Douglas Blackstock delivers keynote address at UK/China Joint Institute Alliance Virtual AGM

On 24 November 2020, Douglas Blackstock, Chief Executive at QAA, gave the keynote address at the UK/China Joint Institute Alliance Virtual AGM. His speech focused on partnerships between the UK and China in higher education. Douglas explored QAA’s international partnership work in China and also explained QAA’s role in safeguarding standards and quality across the UK, for transnational and for international higher education, and shared examples of how QAA has worked in partnership to raise awareness of how standards can be secured, quality can be assured and providers can be supported in a challenging time. He also spoke about the new method for transnational education (TNE) review.