QAA International Membership

QAA International Membership provides vision, expertise and guidance on the topics that matter to your staff and students. It ensures your university or college is well equipped to face the opportunities and challenges of a rapidly changing global higher education environment.

We work in partnership with, and for, all our members to deliver high-quality services that:

safeguard academic standards and champion academic integrity
enhance the quality of the student learning experience, wherever students are studying.

There are two tiers of QAA International Membership:

Full International Membership offers access to a comprehensive range of services and expertise including resources, guidance, staff training, networking opportunities, briefings and entitlement to display the QAA International Membership Badge. Full Membership is available only to those institutions who have achieved International Quality Review (IQR) accreditation from QAA.

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International Associate Membership delivers a valuable but less extensive range of resources, guidance, staff training and networking opportunities for higher education institutions who don’t yet have IQR accreditation but are recognised by their local quality agency. International Associate Members are not eligible to use the QAA International Membership Badge.

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Gulnoza Primkulova
Chief Specialist of Quality Assurance of Education, Tashkent State University of Law

The main purpose of TSUL's decision to join QAA Membership is to improve the quality of education and the quality of personnel training, while also modernising the educational process and its administration based on international standards. The helpful workshops, briefings, and access to events that international membership offers will contribute to improving educational quality and provide guidance on how to meet ESG standards.

As a QAA International Member, you will benefit from:

informative, timely and responsive quality enhancement resources designed to support you in improving your provision
opportunities for staff development
a programme of activities that offers opportunities to learn from international colleagues through sharing of the best of international practice.

For those institutions with, or seeking to establish, UK partnerships it will provide opportunities to make new connections and develop knowledge about the UK higher education system.

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Lead a Collaborative Enhancement Project

QAA International Members and International Associate Members can also submit a proposal to lead a QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project (CEP), which offers funding for groups of member institutions to work together to explore areas of shared interest and engage students. Find out more in the International Members section.

International Collaborative Enhancement Projects

In 2022-23 we funded a project led by Gulf Medical School (UAE), in partnership with the University of West Indies and the University of Bradford in the UK. It looked at Developing patient consultation observed structured clinical examination for evaluating cultural sensitivity competences in pharmacy students.

This calendar provides an indicative schedule of the key events and resources that are part of the International Membership Programme.