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Embedding quality enhancement
Anthony McClaran
Chief Executive
Presentation overview
• QAA: strategic direction
• Private providers in the higher education sector
• The Quality Code
• Enhancement within review
• Questions
QAA: strategic direction
QAA STRATEGY 2014-17
Aim 1: enhance the quality and secure the academic standards of UK higher education, wherever delivered, in order to maintain public confidence
Aim 2: provide leadership, through knowledge and resources, in assuring and enhancing the quality of higher education within the UK and internationally
Aim 3: extend and enhance the value and reach of QAA’s services, within and beyond UK higher education
UK Quality Code for Higher Education
Evidence-based external reviews of higher education providers and reporting our findings publicly
System-wide analysis and dissemination of good practice to improve quality
Student engagement in reviews and governance
Working internationally with other agencies on common criteria for standards and quality
Providing training and events to help higher education providers develop and improve their own quality assurance processes
Advising government on applications for degree-awarding powers and university title
Regulating the Access to Higher Education Diploma which provides an alternative route into higher education for adults
QAA subscriber profile today
Subscriber type Number of subscribers
Higher education institutions/ universities 168
Further education colleges/ colleges 207
Alternative/ private providers 5
Other 1
Total 381
QAA governance
New QAA Chair: Christopher Banks CBE
Governance review
Possible subscription structure review
The changing sector landscape
Removal of student number controls
2015 General Election and future HE Bill
Growth in diversity of the sector: broader reputational range
Continual innovation (for example, massive open online courses)
Continued budgetary pressure
Quality assessment review and procurement exercise in England, Northern Ireland & Wales
Key principles for any future system:
Autonomy and independence of the sector
Co-regulation
Operationally independent quality assurance
Common UK quality assurance framework and the UK Quality Code
Peer review, with students as reviewers on an equal basis
Full engagement with students and their representatives
Involvement of employers and others
Operating internationally and complying with the UK’s Bologna commitments
System-wide analysis to inform policy development
Private providers in the sector
Scope: Educational Oversight
Introduced in 2011
Applications and reviews began in 2012
Review for Educational Oversight
Recognition Scheme for Educational Oversight
Embedded College Review for Educational Oversight
Size and impact
Educational Oversight
Around 347 reviews for 307 private providers and constituent colleges
Of those, 177 still in the system undergoing annual monitoring
Number of full reviews has decreased year on year (loss of Tier 4 licences)
Good practice and commendations
Higher Education Review Plus
7 private providers in 2013-14
6 in 2014-15
The Quality Code
Enhancement within review
‘Taking deliberate steps at institutional level to improve the quality of learning opportunities.’
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