Monitoring and Review

Annual Monitoring and Review (AMR) has now changed to Continuous Programme Review (CPR), effective from September 2026. Any final AMR action plans for 2025/26 are to be completed and submitted by Friday 11th September 2026. Please continue to liaise with your Academic Unit/Faculty contacts if you are still due to submit this.

Continuous Programme Review (CPR) is a year-round process carried out by Boards of Studies (BoS), according to an institutional schedule of business for all taught programmes. This takes place in accordance with the BoS terms of reference and BoS schedule.

The purpose of CPR is to support the oversight of taught programmes through regular meetings of BoS and helps to ensure the Office for Students' (OfS) B conditions continue to be met. To support the CPR process, existing data dashboards are provided centrally in the Please note that further data dashboards are in development to support the business of CPR at BoS and will be communicated via the appropriate channels when available.

The BoS CPR action log is completed at a BoS level and is considered by each  Faculty Education Committee (FEC) when issues or effective practice arise, who then complete their own FEC CPR action log that provides the opportunity for consideration at Taught Programmes Sub-Committee (TPSC) and University Education Committee (UEC) if appropriate.

The CPR Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) provides more information on how this escalation process works in practice.

Please find below the series of templates and documentation that supports the delivery of the CPR process. The reworked ‘Continuous Programme Review’ policy sets out the suggested approach to CPR in Phase 1 (September 2026). A fully updated and extended policy and process will be developed over the course of AY26/27, ready for Phase 2 (AY27/28).

Key Documentation:

• CPR Policy
• BoS CPR action log (template)
• FEC CPR action log (template)
• TPSC CPR action log
• UEC CPR action log
• CPR SOP

The Learning and Teaching Review policy was suspended by Taught Programme Sub-Committee of University Education Committee with effect from the 2024-25 academic year.

This decision reflects the fact that the Education Strategy Leading Edge workstream will lead to the comprehensive staged renewal of our programmes in line with a new curriculum framework. A revised approach to periodic review is under development, which will be introduced following this significant programme of work.

Subject areas which require a periodic review or validation event as part of their Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body accreditation should in the first instance contact education.policy.governance@newcastle.ac.uk to discuss their requirements.

As a Higher Education Provider operating in England, the University is subject to a range of national regulatory requirements. These include requirements that relate to the academic quality and standards of our educational provision. The following briefing notes provide a summary for members of the University of these requirements, and how the University ensures that it meets these requirements.

• The revised UK Quality Code and its implications
• The implications of consumer protection law for changes to degree programmes

The University has links with a wide range of Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs) which provide valuable external review of the quality of our provision. Responsibility for detailed engagement with PSRBS resides with individual academic units. 

A number of University programmes are accredited by Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs) the following documents have been developed to outline University policy in relation to the links these reviews have with the University's internal quality assurance procedures.

• Policy and Process for Monitoring PSRB Activity
• Position Statement on the Integration of Internal and External Quality Assurance Processes

The Educational Governance and Policy Service hold a Register of Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies, which is shared with Taught Programmes Sub-Committee every academic year. For further information contact education.governance.policy@ncl.ac.uk

The Quality Assurance and Enhancement Framework for Research Degree Programmes provides Schools and Institutes with an opportunity to reflect on their current practice in relation to the provision of research degrees, the research learning opportunities and research learning experiences necessary to enable students to achieve: Quality Assurance and Enhancement Framework for Research Degree Programmes.

Information about, and the framework for the quality assurance and enhancement framework for research degree programmes can be found on the internal Student Progress webpages.

The Student Progress Service has very extensive support on their Postgraduate Research Student Administration page covering, amongst other areas: