Flexible friends
Article Abstract:
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education's new document 'Quality Assurance: a New Approach' heralds a two year testing period to develop a model. It will allow the QAA to help in the development of higher education service for the next century. The first year of the trial will focus on gaining evidence of outcomes which will be set out by the institutions. The second year will also include looking at the processes. The QAA have tried to develop a framework in which the public would believe in service provided by the higher education sector and also give support to the providers.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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Slipping up on our apples and pears
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Universities, in the UK, should achieve similar levels of education according to nationally accepted standards and also fulfill their own criteria. Some universities have suggested the Quality Assurance Agency will not have sufficient academic prowess to evaluate their work. University staff, from the US, could review UK universities. Some subjects could be examined by professional organisations. Vice-chancellors have made representation against being audited because they fear a negative report would damage their standing amongst other universities.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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Smarten up those baggy notions now
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The issue of regulatory structures in the higher education sector in the UK is set to take on a higher profile as the new government reviews regulatory mechanisms in general. Assessment of teaching quality has now become firmly established in higher education, and there is broad agreement on institutional structures. However, there is still a need to establish generally agreed aims for higher education and to develop a set of outputs likely to ensure that these aims are achieved.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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