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Quality and Standards
Framework – Collaborative
Provision
December 2008
Janet Pearce, University Quality Officer
Objectives
 Gain an understanding of:
> University’s quality and standards framework as it applies to
collaborative provision
> How the framework reflects external expectations
> The underpinning values
> How to access relevant parts of the framework
> Roles and responsibilities
Terminology
 QAA Definitions:
> ‘Academic
standards are a way of describing the level of
achievement that a student has to reach to gain an academic
award (for example, a degree). It should be at a similar level
across the UK.’
> Standards are absolute
Terminology
 ‘Academic quality is a way of describing how well the learning
opportunities available to students help them to achieve their
award. It is about making sure that appropriate and effective
teaching, support, assessment and learning opportunities are
provided for them.’
 ‘Learning opportunities' is taken to mean the combined effect of
the programmes of study and academic and personal support for
students’
Terminology
 Quality can be:
> Assured – evidencing/making transparent (public confidence)
> Enhanced
 UoH definition of enhancement:
> Taking deliberate steps to improve our systems and
processes designed to manage academic quality and
standards
Key elements of the framework
 Regulations
> University programmes regulations (governing award of credit
and progression to the award)
> Unfair means
> Complaints by students
 Codes of practice
> Programme approvals
> Monitoring and Review
> Assessment Procedures
> The Collaborative Provision handbook
Communication of changes
>Relevant committee
>Quality and Standards Update
>Staff development
>UQO website
Approach to CP
 The University’s approach to collaborative
provision:
> A single framework modified appropriately
> Definition: programmes/modules delivered in whole or in part
by a partner institution
> ‘validated’, ‘franchised’ …
> ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ funding
Responsibilities for Q&S(1)
 The awarding institution is responsible for the
academic standards of all awards granted in its name
(QAA Code, Section 2, A1)
 Collaborative arrangements should be negotiated,
agreed and managed in accordance with the formally
stated policies and procedures of the awarding
institution (A3)
Responsibilities (2)
 The awarding institution is ultimately responsible for
ensuring that the quality of the learning opportunities
offered through a collaborative arrangement is
adequate to enable to a student to achieve the
academic standard required for its award (A12)
 Q&S are the responsibility of all academic and related
support staff – UoH and PI
Responsibilities (3)
 Partner Institutions
> Nominate lead academic contact
> Identify admin support staff
> Liaise with relevant UoH faculty
> Internal HE management structure
Responsibilities (4)
>Faculty
- Faculty Academic Contact and CP Administrator
- Oversight across cognate disciplines
>University-level
- Management of partnerships (approval, review,
termination), Quality Audits and legal agreements
- QSC – the Q&S framework
- CPC – oversight of implementation of framework
Securing Standards – Assuring Quality
 Maintaining academic standards
> programme design and approval
> learning, teaching and assessment
> external examiners
> analysis of progression and completion statistics
> feedback to students on assessment
> accredited prior learning
> professional accreditation
Securing Standards – Assuring Quality
 Enhancement – founded on robust QA
processes
> Programme approvals
> Annual monitoring
> Periodic review
Securing Standards – Assuring Quality
 Inputs
> feedback from students, employers and graduates
> providing feedback to students on assessment
> admissions and induction
> placement learning
> the analysis of quantitative data
> external reviews
> professional accreditation
> complaints and appeals
Securing Standards – Assuring Quality
 Institutional oversight
> Collaborative Provision Committee
> Educational Partnerships Committee
> Joint Development Boards
Securing Standards – Assuring Quality
 A Risk Based Approach
> Risk to –
- Academic Standards
- Quality of learning experience
- University reputation
> Financial risk
Enhancing the framework
 Themes 2008-2011
> Student participation
> Diversity of the student experience
> Approval, monitoring and review
> Employer/stakeholder engagement
> Sharing good practice
Values
 We value
> People, by development and reward
> Inclusivity, through equity and diversity
> Innovation, through learning and diversity
> Partnerships, by cooperation and mutuality
 We will be:
> Consultative
> Responsive
> Reflective
> Rigorous
Principles
 Our management of quality and standards is underpinned
by our commitment to a quality and standards framework
which is:
> clear and accessible
> increasingly based on a variation of touch reflecting a risk based
approach
> streamlined
> applied consistently and transparently
And which > locates responsibility at the most appropriate level of the institution
subject to effective institutional oversight.
The role of UQO
 Developing the framework
 Advice and guidance
 Contacts – the collaborative team
> Ms Janet Pearce University Quality Officer (Collaborative
Provision) [email protected] 01482 46 6598
> Ms Liz Pearce University Quality Officer (Collaborative
Provision) [email protected] 01482 46 6703
> Mrs Cecilia Periera-Yates University Quality Officer
(International Provision) [email protected] 01482 46
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