NTU Quality Handbook
Find out about the Quality Handbook — the guide that governs learning and teaching regulations at Nottingham Trent University.
What is the Quality Handbook?
The Quality Handbook provides the framework that governs learning and teaching at Nottingham Trent University.
It serves as a source of information for both staff and students and covers several policies and guidance, which state the processes and procedures that NTU follows when delivering education.
The provisions of the Quality Handbook also apply to students studying on any of our courses at partner institutions.
Find the most recent in-year changes to the NTU Quality Handbook.
NTU Quality Handbook
The Quality Handbook is organised around NTU's three academic framework pillars: Course Design and Approval, Course Delivery, and Course Review and Re-approval. Together these pillars reflect the key stages of the academic lifecycle, from the development and approval of courses, through their delivery to students, to the ongoing evaluation and enhancement of course quality and standards.
Sections:
- 1: Academic Quality Governance - Requirements
- 3: Undergraduate awards - Requirements
- 4: Postgraduate taught and research awards - Requirements
- 5: Course Design and Approval - Requirements
- 10: Academic Partnerships - Approval
- 10A: Academic Partnerships - Delivery
- 10B: Academic Partnerships - Review
- 10C: Micro-credentials - Requirements
- 10D: Placements - Requirements
- 10E: Apprenticeships - Requirements
- 11: Research degrees - Requirements
- 12: Course design Requirements
- 13: Admissions - Requirements
- 16: Taught course awards and registration periods - Requirements
Supplements:
- 3A: Guidance for foundation degrees
- 3B: Guidance on Professional Certificates and Professional Diplomas
- 3C: Course titling guidance
- 5B: Course Design and Approval Implementation model
- 5C: School Leadership Course Approval checklist
- 5D: Course Design and Approval: Considering External Input in Course Design
- 5E: Appointing external specialists for academic approval
- 5F: Curriculum map exemplar
- 5G: Teach-out arrangements
- 5H: Requirements for international student exchanges
- 5I: Requirements for the approval and quality management of different categories of course
- 5J: Assessment regulations when there are PSRB constraints
- 5K: Course Approval and Course Operational Change Deadlines
- 5L: Semester Map Template (Word doc)
- PS4: Requirements for initiation and cessation of progression arrangements between Kaplan International Colleges and Nottingham Trent University (NTU)
- AP2: Apprenticeships Subcontracting requirements
- AP4: End Point Assessment Fair Access Policy
- AP5: End Point Assessment Conflict of Interest policy
- 12A: Guidance on Course Design Requirements
- 12B: Requirements for the use of digital Technologies in learning, teaching, and assessment
- 12C: Principles for High-Quality On-Line Learning
- 12D: Applications to the University’s Course Design Exceptions Register
- 13A: Admissions: taught course guidance
- 13B: Application Process for Further Education Courses
- 15C: Requirements for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and credit transfer
Sections:
- Section 1 - Academic Quality Governance - Requirements
- 6: Course Review and Re-approval Policy
- 7: Periodic Review - Requirements
- 9: External examining - Requirements
- 10B: Academic Partnerships - Requirements
- 17B: Academic Appeals Process - Requirements
- 17C: Academic Integrity Policy - Requirements
- 17D: Procedure for Investigating Alleged Research Misconduct - Requirements
- 17E: Student Complaints Procedure - Requirements
- 17F: Research Degrees Complaints and Appeals Procedures - Requirements
Supplements:
- Supplement 1C - University Research Degrees Progression Boards Requirements
- 2A: Student Route Academic Engagement Monitoring
- 6B: Course Review Plan (template for courses)
- 6C: Guidance for Course Monitoring and Reporting
- 7A: Periodic Review: School Review Operational Guidance
- 7B Periodic Review - Guidance for Panel Members
Sections:
- Section 2 - Enabling Student Development and Achievement through Governance - Requirements
- 8: Student representation and student voice - Requirements
- 10B: Academic Partnerships - Review
- 14 - Learning, Teaching and Professional Development
- 15: Assessment - Requirements
- 16A: Common Assessment Regulations for Bachelor's and Integrated Master's Degrees - Requirements
- 16B: Common Assessment Regulations for Foundation Degrees - Requirements
- 16C: Common Assessment Regulations for Taught Postgraduate Degrees - Requirements
- 16E: Common Assessment Regulations for Higher National awards - Requirements
- 17A: Consideration of Personal Circumstances policy - Requirements
Supplements:
- 1B: Course committee requirements
- Supplement 2A - Student Route Academic Engagement Monitoring
- Supplement 2B - Withdrawal from Study
- Supplement 2D - Apprentice Attendance policy
- 3A: Guidance for foundation degrees
- 8A: Joint Statement on Course and School representation
- 8B: School Forums: Terms of reference
- 8C: Doctoral Community Forum: terms of reference
- PL1: Guidance on the certification of placements
- AP1: Apprenticeships work-based learning guidance
- AP3: Integrated End Point Assessment Policy
- 15A: Guidance on Assessment
- 15B: Grade based marking descriptors
- 15D: Assessment Schedule and Feedback Plan Exemplar - Terms
- QHS 15D: Assessment Schedule and Feedback Plan Exemplar - Semesters Undergraduate
- 15E: Board of Examiners Guidance
- 15F: Board of Examiners Guidance
- 15G: Requirements for the use of Turnitin
- 15H: Personal Exam Plans
- 16A Codicil: Common Assessment Regulations for Integrated Foundation Year courses
- CAR1: Common Assessment Regulations: Student Route Requirements
Get in touch
For queries about the Quality Handbook, please contact us by email at eqp.enquiries@ntu.ac.uk.
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