This document details QAA's response to the Office for Students' consultation on its new strategy for 2025 to 2030, including its proposals for an integrated quality model and a quality risk register.
Publication date: 20 Feb 2025
This paper examines the relationship between quality and the current English higher education funding landscape in the context of ongoing inflationary pressures.
Publication date: 20 Mar 2024
This paper argues that the English quality system can maintain internationally agreed and UK-wide principles of quality while still operating a risk-based quality approach.
Publication date: 16 Nov 2023
This policy paper considers how international trust in English higher education benefits the sector and what can be done to preserve and reinforce it.
Publication date: 25 Oct 2023
This report looks at how to strengthen the system that oversees quality in English higher education to ensure it is fit for the future.
Publication date: 18 Sep 2023
This short document is designed to help policymakers and other stakeholders understand what is meant by ‘quality’ in UK higher education.
Publication date: 11 Sep 2023
This report considers provider, employer and apprentice expectations of quality, and how the system in England can better facilitate high-quality degree apprenticeships commensurate with the political ambitions held of them.
Publication date: 26 Mar 2024
Building on our previous research which charted the current state of play on credit transfer across the UK, this new study examines why it is that way and what might be done to instigate change.
Publication date: 24 Mar 2025
This comprehensive review of credit transfer policies across UK higher education institutions includes analysis of the barriers present in the current system and recommendations for both providers and policymakers to address them.
Publication date: 10 Sep 2024
This paper sets out what changes can be made to realise the Lifelong Learning Entitlement's potential and deliver the vision of a widespread, skills rich, lifelong learning system.
Publication date: 02 Nov 2023
This report presents a comprehensive qualitative analysis of provider submissions and panel statements, broken down by features of excellence. It is designed to demonstrate the extent of work happening within the sector, extracting key themes and areas of learning from what has been recognised as outstanding practice, to support the sector in preparing for the next iteration of the TEF and also the broader enhancement of their provision.
Publication date: 01 May 2024
QAA's Helena Vine discusses how the TEF can debunk the biggest myths about higher education.
This analysis by Professor Claire Pike from Anglia Ruskin University looks at the extent to which evidence submitted in narrative submissions appears to have a material, potentially transformational, effect upon provider outcomes - and whether these effects (positive or negative) were equally distributed among provider types and geographies.
Publication date: 14 May 2024
Professor Claire Pike from Anglia Ruskin University discusses the persuasive power of TEF 2023 submissions from a quantitative analysis of provider outcomes.
This document details QAA's response to the Department for Education’s consultation on franchising in higher education.
Publication date: 09 Apr 2025
This report examines areas of good practice and offers recommendations for improvement relating to collaborative provision. It analyses lessons learned from QAA reviews, focusing on three key themes: robust oversight, constructive relationships and a coherent student experience.
Publication date: 04 Oct 2024
This edition of Quality Compass looks at how franchised provision can extend the reach of the educational offer and enhance the student experience. It explores how organisations can consider issues of strategic direction, due diligence and contractual arrangements in the establishment of franchise provision, and offers advice on academic standards, governance, quality assurance and regulatory compliance, as well as communication, liaison and link tutor mechanisms. It also examines strategies to recognise and mitigate risks, including through the early identification of issues, attendance monitoring and ensuring academic integrity - and actions that can be taken if things don't go quite as well as had been hoped.
Publication date: 09 Jul 2024
This edition of Quality Compass considers implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for the UK higher education sector, where the challenges lie and how they might be addressed. Reflections from a range of colleagues highlight the opportunities presented by Generative Artificial Intelligence and how it could be harnessed to help address some of HE’s stubborn issues.
Publication date: 19 Feb 2024
