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Our resource database currently contains 7 resources in the Quality enhancement section, listed in summary form below. To view the full descriptive record for each resource click the '[View full description/Comments] ' link after the title.
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Full list of 7 resources from the Quality enhancement section listed below.
External examining : Engineering Subject Centre teaching guide
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This resource is part of a series of Engineering Subject Centre teaching guides aimed at the busy engineering academic. It addresses the topic of external examining and considers practice, procedures and principles. A separate but related file of vignettes, written by other contributors, is intended to provoke debate around the topic and encourage
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• http://www.engsc.ac.uk/teaching-guides/external-examining/index.…
Scotland’s Quality Enhancement Themes : Engineering Subject Centre website
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This is an Engineering Subject Centre web page about Scotland’s Quality Enhancement Themes. The Enhancement Themes initiative aims to enhance the student learning experience in Scottish higher education by identifying specific areas for development. The themes encourage academic and support staff and students to share current good practice and
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• http://www.engsc.ac.uk/an/tqe/scotland.asp
British Standards Institution (BSI) education website
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This is the Education website of BSI. The area for Higher Education includes page content and presentations on BSI’s role in the development of product and service standards and on the benefits of standards. There is subject specific content and links to further resources including education publications available from BSI, and BS Online, the
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URL(s):
• http://www.bsieducation.org/
Progress files for higher education
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The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education's (QAA) mission is to safeguard the public interest in sound standards of higher education qualifications and to encourage continuous improvement in the management of the quality of higher education. This web page describes what Progress files are and provides a link to guidelines on their preparation.
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• http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/progressfiles/defaul…
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)
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The QAA was established in 1997 and is an independent body funded by subscriptions from universities and colleges of higher education, and through contracts with the main higher education funding bodies. The Agency's mission is to safeguard the public interest in standards of higher education qualifications and to encourage continuous improvement in
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• http://www.qaa.ac.uk/
Quality assurance and employer engagement in HE learning
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This is a web page relating to the HEFCE report and accompanying research report that present findings and recommendations from the Quality Assurance Task Group (HEFCE and the QAA) on employer engagement. The group looked at the quality assurance needs of employer-led and funded provision to see whether the HE sector requires additional support.
URL(s):
• http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rdreports/2008/rd13_08/
Unistats
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Unistats is an official website to enable comparisons to be made between subjects at universities and colleges in the UK. The website is owned by HEFCE, who have contracted UCAS to manage the website on its behalf. The data can be searched by subject and institution, study mode and level. It includes:
• Student data - entry qualifications
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URL(s):
• http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/
