac.uk
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