Expertise of the teaching staff concerns ensuring that staff teaching the subject have appropriate subject matter and teaching expertise. It is recognised that there may be variation among Faculties in how they satisfy themselves that staff are properly equipped to teach a subject. Each Faculty's scheme for subject review is based on these six core areas, and utilises the data sources outlined above. A resource of common issues to be investigated in each core area, appropriate data sources and a resource bank of questions relating to core areas is available at the teaching evaluation web-site. Collection of data from the various data sources requires considerable effort and is normally undertaken every five years as part of an overall review process.
Subject evaluations feed into a schedule of departmental, faculty or course reviews.
They also run in conjunction with accreditation and other external professional reviews. Following a subject evaluation, improvements suggested in the review are monitored and reported the following year. Education Committee is the approval body for faculty review schemes and has the responsibility for ensuring implementation of the policy.