Timetabling utilise the Scientia Software package which is a specialist package designed to accommodate all timetabling needs and requirements. The software is able to allocate rooms and teaching activity based on a number of factors including - unit delivery, week pattern, staff availability, specialist room availability. Staff in timetabling are happy to explain the system in more detail to interested staff. Scientia produces a timetable which is printed off on a weekly basis and placed on the doors of the teaching rooms. The timetable shows the date, day of the week and the sessions the room is in use for.
More detailed statistics are available from Timetabling section.
Programme Directors are distributed with a copy of the Programme Timetable on an annual basis. For HSWE, the timetabling process usually begins in March of the preceding academic year. Data is collected from a variety of sources, including centralised University systems, and is then manipulated by the timetablers in order to produce a yearlong academic programme. A draft timetable is then produced and distributed to academic staff as appropriate. There begins a process of iteration, which allows staff the opportunity to amend the timetable before the first week of the semester.