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LSTM Annual
Report 2014/15

Dr Sue Assinder
- Director of

Department of
Education

Education & Training

LSTM has for many years delivered masters’ and postgraduate for teaching. However,
research degrees under a franchise agreement with the the gold standard for any
University of Liverpool. This year we achieved several important higher education institution is

milestones on the road to independent delivery of our to be able to award degrees in its own name and this is the
education and training portfolio.
next goal for LSTM. In July, we submitted to the Privy Council

an application for powers to award both taught and research
In January 2015 we submitted an application to the University degrees. This was considered by the Quality Assurance Agency
to be granted the status of an accredited institution. This
(QAA), and we were delighted when the QAA determined

was approved by the University after a detailed examination that LSTM had made a prima facie case for the application to
of LSTM’s systems and processes for assuring high quality proceed to detailed scrutiny. Over the next year we will have

teaching and meetings with sta and students at an a number of engagements with a scrutiny panel of senior
accreditation visit in March. The University commended
academics appointed by the QAA, who will meet with sta and

in particular LSTM’s engagement with its students and students and observe teaching-related meetings. We expect
responsiveness to their feedback.
the outcome of the scrutiny in early 2017.

The Student Information System – A Single Source
The teaching and lecturers have been of Truth
fantastic, amazing depth of knowledge and

huge amounts of clinical insight to impart.
In order to prepare for its accredited status, LSTM has invested
Fantastic experience and really glad I came.
much time over the last year installing a new Student
- Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene student, Information System (SIS) to manage the student life cycle. An
on-line application system was launched in September 2014
February 2015
and was followed over the year with roll-out of processes
for managing student registration and assessment and

Being an accredited institution will give us greater programme approval. The SIS now integrates all student and
independence to develop and approve new programmes programme information and serves as a ‘single source of truth’

and will also allow us to receive direct government funding
that feeds information to all of the other systems involved in

MSc students on a eld exercise collecting snails to study trematodes

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