Project Overview

PALET is one of twelve projects, funded by the JISC under the Curriculum Design Programme. The project aims to develop a revised programme approval process, which will create a more efficient and flexible approach to the design of new curricula. The redesigned process will be supported by the electronic tools emerging from Cardiff University’s Modern Working Environment (MWE). The electronic toolset will ensure that academic and support staff are supported through each stage of the programme approval process. The technology will allow the programme level and module level information that is produced during curriculum design to be clearly defined and seamlessly fed into other business application (i.e. student record system).

The project builds upon an end-to-end review of the programme approval process, conducted in 2007 through the Lean University Project at Cardiff. PALET will seek to redesign the programme approval process to ensure that new programmes are attractive, innovative, market relevant and of a high academic standard.