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The Programme Excellence Project (PEP) is a comprehensive review of UCL’s undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes, and one of UCL’s strategic priorities over the next five years.
Progress
- October 2023 – The Programme Excellence Project formally launched at a Town Hall with the President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence. Full recording can be accessed here.
- February 2024 – Submission of draft UG Portfolio Proposals
- May 2024 – Launch of Curriculum Review
- August 2024 – end of year update and plans for next steps
- November 2024 – Launch of Consultation Period for Curriculum Design Principles
- January 2025 – Approval of UCL’s Curriculum Design Principles and PEP2: Curriculum Review Process
- February 2025 – The Curriculum Change World Cafe (read the conversation papers via the PEP SharePoint – UCL login required)
Plans
The project includes a comprehensive review of UCL’s portfolio and curriculum:
Phase 1
Portfolio Review looks at UCL’s lists of programmes, routes and pathways to ensure that we are offering realistic and coherent choices to students, to reduce complexity across a wide range of systems and processes, and to ensure that all students belong to a substantive community.
Phase 2
Curriculum Review offers an opportunity for course teams, working in partnership with students and department and faculty colleagues, to review and make changes to their courses for 2027 entry through a structured and centrally supported curriculum quality enhancement process.
Part A of the PEP2 process will allow course teams to make changes to their portfolio in line with those facilitated during PEP1: Portfolio Review. Part B will enable course teams to make changes to curriculum content including course learning aims and outcomes, module diet structures and assessment and feedback strategies.
Milestones
Phase 1
- Project launch: October 2023
- Students enrol on refreshed programmes: September 2027
Phase 2
• Workstream launch: Summer Term 2024
• Students enrol on refreshed courses: September 2027
