The final stages of the validation of the eCommunications Public Sector FdA

The completion of the first module for this new degree
Julie and I completed the content for Approaches to Communications on the 16th of November. Julie did most of the work here. I checked it and made a few suggestions. We have also altered some of the other content in the other modules for semester one. This means that the SHU staff who are validating our new degree can now go online and review the content of one whole module. They can also see the Assessment Criteria Grid in the resources section and the outlines of the other modules which can be found in the Homepage of Semester 1. Arrangements were put in place for all the SHU staff to be able to access this online content from the 18th of November.

SHU Initial Comments on the eCommunications Public Sector FdA
On the 18th of November I was sent the initial comments from SHU on our proposals for this new degree. I was asked to make a written response to this document which I have now competed and returned.
I decided to address each of the initial comments by firstly looking though the submission document to see how far or fully the issue was addressed there. Often I was able to just copy and paste some of the relevant sections into my reply and merely add a few points of clarification.
Other comments, however, took longer to address and I had to compose a response. A few comments dealt with very minor issues such as the odd typo, and example of a piece of text that hadn’t been typed into the final SHU document and requests for clarification. Overall I felt that the comments revealed a favourable reading of our submission and there were no major issues and nothing that I felt I couldn’t address.
The whole process took the best part of an afternoon. From email exchanges this week it now seems that most of the validation will take place virtually and although it will involve a final validation meeting, this meeting will only involve SHU staff, not TSC staff and we will not be required to present our online content or to answer further questions.