QAA membership brochure 2026-27
Publication date: 14 Apr 2026
Helping you put quality into practice to build capacity, drive efficiencies and enhance the student experience
QAA membership gives you the expert guidance, resources, professional development and networking opportunities your institution needs to enhance quality, uphold academic standards and improve the student learning experience.
Through events, funded projects and practical opportunities to learn with others, we help you meet regulatory requirements, respond confidently to sector change and support your teams to embed effective, consistent quality practice.
Delivering impact across your whole institution
As a member, you gain access to exclusive events, workshops and ready-to-use resources that help you anticipate challenges and demonstrate your commitment to quality. Your membership has real sector-wide impact, funding collaborative projects and resources that drive innovation and solve common issues. By joining us, you become part of a collective voice that informs key decisions and drives the quality agenda forward. QAA’s support translates into clear benefits across your institution:
- Insight that strengthens your strategy: Helping you make informed decisions and plan with confidence.
- Tools that make quality work easier: Reducing duplication and freeing capacity across your teams.
- Efficiency that reduces risk: Enabling rapid understanding of new developments without reinventing solutions.
- A community that accelerates your progress: Giving you access to peers who are solving the same challenges.
- Influence that shapes the sector: Creating ways for you to shape work that defines what good looks like across the sector.
We make regular use of QAA sector resources, including outputs from Collaborative Enhancement Projects, webinars, and sector briefings. The higher education landscape moves fast, so these offer valuable insight into emerging themes along with practical examples of how other institutions are responding. It helps us move from 'compliance' to 'enhancement', ensuring we are always bringing fresh, sector-leading ideas back to the institution.
Carly Rees, Quality and Academic Services Manager, University of South Wales
What’s included in your membership
QAA membership gives you sharper insights, more influence and practical support you can act on immediately. Activities delivered through membership are designed to help institutions respond confidently to change and improve quality processes:
- Training and workshops
- Practical networks and peer groups
- Insight and guidance
- Implementation resources
- Quality conferences
- Collaborative Enhancement Projects.
Full details about what is included for specific membership types are available below:
What our members say
Continuous improvement and embedding quality
QAA membership gives us a structured framework for continuous improvement, practical guidance for internal QA, and the confidence that our work is trusted and respected. Most importantly, it helps embed quality in everything we do, directly benefiting our students.Dr Craig Ruddock, Director of Quality and Curriculum, Goldsmiths, University of London
Connecting with peers and collaborating on solutions
The value I get from the networking community is having a trusted space to test my thinking with peers facing similar challenges. Being able to explore ideas without fear of judgement, and build on each other’s experience and feedback, has been invaluable to me.Professor John Murray, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), University of Huddersfield
Tackling key sector challenges through focused support
One of the most valuable aspects of QAA membership has been access to resources on the ethical use of Generative AI, which directly supported us to develop our AI policy, create clear guidelines, and deliver staff and student training. This has enabled us to embed AI responsibly and confidently across our courses and programmes.Dr Eman Mohamed, Dean of Quality Assurance, Effat University
Read more of our case studies and discover how institutions have benefited from becoming QAA members.