
QAA Strategy
Publication Date: 21 Jul 2020
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Our vision is for world leading and independently assured higher education.
As the independent body entrusted with monitoring and advising on standards and quality in UK higher education, we are dedicated to checking that the three million students working towards a UK qualification get the higher education experiences they are entitled to expect. We ensure that students are involved all aspects of our work.
We work across all four nations of the UK. We also build international partnerships to enhance and promote the reputation of UK higher education worldwide.
The work we do supports our mission to safeguard standards and improve the quality of UK higher education wherever it is delivered around the world.
Higher education policy and regulation is devolved among the four nations of the UK. The statutory responsibility for the registration and regulation of higher education providers sits with the respective national funders and regulators: the Office for Students in England; the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland; the Scottish Funding Council in Scotland; and the Higher Education Funding Council in Wales. The UK Quality Code applies across all jurisdictions.
QAA is the only body officially recognised to undertake independent assessments and evaluations, which are in turn used by all four bodies to inform their regulatory decision making. QAA also works with the representative bodies of UK higher education providers and our individual member institutions.
Our four short films explain more about the work we do across the UK and internationally. They were created in 2017, our 20th anniversary year, and feature interviews with a number of vice-chancellors and principals from across the UK higher education sector.
Our strategy sets out QAA's strategic priorities.
Publication Date: 21 Jul 2020
We have published our full annual report and financial statements for 2018-19.
Publication Date: 24 Apr 2020
Quality in Action provides a review of our work and its impact in 2017-18.
Publication Date: 20 Feb 2019