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Quality and Standards for Higher Education
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The QAA
• Established in 1997, QAA safeguards quality and standards in UK HE.
• Primary responsibility for quality and standards rests with individual HEIs.
• QAA checks how well they meet their responsibilities, identifying good practice and making recommendations for improvement.
• QAA investigates any causes for concern about quality and standards.
• QAA also publishes guidelines to help develop effective systems to ensure students have high quality learning experiences.
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The QAA – What is it?
An independent body funded by subscriptions – turnover £11million.
It employs 125 members of staff and uses 550 reviewers.
External Review- Core function to carry out reviews and reports to the public.- Evidence based peer review process.- Team includes student members from 2009-10.- Reports on way in which an HEI exercises its power to grant
degrees.- It aims to ensure that HEIs are providing HE of an acceptable
quality and appropriate academic standard.- It also conducts overseas audits.
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The Academic InfrastructureA set of agreed reference points for setting and
maintaining quality and standards
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Academic Registry
• UWIC has a quality and standards unit which administers our QA framework.
• Systems are centred around the following:
- validation of programmes
- annual programme monitoring
- periodic programme review and modifications
to programme
- UWIC’s committee structure which includes:
programme committees; school committees
- Academic Board and its sub boards
- External Examiner System
- minimum and exceptional
entry system
- student feedback mechanisms
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Barriers to Quality
Ownership of systems by staff – A Quality Culture.
Compliance with systems and commitment to continuous quality
improvement.
Levels of bureaucracy.
Closing of loops.
Business v quality.
Balance between autonomy and accountability.
Management Information and its accuracy.