This project focuses on how institutions develop and support dynamic quality assurance processes.
UK HE providers face sustained and competing pressures that underpin the need to evaluate and enhance teaching and learning, course design, and portfolio in a timely manner. In addition, providers are constantly evolving whilst operating within a complex architecture of external regulation – this often results in QA processes which seem to suppress innovation and inhibit improvement. How providers balance these priorities is a relevant and timely question, and this project argues that the differences and commonalities between new and existing providers present an opportunity for timely comparative and evaluation work.
This project aims to identify the quality assurance domains that have the greatest impact on innovation. These may include:
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The project team will conduct a survey and focus groups to capture the relative impact of these quality assurance domains, and explore how they constrain and facilitate when institutions seek to innovate.
Publication date: 05 Oct 2023
The project will lead to the development of practical outputs to support the sector to adopt innovative and dynamic quality assurance processes including:
New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering
UCL, TEDI-London, Arden University and Arts University Bournemouth, Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology
QAA supports a number of projects every year, covering a range of topics and interest areas. Each is led by a QAA Member, working in collaboration with other members institutions. You can find more information on all projects, and access resources and outputs, on our website.
