Academic Consultation Panel (ACP) Visits

1. The size of the panel is based on the size of the Faculty/School under review, comprising a minimum of five to a maximum of 14 members, including one local and one non-local academics focussing on each Academy/Department of the Faculty/School, and 1-3 other co-opted members, if deemed necessary, for reasons such as providing transdisciplinary insights or professional expertise from industry. Click here for the detailed Panel composition for individual Faculty/School.
2. To ensure compliance of the programme(s) concerned with Outcomes-Based Teaching and Learning (OBTL) requirements, the Director of Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning will be co-opted on the Panel by default to provide written input to OBTL elements of the programme curricula to ensure compliance with the necessary requirements.

1. For the ACP Chair, nominees should preferably be at the rank of Professor or above and have leadership/management experience serving as Dean or Associate Dean.
2. ACP members should be academics, professionals, or practitioners at a senior level, with substantial relevant scholarly background or experience and, preferably, some knowledge of the Faculty/School being review.
3. For academic ACP members, nominees should be at the rank of Associate Professor or above, and the minimum academic qualification should be a PhD.
4. For the non-local academic ACP members, at least one of them should be from outside the Greater China region in the final Panel formation.
5. To ensure impartiality, nominees for the ACP should not have close affiliation with the academic unit in the past three years, e.g., they should not have served on the advisory committee of the Faculty/School under review in the past three years.

1. The Faculty/School under review should recommend panel membership to the QAC Chairman for approval.  CVs should be collected to ensure appropriateness of the nominees to serve on the panel.    Endorsement of the Dean concerned is required prior to submission of the panel membership nomination.
2. Following the approval of panel membership, the Academic Quality Support Section of the Academic Registry will proceed to appoint the nominees for the visit.

It is encouraged that the SED reference/adopt the Approach-Deployment-Results-Improvement (ADRI) reflective format to assist the Faculty/School to review and report on its teaching, research, service functions and administration in the document. The following information should be included in the SED:

1. mission, goals and objectives
2. administration and organization
3. information on existing programmes and proposed curriculum changes, if any
4. report on follow-up work on the recommendations of the previous ACP review*
5. follow-up actions in response to the recommendations of the DAA*

teaching and learning*
     ．      design of curriculum
     ．      design of teaching and learning processes
     ．      design of student assessment and use of assessment results
     ．      implementation quality
     ．      commitment of resources to teaching and learning

implementation of Outcomes-Based Teaching and Learning (OBTL)

student profile

graduate profile and satisfaction level

research/scholarly activities

quality assurance processes

infrastructure and resources

consultancy/professional/community services

academic staff profile (CVs of not more than two pages for each staff to be included as an Appendix) - with information on staff name, academic qualifications, discipline, research, selected publications of the last three years, links with industry or the professional community

* To be prepared using the ADRI approach

The above is by no means exhaustive. Depending on their nature and complexity, the Faculty/School is encouraged to add extra information as they deem fit.