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Academic Reviews

The College is very interested to know how your academic work is progressing, and this interest is not merely restricted to your Director(s) of Studies. To this end, the College operates a system of academic review, giving you an opportunity to meet each year with a senior member of the College (the Master for 3rd and 4th year undergraduates, and the Senior Tutor for 1st and 2nd year undergraduates), to give the College an opportunity to reflect with you on the progress of your work.

The College is interested to know where things have gone well, allowing us to acknowledge progress and achievement, but also wishes to know where you feel that there may be problems, with a view to enabling you to address such concerns effectively. It is important, also, that we provide an opportunity for you to comment on the College’s educational provision and the provision of other important resources. I hope that discussion of this nature already takes place between you and your Director(s) of Studies and/or Tutor, but it is important that there is also a forum for an independent discussion of these issues.

As part of the process of preparing yourself for your Academic Review meeting, you will be asked to complete a form. I hope that it will help you to focus on the issues you would like to raise at the meeting, and will enable your review meeting to be as effective as possible. You will notice that there is also a place on the form for your Director of Studies to provide comments in order that the meeting might be as focussed and profitable as possible.

I hope that you will find this meeting profitable and helpful. Thank you for your cooperation.