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Summary
Summary
Universities and further education colleges are under increasing pressure to provide 'quality' for their students. Quality assurance and development issues affect the staff, resources, administration and culture of an academic institution, yet there is often a lack of clear guidance available to those responsible for implementing best practice.
This book provides practical guidelines for managing academic quality assurance and quality enhancement, outlining best practice from both the UK and the rest of the world. Each chapter addresses the key points, risks and good practice across a wide range of quality issues, drawing explicitly and in detail from the QAA guidance on the Code of Practice, Subject Benchmarks, Qualifications Framework and Institutional Audit.
The material is presented in an accessible and straightforward style, incorporating useful features such as development questions for individual or team review.
A maintained website accompanying this book (www.academicquality.com) contains further useful resources, with updates and supplementary material in this constantly changing area.
Author Notes
Professor Patrick McGhee is Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire and is a subject reviewer and institutional auditor for the QAA.
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| Part 1 The quality infrastructure |
| 1 The Framework for Higher Education Qualifications |
| 2 Benchmarking academic standards: the subject benchmark statements |
| 4 Information on quality and standards in higher education |
| 5 Managing quality enhancement |
| Part 2 Managing quality in the context of the QAA Code of Practice |
| 6 The code of practice |
| 7 Collaborative provision |
| 8 Students with disabilities |
| 9 External examning systems |
| 10 Academic appeals and student complaints |
| 11 The assessment of students 12 Programme approval, monitoring and review |
| 13 Career education information and guidance |
| 14 Placement learning |
| 15 Recruitment and admission of students |
| 16 Distance learning |
