Skip to main navigation Skip to content
RSS Feed
Newsroom FAQs Contact us Work with us
assuring standards and improving quality of UK higher education
 
 

Assuring standards and quality 

Graduates celebrating 

We work with the higher education sector to develop reference points and resources, which institutions use to guide their policies for maintaining academic standards and quality.


These reference points have been known as the Academic Infrastructure. The new UK Quality Code for Higher Education will replace the Academic Infrastructure from the 2012-13 academic year.

The UK Quality Code for Higher Education (the 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 the learning opportunities they provide.

The Quality Code has three parts:

The Quality Code is currently being developed and will replace the set of national reference points known as the Academic Infrastructure from the 2012-13 academic year. If you would like further information about where components of the Academic Infrastructure can be found in the new Quality Code, please see our guide: Mapping the Academic Infrastructure to the UK Quality Code for Higher Education. More information about the transition from the Academic Infrasture to the Quality Code can be found in the Explanatory notes for the launch of UK Quality Code for Higher Education. 

 

© The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education 2012
Accessibility | Privacy | Information publication scheme | Site map | Reviewer extranet