How recent is the PARs scheme?
There have been PARs schemes at Nottingham since 1993. PARs were taken up on a voluntary basis by course teams in seventeen disciplines before 1998, when proposals for institution-wide implementation by 2001 were announced. Taking forward the University policy, which had been approved by Senate in the normal way, Teaching Committee delegated the direction of PARs implementation to a subgroup, the PARs Implementation Group, which first met in October 1999 and held an information event for all Heads of School in May 2000. At that point several Schools already had a PARs scheme in use by one or more year groups and since then the remaining Schools have been offered support to develop PARs schemes of their own.
