Embedding quality – a quality enhancement driven approach

Jill MorganAssistant Dean, Learning and Teaching,

Quality Enhancement, School of Arts and Media

External quality landscape

• Quality Assurance Agency QAA• Unistats Key Information Sets KIS• League Tables• Professional body Accreditation

QAA

• QAA Quality Code• Higher Education Review • Causes of Concern• Enhancement Projects• http://youtu.be/jSGOjELQJ7g

QAA Quality Code

• Set of Principles and Guidance• Produced by peer group from UKHE; academic and

QA staff and students• Forms basis for Higher Education review

• Part A: Setting and maintaining academic standards• Part B: Assuring and enhancing academic quality • Part C: Information about higher education

provision

QAA Academic Standards

• National qualifications frameworks for higher education

• Guidance on qualification characteristics • National credit frameworks for higher

education• Subject benchmark statements

How do leaders work with Quality frameworks?

• Mapping QAA Quality Code against University processes – identify enhancements

• Interface between external QA and university community

• Enable ownership of processes through making them meaningful

Programme Design, development and Approval

• Consultation with stakeholders; academic, industry, students, professional bodies

• MA benchmark statements• NQFHE• External Examiners, External Advisers• Support to Development team• Prepare documentation for a Panel Approval

event with external academic and professional input

Programme Design, development and Approval

• Guide for Programme teams• Input of Learning and Teaching team• Involvement of students• Internal Peer Review and positive feedback• Make the Approval Panel a positive and

developmental space

Annual Review and Monitoring

• Programme team and students are involved• Work with centrally provided data and analysis• External examiner reports• Industry & employer feedback• Student Evaluation• Areas for enhancement• Enable enhancements to be made without excess

bureaucracy• Feeds into School and university Annual Review

process

Activity

• Issues for QA for the MADA• Sharing through discussion and review of work• Identify priority work areas for tomorrow