Core principles of PARs

Whether you decide to develop an IT-based PAR or a paper-based PAR, the principles remain the same.

• PARs are predominantly student-focused:
• a balance is to be struck between meeting the administrative needs of the department and supporting the development of students on an individual basis.
• a minimum level of one-to-one staff-student dialogue should be agreed. Experience so far indicates that a pattern of three short meetings per year seems to be the minimum practical arrangement. It is understood that distance-learning students may need to use telephone and email.