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Nine posts, not one overloaded lecturer.

This is the academic establishment as it is actually being built, with the standard each post is hired against and its real status. Named profiles publish here as appointments are signed.

Individual staff profiles publish here as appointments are signed. Forward will not list photographs and biographies of people who are not employed, and will not describe an unappointed post as filled.

Four sides of the model

Coaching, judging, design and oversight are separate jobs.

Forward splits the six jobs traditionally stacked on one academic, so nobody has to coach you and judge you at the same time.

Coaching side

Posts whose job is to get you through: mentoring, teaching, placement.

Judging side

Posts that decide whether the evidence meets the standard. Separated from coaching by rule.

Design side

Posts that build the unit, the rubric and the supervised AI, then hand it over.

Oversight

Posts that answer for quality, staffing and independence.

The establishment

Every post, published.

Filter by side of the model
CoachingRecruitment open

Programme Mentor

One named person who owns your progress from enrolment to graduation, and calls you when the data changes.

Hired against

  • • A degree in a relevant field plus three years of coaching, advising or case-management practice
  • • Trained on the Forward progression rules, the two pathways and the entry-date calendar
  • • Assessed on contact cadence and risk response, never on marks awarded
Ratio
1 to 80 in year one, 1 to 120 at steady state
Answers to
Programme Chair
CoachingRecruitment open

Course Instructor

A subject specialist who answers your subject question inside one working day and runs clinics before every window.

Hired against

  • • Master's level or demonstrable senior practice in the subject taught
  • • Teaches in both the Term Model and the Block Model
  • • Never marks the students they teach
Ratio
1 per 250 active students per course
Answers to
Programme Chair
CoachingRecruitment open

Practice and Placement Tutor

The person who prepares you for the twelve-month paid placement, stays with you through it, and assesses the work.

Hired against

  • • Industry experience in the sector they broker placements into
  • • Trained in work-integrated learning assessment with employer co-assessors
  • • Holds a named employer portfolio, not a generic placements inbox
Ratio
1 per 60 students on placement
Answers to
Director of Cooperative Education
JudgingRecruitment open

Evaluator (independent assessor)

A trained assessor who marks your evidence against the published rubric, and who never taught you.

Hired against

  • • Subject competence plus rubric calibration before any live marking
  • • Blind marking wherever the evidence format allows it
  • • Re-calibrated each window against a sampled set
Ratio
Sized to a 72-hour turnaround per window
Answers to
Academic Senate, through the assessment regulations
OversightRecruitment open

External Examiner and Quality Assurance Officer

The independent check that the marking, the turnaround promises and the coach and judge separation are real.

Hired against

  • • Senior academic standing outside the Forward delivery chain
  • • No teaching, mentoring or marking load at Forward
  • • Reports to Council, not to the executive being audited
Ratio
One per School, plus an institutional lead
Answers to
University Council
DesignRecruitment open

Curriculum Architect

The reason your rubric exists before the work is set, and the reason two cohorts get the same standard.

Hired against

  • • Doctoral study or senior practice, plus instructional design capability
  • • Builds outcomes, rubrics, question banks and AI grounding packs
  • • Designs the unit and never marks it
Ratio
1 per competence unit family
Answers to
Senior Academic Officer
OversightOpens with the first cohort

Programme Chair

One academic owner per programme: your competency register, course approvals, progression and award board.

Hired against

  • • Academic authority in the programme discipline
  • • Accountable for the programme's competency register end to end
  • • Sits on the Academic Senate
Ratio
1 per programme
Answers to
Dean of School
OversightOpens with the first cohort

Dean of School

The person who answers for whether your School is staffed to keep its promises.

Hired against

  • • Senior academic leadership experience
  • • Owns the School staffing plan across every role in the model
  • • Holds Programme Chairs to account at Senate
Ratio
1 per School
Answers to
Senior Academic Officer
DesignAppointed

AI Learning Systems Lead (Mwalimu)

The named human accountable for what Mwalimu is allowed to do, and for the rule that it never issues a mark.

Hired against

  • • Academic plus applied AI systems experience
  • • Publishes grounding sources and behaviour changes
  • • Answers to the AI Oversight Board every month
Ratio
Institutional post
Answers to
Senior Academic Officer and the AI Oversight Board

Questions

Who teaches, who marks, answered.

Who will teach me at Forward University?
Nine separate posts, not one overloaded lecturer. A Programme Mentor owns your progress, Course Instructors answer subject questions within one working day, independent Evaluators mark your evidence against a published rubric, and a Practice Tutor carries your twelve-month paid placement.
Why are there no individual staff profiles yet?
Because the founding intake has not started and most appointments are still in recruitment. Each post is published with its hiring standard, its student-facing promise and its real status, and named profiles appear here on the day an appointment is signed.
Will the person who teaches me also mark me?
No. Teaching and marking are separated by rule: Course Instructors never mark their own students, and Evaluators mark evidence against the published rubric only. The quality assurance officer audits that separation every assessment window.
Does AI teach the courses?
No. Mwalimu explains, drills and scores practice attempts at any hour, under a named AI Learning Systems Lead and the AI Oversight Board. Every decision that counts, including every mark, is issued by a human.
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