About
The Quality Enhancement Themes represent one element of the new enhancement-led strategy in Scottish higher education. This strategy is learner-centred; its focus is the student experience. A thematic approach to quality enhancement is helping Scottish higher education institutions, individually and collectively, to:
- address the problems and challenges inherent in twenty-first century mass and global higher education
- find high quality and effective solutions to improve the student experience
- be more efficient and effective in delivering transformational change.
The Enhancement Themes are planned and directed by the sector through the Scottish Higher Education Enhancement Committee (SHEEC). SHEEC manages the programme of Enhancement Theme activity in the context of a five-year rolling plan of topics.
Partners
Five partner bodies are involved in implementing the Enhancement Themes initiative:
In addition, SParQS (Student Participation in Quality Scotland) further assists and supports student engagement in quality assurance and enhancement activities, working closely with student associations.
Some key resources:
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Full list of 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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URL(s):
• 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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URL(s):
• http://www.engsc.ac.uk/an/tqe/scotland.asp
Teaching Quality Enhancement : Engineering Subject Centre web page
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This web page on the Engineering Subject Centre site provides useful general information about teaching quality enhancement, and the QAA process across the UK. Links are provided to further information on areas including subject benchmarking and programme specifications.
URL(s):
• http://www.engsc.ac.uk/an/tqe/index.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/
E-xcellence website : E-xcellence benchmarking tool for quality assessment in e-learning
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This is the website of E-xcellence, a web-based instrument focusing on e-learning in higher education. It is the chief output of a two-year project, undertaken under the auspices of EADTU with the involvement of 12 European institutions with an interest in e-learning developments. There are two modes: Quickscan allows the user a short orientation on
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URL(s):
• http://www.eadtu.nl/e-xcellenceQS/
