QAA International Membership Calendar of Events and Publications 2024-25
Publication date: 17 Apr 2025
QAA International Membership provides vision, expertise and guidance on the topics that matter to your staff and students, ensuring your institution is well equipped to face the opportunities and challenges of a rapidly changing global higher education environment.
We collaborate with our members to deliver high-quality services that:
- safeguard academic standards and champion academic integrity
- enhance the quality of the student learning experience, regardless of where students are studying
- support continuous improvement in quality assurance practices.
Benefits of QAA Membership
Find out more about the support and resources provided by QAA Membership that help your institution to excel and innovate.
Membership themes in 2025-26
In 2025-26, we will be focusing on providing guidance and resources on the following areas:
- Supporting high-quality teaching and learning
- Innovation in delivery
- Maintaining quality in challenging times.
Dr Hanadi Kadbey
Head - Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Emirates College for Advanced Studies
By being a QAA International Member, ECAE is better placed to strengthen our network of higher education quality assurance professionals in the UK and around the world. We have access to the latest international thinking and can remain up to date with international best practices, using this to inform and shape our quality assurance systems and processes.
Types of QAA International Membership
There are two tiers of QAA International Membership:
Full 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 that have achieved International Quality Review (IQR) accreditation from QAA.
International Associate Membership
International Associate Membership delivers a valuable but less extensive range of resources, guidance, staff training and networking opportunities for higher education institutions that 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.
What to expect from your QAA Membership
QAA International Membership is an investment in the quality and standards of your institution. Find out more about the benefits of being a QAA Member:
Amplifying your voice
We have close relationships with institutions, quality agencies and partner bodies in the UK and internationally, sharing the expertise of QAA Members on a global stage.
Developing your skills & networks
We work in partnership with institutions to support you with enhancement while respecting your autonomy and the diversity of the international higher education sector. Collaborative by design, QAA Membership thrives on building effective relationships, creating meaningful opportunities to network and engage with the wider sector, and helping to develop skills and experience across your whole institution.
Enhancing your knowledge & practice
With nearly 30 years of expertise as a world-leading impartial, independent quality body, QAA has helped establish quality systems around the globe. We can confidently support you to make practices and processes more efficient and effective, and to maximise the impact from using our toolkits, guidance documents and policy and strategy briefings.
Addressing your priorities
The overarching themes of QAA Membership are crafted to tackle significant sector challenges head on. We engage with you and your colleagues to understand your unique position and to support you to achieve meaningful change.
Membership activity in 2024-25
Outputs relating to this year’s membership themes can be found within our Sector resources area; and all upcoming events, networks and training are available here.
Our membership calendar provides a schedule of the key events and resources that are part of our membership programme. These activities support the delivery of our membership themes and topics and the wider work we do with our members to safeguard academic standards and enhance the student learning experience around the world.
International Membership Workshop
These workshops explore how member institutions can develop and maintain a quality culture, the associated processes for internal quality assurance of higher education provision, and how these can
support institutions with external quality assessment processes.
International Membership Network
Our International Membership Network meets three times a year and provides an opportunity for International Members to come together to hear updates from QAA, and to discuss quality and enhancement
topics of relevance to our members.
Membership Resources site
All staff and students in QAA Member institutions can access our Membership Resources site. The site gives access to a wealth of resources including briefings, case studies, country reports, research outcomes, and materials relating to our events.
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