Educational and Student Policy
Programme specifications
The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) requires that each programme leading to an award is described in a programme specification. In Cambridge, programme specifications are produced for each Tripos (or each course in an interdisciplinary Tripos like the Natural Sciences Tripos), MPhil programme, other taught postgraduate course, certificate and diploma.
The University is required to make all programme specifications publicly available and does so by publishing them on the University's teaching quality information site, CamDATA. An archive of programme specifications is also maintained on CamDATA and referred to in students' examination transcripts.
In this section
- the nature and purpose of programme specifications
- drafting programme specifications
- revising programme specifications
- General Board policy on the inclusion of employers' views in programme specifications
Programme specification templates
Useful external information