Space and Monitoring of Space

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Dear Aberystwyth University,

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please provide answers to the following:

1. Do you monitor attendance of users of rooms including the physical number of individuals occupying a room for an event?
2. How do you monitor attendance of users of rooms?
a. If it is via an attendance monitoring system please state which one you are using?
3. If you monitor the usage of space:
a. What percentage of your planned or centrally recorded teaching activity takes place?
b. What percentage is recorded as not having taken place?
4. If you monitor the actual levels of occupation of General teaching rooms (Classrooms) what is the average percentage of recorded occupation within the rooms during general Undergraduate teaching weeks.
5. What percentage of teaching rooms do you monitor?
6. How many teaching rooms do you have by the following categories:
- Lecture Theatre
- Classroom
- Computer Lab
- All other specialist teaching spaces
o Please specify what these Specialist Teaching Spaces are.
a. How many of these rooms are managed centrally or locally (i.e. within a college of faculty)?
7. Do you have a timetabling policy?
a. If you have a timetabling policy do you state the hours that teaching will take place between?
b. Do you differentiate between “Day or Core Hours” and “Evening or Non-Core Hours” and if so what are these hours?
8. What percentage of your teaching is held during the hours of:
a. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm?
b. 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm?

Yours faithfully,

Mary Greencup

Info Compliance [infstaff], Aberystwyth University

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Dear Mary Greencup,

 

Thank you for your request for information, received by Aberystwyth
University on 21^st March 2018, in which you requested the following
information:

 

1.    Do you monitor attendance of users of rooms including the physical
number of individuals occupying a room for an event?

2.    How do you monitor attendance of users of rooms?

a.    If it is via an attendance monitoring system please state which one
you are using?

3.    If you monitor the usage of space:

a.    What percentage of your planned or centrally recorded teaching
activity takes place?

b.    What percentage is recorded as not having taken place?

4.    If you monitor the actual levels of occupation of General teaching
rooms (Classrooms) what is the average percentage of recorded occupation
within the rooms during general Undergraduate teaching weeks.

5.    What percentage of teaching rooms do you monitor?

6.    How many teaching rooms do you have by the following categories:

       -       Lecture Theatre

       -       Classroom

       -       Computer Lab

       -       All other specialist teaching spaces

              Please specify what these Specialist Teaching Spaces are.

a.    How many of these rooms are managed centrally or locally (i.e.
within a college of faculty)?

7.    Do you have a timetabling policy?

a.    If you have a timetabling policy do you state the hours that
teaching will take place between?

b.    Do you differentiate between “Day or Core Hours” and “Evening or
Non-Core Hours” and if so what are these hours?

8.    What percentage of your teaching is held during the hours of:

a.     9:00 am – 5:00 pm?

b.     5:00 pm – 9:00 pm?

 

You will receive a response as soon as possible, and in any event not
later than in 20 working days (20^th April 2018). 

 

Yours sincerely,              

 

Julie Archer

 

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Julie Archer Julie Archer

Rheolwr Cofnodion Records Manager
   

Llyfrgell Hugh Owen Hugh Owen Library 

Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth University,

Penglais, Penglais,

Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth,

SY23 3DZ SY23 3DZ

DU UK

   

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University of the Year for Teaching Quality - The Times & The Sunday Times
2018.

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Info Compliance [infstaff], Aberystwyth University

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Dear Mary Greencup,

 

I am writing in response to your recent request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).  Please find below the
information requested. 

 

1.    Do you monitor attendance of users of rooms including the physical
number of individuals occupying a room for an event?

We monitor attendance for all scheduled teaching activities.

2.    How do you monitor attendance of users of rooms?

a.    If it is via an attendance monitoring system please state which one
you are using?

It is a bespoke system we developed in-house

3.    If you monitor the usage of space:

a.    What percentage of your planned or centrally recorded teaching
activity takes place?

For the academic year 2016 – 2017, 94.6% of booked teaching activities
recorded more than 0 attendees.

b.    What percentage is recorded as not having taken place?

For the academic year 2016 – 2017, 5.4% of booked teaching hours recorded
0 attendees.

4.    If you monitor the actual levels of occupation of General teaching
rooms (Classrooms) what is the average percentage of recorded occupation
within the rooms during general Undergraduate teaching weeks.

Average occupation (as defined by the Higher Education Statistics Agency
(HESA)) is 47%.

5.    What percentage of teaching rooms do you monitor?

100%.

6.    How many teaching rooms do you have by the following categories:

-      Lecture Theatre

-      Classroom

101

Please note that this figure includes both lecture and seminar rooms as we
do not differentiate between the two.

-      Computer Lab

4

-      All other specialist teaching spaces

60

Please specify what these Specialist Teaching Spaces are.

The spaces include laboratories, language resource centres, rehearsal
rooms, theatre spaces, group study rooms, art studios, darkrooms, etc.

 

a.    How many of these rooms are managed centrally or locally (i.e.
within a college of faculty)?

-      Lecture Theatre

-      Classroom

60 are centrally-timetabled, 51 are managed locally.

Again, please note that this figure includes both lecture and seminar
rooms as we do not differentiate between the two.

-      Computer Lab

2 are centrally-timetabled, 2 are managed locally.

-      All other specialist teaching spaces

All are managed locally.

 

7.    Do you have a timetabling policy?

a.    If you have a timetabling policy do you state the hours that
teaching will take place between?

Yes, it can be found on our website:
[1]https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departme...

b.    Do you differentiate between “Day or Core Hours” and “Evening or
Non-Core Hours” and if so what are these hours?

As per section 2.1.3 of the above, the standard teaching week is:

Monday - Friday (inclusive)

09:10 - 18:00 (inclusive)

Wednesday afternoons (from 13:00 onwards) are reserved for undergraduate
sport and other student experience enrichment activities. Any exceptions
to this require Head of Department approval.

8.    What percentage of your teaching is held during the hours of:

a.    9:00 am – 5:00 pm?

97.4%

b.    5:00 pm – 9:00 pm?

2.6%

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Julie Archer

 

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Julie Archer Julie Archer

Rheolwr Cofnodion Records Manager
   

Llyfrgell Hugh Owen Hugh Owen Library 

Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth University,

Penglais, Penglais,

Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth,

SY23 3DZ SY23 3DZ

DU UK

   

Ffôn: +44 (0) 1970 62 8593 Tel: +44 (0) 1970 62 8593

Gwefan: [3]http://www.aber.ac.uk/cy/infocompliance/ Website: [4]http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/infocompliance/

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/contributors/ab... http://archiveshub.ac.uk/contributors/ab...

Twitter: @AberUniArchives Twitter: @AberUniArchives

 

 

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Prifysgol Aberystwyth www.aber.ac.uk
Prifysgol y Flwyddyn ar gyfer Ansawdd Dysgu - The Times & The Sunday Times
2018.

Aberystwyth University www.aber.ac.uk
University of the Year for Teaching Quality - The Times & The Sunday Times
2018.

References

Visible links
1. https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departme...
2. http://www.aber.ac.uk/
3. http://www.aber.ac.uk/cy/infocompliance/
4. http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/infocompliance/