Meeting with External Stakeholders
The Peer Review Group may wish to meet with external stakeholders such as employers, accreditation or professional bodies. Discussions might include how the students/graduates meet their various needs and explore any issues/concerns they may have. Whether their views are taken into account when programmes are revised and what mechanisms are in place to facilitate liasion with the Department/Unit.
Maynooth University Quality Assurance and Enhancement Framework
MU Framework for Quality Assurance and Enhancement 2022
Quality Process and Guidelines
Quality reviews are carried out in academic, administrative and support units on a 7/8 year cycle. Periodically, reviews will also be undertaken of cross-College structures. From time to time, thematic reviews of University-wide issues are also carried out. Typically the review model comprises five key elements:
Quality Assurance is an ongoing process. It should be continuous and does not end with the first review or with the completion of the formal follow-up procedures. It has to be periodically renewed. Subsequent external reviews should take into account progress that has been made since the previous review.
The University's strategic and holistic approach to academic unit review acknowledges that the various aspects of a unit's operations (strategy and organisation, teaching and learning, assessment strategies, research and resources) are inter-related and ensures that members of the unit come together to reflect upon what they are trying to achieve in all aspects of their work, and how these different areas of activity impact upon one another. All members of the unit, both academic and non-academic, are included in the review and are expected to engage, as appropriate, in discussions and the preparation of all materials, as a collegial activity. The primary focus of the review is on quality improvement.
MU Guidelines for Internal Quality Review Academic
MU Guidelines Internal Quality Reviews Admin Support Units
Peer Review Reports and Quality Implementation Plans Cycle 1 to Cycle 4
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/strategy-quality/quality-review-process
Institutional Report
MU CINNTE Report 2019
Annual Reports to QQI
Maynooth University AQR 2024
Maynooth University AQR 2023
Maynooth University AQR 2022
European Standards and Guidelines
ESG 2015