Presentation by Dagmar Steffens Departmental Director Academic Law

Presentation by Dagmar Steffens Departmental Director, Academic Law Faculty of Business and Law 7 June 2018 Course Connect Maximising Programmatic Value of External Relationships at Operational Level

Rationale and Objectives Our faculty’s curriculum and teaching delivery, as a whole, is already highly practice-oriented and industry engaged. However, this is not consistent across all programmes, and the modules nested with them. This initiative aims to: • Grow and build a programmatic level narrative of industry connections. • Support the strengthening of programmes’ existing relationships at modular level. • Assist the forging of new relationships for modules that may require stronger external input. • Provide an institutional framework for deepening industry content in the curriculum, thereby ensuring greater, measurable impact. • Create a mutually beneficial curriculum level engagement platform for industry partners and UWE.

What is Course Connect An initiative that provides a framework for fostering meaningful and sustained relationships between programmes/modules and suitable external partners. The prospective CC partners will be expected to: • Sign-up with CC for a minimum of two years, ensuring that the organisation and the programme develop a sustained mutually beneficial relationship. • Support essential relationship foundation activities in a variety of areas. • In addition, connect with the module and its people in a variety of ways, covering activities from at least three relationship areas listed in the CC Framework (Appendix A).

What Course Connect is NOT • Re-setting or ‘taking over’ of existing relationships. • Sporadic association of external organisations with any available module. • A tick-box exercise.

Benefits to Course Connect partners