CAP Forum - External Examiners' Forum

Tue 28 October 2014 13:15 - 14:15


Bring your lunch and join colleagues in discussing your external examiner experiences.
This forum is aimed primarily at academic staff with current, previous or planned experience as an External Examiner at another higher education institution. The forum will operate as a peer support network, providing opportunity for participants to discuss their experiences of External Examining elsewhere, including good practice that might be of interest to colleagues and issues that have proved difficult and how these were resolved. Topics and ideas for enhancement generated through the Forum will be disseminated by Moderator and, where appropriate, progressed through the Student Experience Committee.
The updated QAA Quality Code for Higher Education has as one of its expectations that ‘Higher education providers make scrupulous use of external examiners’.
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/B7.pdf
The Code elaborates:
‘External examining is valuable, not only for the institution which contracts the external examiner, but also for the examiner's home institution. In relation to maintaining standards and promoting quality enhancement, both the contracting and the home institutions benefit from the experience of staff who gain insights into practice across the sector and develop expertise in evaluating practice through their work as external examiners. Institutions facilitate the consistent dissemination of experience gained from external examining activities across the institution as appropriate.’
The External Examiners’ Forum at QMU aims to facilitate the sharing of good L&T practice which our academic staff observe while external examining, and also to help us in inducting and providing appropriate support to academics from other universities who are external examiners for QMU programmes.


More information: Dawn Martin or Roni Bamber
Register: CapAdmin