This is the latest of our weekly newsletters for staff about the work underway to ensure the continuity of Teaching, Learning and Assessment for our students during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Today we are covering: 

• Graduation Benchmark for Finalists 20/21
• Marks and Exam Board Briefing session
• Pre-sessional English at Warwick
• Listening@Warwick: A Podcast about Teaching during COVID-19
• Window on Teaching Roundtable: Remote Laboratory and Practical Teaching During a Pandemic
• Cross-faculty Centre for Global Jewish Studies Proposal

Last year, guidance was provided on how the graduation benchmark would be applied to intermediate year students in 2019/20 who were due to graduate this year. This has now been updated and is available in the Marks Management Manual. Principles and the approach to the calculation of the graduation benchmark remain the same, while further clarification has been provided on how this applies to students who may have taken temporary withdrawal during 2019/20, deferred exams to 20/21 or who may be resitting without residence, as well as to students who were on study abroad or a year in industry in 2019/20.
 

A reminder that there will be a Marks and Exam Board Briefing session for Undergraduate Taught provision on 25 May 2021, 11am-12.30pm. The session will be hosted by colleagues from Education Policy and Quality (EPQ) and Student Administrative Services (SAS) and aims to support departmental awareness and understanding of operational process and policy for Marks Management and Exam Board Procedures. This session will focus on the process and policies for undergraduate provision.  

If you wish to attend and have not already put your name down, please let the organisers know via Quality@warwick.ac.uk
 

Applications for Warwick’s Pre-sessional English Programmes are now open for this Summer.  

Pre-Sessional English programmes have been running at the University for over 20 years, helping international students to meet the English language requirements for their main degree programmes. Our portfolio of Warwick Pre-Sessional Programmes are academic English language and literacy skills courses which prepare undergraduate and postgraduate students linguistically and culturally for their future degree studies. Our courses are designed for students whose first language is not English and who have an offer to study for a degree at the University of Warwick, typically containing specific English language requirements. The programmes focus on the specific academic literacies that students will need so that they can effectively follow and fully engage with their main degree discipline. We currently offer several Pre-Sessional English language courses and students should choose the course most appropriate to their language needs (and main degree course). 

Find out more information on the Pre-Sessional English Toolkit webpage
 

Listening@Warwick are looking for Social Science colleagues to chat about how teaching has been for them over the last year for a new podcast series. A parallel project will record student conversations, and we will bring all participants together to listen, learn, and discuss at an event later in July.  

Join the conversation and register your interest
 

You are invited to join colleagues from the STEM community at Warwick; from Chemistry, Physics, the School of Engineering, and the School of Life Sciences; who will share and reflect on their experiences of remote laboratory and practical teaching during the pandemic. 

Join colleagues in the Teaching Café on Wednesday 26 May, 1pm-2pm
 

We’re looking for colleagues to get involved in developing a proposal for a new cross-faculty Centre for Global Jewish Studies. Open to academic and professional services staff, the Centre will promote transdisciplinary discussion of global Jewish cultures, histories, and literatures. 

Find out more and get involved