Quality and Productivity

Building Continuous Improvement Strategies for Academic Curricula

Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to curriculum improvement.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Building Continuous Improvement Strategies for Academic Curricula
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

A quality system for curriculum improvement that exists only for the auditor produces paperwork, not quality. Improvement in the wider quality and productivity management agenda that is not measured tends to be reversed quietly. This programme builds this strand of quality and productivity management from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in curriculum improvement before they become incidents. Where this area of quality and productivity management is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of this part of quality and productivity management is examined, not just described. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for curriculum improvement. What blocks progress on this area of quality and productivity management is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The programme closes with an action plan for this part of quality and productivity management that each participant writes for their own organisation.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Sustain gains achieved in curriculum improvement through control and review.

  • Design control plans for curriculum improvement that detect deviation early.

  • Benchmark curriculum improvement against comparable operations honestly.

  • Select indicators that show whether curriculum improvement is improving, and reject those that only look useful.

  • Plan the handover of curriculum improvement so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.

  • Test the organisation's response to curriculum improvement under conditions that are less than ideal.

  • Link improvement in curriculum improvement to a financial outcome leadership recognises.

Who Should Attend

  • Health, safety and environmental staff whose systems integrate with curriculum improvement.

  • Training officers building problem-solving capability in curriculum improvement.

  • Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on curriculum improvement.

  • Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around curriculum improvement.

  • Continuous improvement specialists working on curriculum improvement.

  • Internal auditors examining curriculum improvement.

Course Modules

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01

Curriculum improvement: variation, capability and control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Mapping curriculum improvement as it is done, not as it is written

  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of curriculum improvement current.
  • Benchmark curriculum improvement against a comparable operation and record the gap.
  • Choose productivity measures for curriculum improvement that do not reward shortcuts.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of curriculum improvement before proposing changes.

Session 2Moving curriculum improvement from approval to execution

  • Define supplier quality requirements affecting inputs to curriculum improvement.
  • Establish the boundary of curriculum improvement and record what sits outside it.
  • Set sampling for curriculum improvement on statistical grounds, not on habit.
  • Set out the decisions in curriculum improvement that require sign-off and by whom.
02

Curriculum improvement: defining quality in measurable terms

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Agreeing what good actually means for curriculum improvement

  • Benchmark the organisation's curriculum improvement against comparable operations.
  • Name a single owner for each element of curriculum improvement.
  • Verify that improvements to curriculum improvement held six months later.
  • Apply structured root cause analysis to the top defect in curriculum improvement.

Session 2Keeping curriculum improvement alive after the initial push

  • Identify the data already collected that bears on curriculum improvement.
  • Define quality for curriculum improvement in terms the customer would recognise.
  • Assemble certification evidence for curriculum improvement as work proceeds, not before the audit.
  • Prepare the summary of curriculum improvement that senior management will read.
03

Curriculum improvement: cost of poor quality

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Sustaining the gain on curriculum improvement after the project ends

  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to curriculum improvement will be introduced.
  • Map the process behind curriculum improvement by walking it, not by describing it.
  • Build a control plan for curriculum improvement identifying what is checked, when and by whom.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when curriculum improvement underperforms.

Session 2Control plans for curriculum improvement that catch problems early

  • Identify where judgement in curriculum improvement is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Write standard work for curriculum improvement with the people who perform it.
  • Identify non-value-adding steps in curriculum improvement and remove them.
  • Identify the few causes responsible for most defects in curriculum improvement.
04

Curriculum improvement: mapping the process as actually performed

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reviewing curriculum improvement when nothing has gone wrong

  • Link the improvement in curriculum improvement to a financial figure leadership recognises.
  • Design the internal audit schedule covering curriculum improvement.
  • Close out actions on curriculum improvement rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Calculate the cost of poor quality attributable to curriculum improvement.

Session 2Standard work for curriculum improvement without deskilling it

  • Build the competence framework that supports curriculum improvement.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in curriculum improvement.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around curriculum improvement are understood.
  • Verify six months later that changes to curriculum improvement have held.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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