Read guidance on the Annual Course Review for the current academic year.
About the Annual Course Review
The Annual Course Review (ACR) is a key part of the University’s quality assurance and enhancement framework. It provides an opportunity for review, reflection and evaluation of the delivery of a course or group of aggregated courses and the performance of students and allows the University to fulfil its responsibilities for maintaining the quality and standards of its awards.
The ACR is underpinned by the use of qualitative and quantitative data and evidence. It is critical to identifying issues, risks and actions for improvement and enhancement.
The ACR comprises four stages:
- consideration by the Boards of Study (BoS) of the courses and modules for which they have responsibility and completion of the ACR template academic year 2024-25 [DOCX 28KB]
- consideration and endorsement of ACR Course Reports by the School Education Committee (SEC)
- preparation of a ACR School Summary Report template academic year 2024-25 [DOCX 18KB] prepared by the School Director of Teaching and Learning (DTL)
- preparation of an overview report for consideration by the University Education Committee (UEC) based on the School level reports.
Changes for 24/25
We have replaced the individual course ACR action plan with the 'living' subject level Student Experience and Outcomes plan for BoS to consider. Any arising actions for a course will feed into these subject plans.
Timescales
- Schools to determine timescales for SEC consideration of ACR reports
- completed School Level Summary report to be submitted to Educational Enhancement by Wednesday 16 April 2025 (email to s.connelly@sussex.ac.uk)
- University Education Committee considers ACR overview report Wednesday 14 May 2025.
Full details of how to submit reports will be provided to DTLs by email.
More information
Further guidance on how to complete the ACR can be found in the ACR Review handbook [PDF 429KB].
Data for the ACR Process
A standardised data set will be available for each course in January. Details on how to access this will follow in December.