About LATEU
(LATEU staff: L-R: Julie Reeves, Paul Riddy, Mary Morrison,
Shelley Parr, Ian Giles, Adam Warren, Kathy Hooper,
Julie Balcombe, Janet Pugh, Fiona Grindey)
The purpose of the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (LATEU) is to support the Organisational Development of the University, its constituent Academic Schools and Professional Services to achieve Institutional Excellence in Academic Practice.
The delivery of this will be supported through THREE main strands of activity:
- Institutional-level Quality Monitoring (Results) and Quality Assurance (Quality Processes and the Southampton Curriculum Framework)
- Quality Enhancement through Professional Development
- Quality Enhancement through Institutional-level support for Curriculum Innovation
Background
The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (LATEU) was established in August 2006 to promote the Quality agenda across the University. Staff from the Educational Development Service (within Student Services) and the Centre for Learning and Teaching (that was part of the School of Education) joined forces to become the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit.
As the University has adopted the definition of Quality as being that of transformation (change) LATEU is a key element in supporting change and the various change agents employed at all levels in the University.
Quality Assurance: is an core component of our work, ensuring alignment with national and professional standards and benchmarks.
Quality Enhancement: shifts the focus away from simply meeting minimum standards within limited areas. The QAA definition of Quality Enhancement, ‘taking deliberate steps to bring about continuous improvement in the effectiveness of the learning experience of students’, has the same basis as our definition of Quality. The agreed definition for institutional audit stipulates that these steps must be at the 'institutional level' and be evidenced by strategic interventions.
The Periodic Programme Review and the LTERAP are the principal ways in which the University and its academic Schools assures and enhances the standards and quality of its education provision. These are both based on reflection and evaluation of a wide range of management information linked to clear future actions.
"Learning from the past and each other to inform future actions"
The process is described as a Quality Spiral.
Under the leadership of Dr Ian Giles, University Director of Education (Quality and the Learning Environment), LATEU will promote the continual enhancement of the education provision within a clear quality framework across the University.
By positioning the unit within the University with a direct link to the PVC (Education), it is in a unique position to support and promote institutional level quality enhancement and delivery of the University Learning and Teaching Enhancement Strategy.
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