quality and standards framework – collaborative provision december 2008 janet pearce, university...
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Quality and Standards Framework – Collaborative ProvisionDecember 2008Janet 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 2098