QAA Code of Practice
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) has published a Code of Practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education, representing a compendium of good practice in the provision of higher education programmes.
Each section of the Code is structured as a series of precepts or general principles, with accompanying outline guidance. The precepts identify key matters that the QAA expects an institution to be able to demonstrate it is addressing effectively through its own quality assurance mechanisms. The accompanying guidance is provided to assist institutions in maintaining and enhancing the quality of provision for students and other stakeholders. The guidance is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive: its purpose is to offer a framework for quality assurance and control which institutions may wish to use directly and adapt according to their own needs, traditions, cultures and decision-making processes. BSU has adopted the Code in this spirit.
- Postgraduate Research Programmes
- Collaborative Provision
- Students with Disabilities
- External Examining
- Academic Appeals and Student Complaints on Academic Matters
- Assessment of Students
- Programme Design, Approval, Monitoring and Review
- Career Education, Advice and Guidance
- Placement Learning
- Admissions to Higher Education
The Academic Infrastructure is being replaced by the UK Quality Code for Higher Education. Content on this page may be superseded by new Quality Code material.
The UK Quality Code for Higher Education (or Quality Code) sets out the Expectations all providers of UK higher education are required to meet. It gives all higher education providers a shared starting point for setting, describing and assuring the academic standards of their higher education awards and programmes and the quality of learning opportunities they provide. Individual education providers use the Quality Code to design their policies for maintaining academic standards and quality.
QAA is currently working closely with the UK higher education sector to develop the Quality Code. It will replace the set of national reference points known as the Academic Infrastructure from the 2012-13 academic year.
The Quality Code has three parts:
- Part A: setting and maintaining threshold academic standards
- Part B: assuring and enhancing academic quality
- Part C: providing information about higher education
This page last updated by Academic Services November 2011