CLOSED: QAA Annual Conference 2012 

This year's QAA Annual Conference, in association with Times Higher Education, took place on Monday 25 June 2012. The theme was Expanding the boundaries of higher education: new challenges in quality assurance.

Rt Hon David Willetts MP, the Universities and Science Minister, and Shabana Mahmood MP, the Shadow Higher Education Minister, both addressed the conference and took questions from delegates. Also on the agenda were a number of break-out seminar sessions, a lunchtime student-designed fringe meeting, and a Question Time-style panel discussion.

Agenda and speakers

Keynote addresses and Question Time panel

Film recordings of the keynote addresses and interviews:

• Welcome by Sir Rodney Brooke CBE - Transcript
• Chief Executive's speech: Expanding the boundaries of higher education: new challenges for quality assurance by Anthony McClaran - Transcript
• Keynote address in association with Times Higher Education by Rt Hon David Willetts MP - Transcript
• Interview and audience Q&A with Rt Hon David Willetts MP and chaired by John Gill, Editor of Times Higher Education - Transcript
• Keynote address by Shabana Mahmood MP - Transcript
• Interview and audience Q&A with Shabana Mahmood MP and chaired by John Gill, Editor of Times Higher Education - Transcript
• QAA Question Time panel chaired by Anthony McClaran - Transcript

Seminar notes and podcasts 

Notes and podcasts from the day's seminars:

• Seminar A - Informing choice: engaging prospective students in higher education and quality
  Podcast: John Tredwell - Transcript
• Seminar B - UK Quality Code: Great Expectations
  Podcast: Dr Jayne Mitchell - Transcript
• Seminar C - Is quality a risky business?
  Podcast: Sophie Richardson - Transcript
• Seminar D - Private HE providers: competitors or partners in a diversified market?
  Podcast: Paul Kirkham - Transcript
• Seminar E - The student as reviewer: involving students in standards and quality in your institution
  Podcast: Dan Derricott  - Transcript
• Seminar F - What do we mean by enhancement?
  Podcast: Alex Bols - Transcript
  Podcast: Neil Casey - Transcript
• Seminar G - Quality assurance: an international perspective
  Podcast: Professor Sean Wellington - Transcript
• Seminar H - Public expectations, teaching quality and sustainability
  Podcast: Virginia Schumacher - Transcript

The QAA Annual Conference podcast includes highlights from the full interviews above, as well as some thoughts about the day from John Gill, Editor of Times Higher Education.

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