'The QAA is obviously adopting a policy of reculer pour mieux sauter and abandoning subject reviews to preserve the rest of its operations'
Article Abstract:
An analysis of efforts being made to reduce the amount of bureaucracy faced by universities in the United Kingdom in order to enable them to run more efficiently. Particular attention is paid to the requirements of the Quality Assurance Agency, which, it is claimed, cost universities UKPd250 million in wasted time and effort.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
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The QAA is a waste of time and money, and to judge by its impact on Oxford, it reduces moderately rational persons to a state of neurotic anxiety'
Article Abstract:
The warden of New College, Oxford, examines the work and impact of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). It is argued that while the QAA has succeeded in getting rid of the worst 10% of practice and teaching at universities, it has also managed to get rid of the best 10% as well.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
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