Date of review	Publication date	Type of review	Judgements about quality and standards	Reference
Apr-2011	16 Sep 2011	Audit of Collaborative Provision: England and Northern Ireland	Confidence can reasonably be placed in the soundness of the institution's present and likely future management of the academic standards of its awards. - What does this mean? Confidence can reasonably be placed in the soundness of the institution's present and likely future management of the quality of the learning opportunities available to students. - What does this mean?	ISBN 978 1 84979 382 7

Features of good practice	Recommendations for action
the Learning and Quality Enhancement Handbook as a comprehensive resource for partners and schools in developing, maintaining and enhancing collaborative provision the care given to the validation of distance education programmes, which contributes significantly to the assurance of quality in such programmes the pivotal role of the link tutors and the structures for their support and development in ensuring the effectiveness of collaborative partnerships the Professional Doctorate Development Group and its role in promoting consistency of practice and in enhancing quality.	It would be desirable for the University to: ensure the full completion of each monitoring report through the inclusion of comprehensive data tables, as specified in the annual and quality monitoring report template take steps to ensure that the University's policies and procedures are followed for the sharing of external examiner reports, as a matter of course, with student representatives at all boards of studies establish a means of extracting and disseminating, more systematically, learning points from the University annual overviews of programme monitoring and from professional, statutory and regulatory body accreditations make explicit the degree of flexibility in implementation available to programme teams in collaborative partners with respect to embedding personal development planning in the curriculum ensure that any future strategies and policies for staff development are explicit regarding the needs of partner institutions.

Features of good practice

Recommendations for action

the Learning and Quality Enhancement Handbook as a comprehensive resource for partners and schools in developing, maintaining and enhancing collaborative provision
the care given to the validation of distance education programmes, which contributes significantly to the assurance of quality in such programmes
the pivotal role of the link tutors and the structures for their support and development in ensuring the effectiveness of collaborative partnerships
the Professional Doctorate Development Group and its role in promoting consistency of practice and in enhancing quality.

It would be desirable for the University to:

ensure the full completion of each monitoring report through the inclusion of comprehensive data tables, as specified in the annual and quality monitoring report template
take steps to ensure that the University's policies and procedures are followed for the sharing of external examiner reports, as a matter of course, with student representatives at all boards of studies
establish a means of extracting and disseminating, more systematically, learning points from the University annual overviews of programme monitoring and from professional, statutory and regulatory body accreditations
make explicit the degree of flexibility in implementation available to programme teams in collaborative partners with respect to embedding personal development planning in the curriculum
ensure that any future strategies and policies for staff development are explicit regarding the needs of partner institutions.

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