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The UK Quality Code and Higher Education Reviews Admissions Policy and the QAA Quality Code – Are you ready?
Catherine Kerfoot, Development Officer, QAA
UK Quality Code Chapter B2: Recruitment, selection and admission to higher
education
Cathy KerfootQAA
22 July 2014
The UK Quality Code Part B, Chapter 2: Recruitment, selection and admission to higher education
Development process
• Up to December 2011 – The Code of Practice, Section 10: Admissions to Higher Education
• Since December 2011 – the UK Quality Code Chapter B2: Admissions (repackaged version of Section 10, content broadly the same)
• Now published and current for the purpose of review from September 2014 – UK Quality Code Chapter B2: Recruitment, selection and admission to higher education(restructured, revised, updated)
What’s new?
• The title• Introduction• Structure:
• General principles• Stages of the process
• Explanatory information• But everything building on what was there
before
The Expectation
Recruitment, selection and admission policies and procedures adhere to the principles of fair
admission. They are transparent, reliable, valid, inclusive and underpinned by appropriate
organisational structures and processes. They support higher education providers in the
selection of students who are able to complete their programme.
A1: UK and European reference points for academic standards
A2: Degree-awarding bodies’ reference points for academic standards
A3: Securing academic standards and an outcomes-based approach to academic awards
B1: Programme design, development and approvalB2: Recruitment, selection and admission to higher educationB3: Learning and teachingB4: Enabling student development and achievementB5: Student engagementB6: Assessment of students and the recognition of prior learningB7: External examiningB8: Programme monitoring and reviewB9: Academic appeals and student complaints B10: Managing higher education provision with othersB11: Research degrees
Part A: Setting and maintaining academic standards
Part B: Assuring and enhancing academic quality
Part C: Information about higher education provision
General introduction
Chapters of the Code
Higher Education Review
Review judgements made about:• The setting and maintenance of the threshold
academic standards of awards(or the maintenance of the threshold academic standards of awards offered on behalf of degree-awarding bodies and/or other awarding organisations, for non degree-awarding bodies)
• The quality of student learning opportunities • The quality of the information produced by the
provider about its provision• The enhancement of student learning
opportunities
www.qaa.ac.uk/InstitutionReports/types-of-review/higher-education-review/
Reviewers look at each Expectation
Extract from table in current HER handbook, Annex 2 (p.41)
Judgements made against Expectations
Extract from table in current HER handbook, Annex 2 (p.34)
Resources for further information
www.qaa.ac.uk/qualitycode
• Frequently asked questions• Knowledge bases
Questions?