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Become a member

In 2026-27, membership gives you a strengthened, future-focused offer built around five major themes affecting UK and global higher education. These themes are shaped by what members have said they value most, and by the wider trends and pressures we see across the sector - ensuring support is focused where it will make the greatest difference.

 

Transforming quality processes

 

Supporting you to protect academic standards, streamline quality arrangements and strengthen data informed decision making across your institution.

Futureproofing assessment

 

Enabling you to design authentic, inclusive and AI aware assessment that balances innovation with academic integrity and maintains confidence in standards.

Strengthening partnership oversight

 

Equipping you to build strong governance and accountability, develop partnership capability and pedagogy, and manage academic and reputational risk with confidence.

Responding to emerging policy and regulatory change

 

Giving you timely intelligence and practical support to prepare for TEF, meet evolving regulatory expectations and respond to lifelong learning priorities.

Curriculum redesign

 

Helping you rethink programme architecture, inclusive and flexible design, and the integration of industry and future skills to deliver coherent, future ready curriculums for students.
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What I value most about QAA’s support is its ability to create the conditions for collaboration, reflection, and enhancement across the sector. My work now reflects genuinely developmental practice that improves teaching, learning, and broader forms of impact. QAA support has contributed to how I think about curriculum design, student engagement, work-based learning, and the role of higher education in addressing complex social and economic challenges.
Dr Fredrick Agboma, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, Liverpool John Moores University
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Find out more about the membership offer

Our brochure outlines how QAA membership can support your institution, with details around what is included for specific membership types available on the relevant pages below:

 

England
Nations
International

Your membership is about to get even better

 

You told us you want timely answers, usable guidance and a louder voice for quality. This year, membership gives you sharper intelligence, more influence and practical support you can put to work immediately:

 

  • More communities, more connection: Through new topic-focused peer groups and networking communities.
  • Improved Quality Academy: A scalable professional development pathway designed for everyone involved in quality.
  • A strengthened Membership Resources area: A redesigned, easier to navigate ‘My QAA’ digital library is on the way, built around your feedback.
The training has made a practical difference because I am more aware of the current regulatory frameworks across the UK and how they relate to what we do as a quality team. It has supported my professional development by boosting both my confidence and knowledge.

Jenna Brown, Quality and Regulation Coordinator, Wrexham University


A refreshed Global Insights package

Our improved Global Insights offer brings together a comprehensive suite of activities designed to give members a richer, more integrated understanding of international higher education. It provides a distinctive, future‑focused perspective which covers the full spectrum of global activity, delivering insights that cut across policy, practice, partnerships, mobility, and global engagement.

 

Discover what's included
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Combine with the UK TNE Quality Scheme to enhance all aspects of your international delivery

The refreshed scheme will continue directly on from the current QE-TNE scheme from the start of the new academic year in August 2026. Commissioned and supported by bodies across the sector, the new UK TNE Quality Scheme will deliver reports, insights, resources and training to support UK providers to:

  • enhance the quality of their TNE provision and TNE student experience
  • navigate country contexts
  • develop sustainable high-quality global partnerships.