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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. Any flavour as long as it’s vanilla. Rewards for all: wearing-out your mortarboard. It’s graduation season and not just on university campuses. There are more and more opportunities for young children to have their photograph taken wearing a mortarboard and gown and holding a fake scroll. This ritual provides recognition and praise for young children rather than threatening academic standards (! It’s an open secret in the ...
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Updates from the ARC Quality network and QAA Quality Matters (December 2016) | Exit Velocity
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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. Updates from the ARC Quality network and QAA Quality Matters (December 2016). This entry was posted on 11 December, 2016, in Conference Reports. And tagged Annual Provider Review. Much of this post follows-on from my blog post back in April 2016. And gives an update on some of the developments outlined in earlier consultations. QAA, 2016: 2). Develop a Degree Apprenticeships characteristics statement;. It’s not just the Qu...
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No progress on course transfer | Exit Velocity
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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. No progress on course transfer. This entry was posted on 22 December, 2016, in Academic standards. And tagged Call for evidence. On 20th December 2016 the Department for Education (DfE) published its ‘Findings from the Call for Evidence on Accelerated Courses and Switching University or Degree’. None of the student responses were available online. DfE, 1). There are no recommendations or follow-up actions identified in the d...
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TEF and the government’s PGT blind spot | Exit Velocity
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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. TEF and the government’s PGT blind spot. This entry was posted on 16 November, 2015, in Consumer Law. The Higher Education Green Paper,. Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice. Has received a significant amount of coverage and I would refer readers to the Wonkhe. Reference to postgraduates in the 105-page document is the signal that. 8216;In time, we would also like [the] TEF to be open...
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Conference Report: QAA Annual Conference 2016 ‘Right Touch’ | Exit Velocity
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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. Conference Report: QAA Annual Conference 2016 ‘Right Touch’. This entry was posted on 20 April, 2016, in Conference Reports. The main sector conference for quality assurance in higher education was held at the University of Birmingham last week amidst a backdrop of uncertainty about the future approach to quality assurance. These uncertainties affected the first event, a ‘. On day 2. The text of the speech can be found here.
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QSN (Quality:Strategy:Network) Conference, 1st-2nd October 2015 | Exit Velocity
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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. QSN (Quality:Strategy:Network) Conference, 1st-2nd October 2015. This entry was posted on 9 October, 2015, in Conference Reports. It’s autumn conference season but for me instead of Brighton or Manchester read Aston Conference Centre and the 10th annual QSN (Quality:Strategy:Network) conference. The theme of the conference,. Reflected the conference’s aim of taking a step back from the day-to-day to discuss the wider pictu...
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TEF and quality assessment, everything but the kitchen sink | Exit Velocity
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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. TEF and quality assessment, everything but the kitchen sink. This entry was posted on 4 October, 2016, in Review Methods. The blog is back now from an. Summer break to look into the current state of HE Quality and what the future might hold. 8220;Quality assessment and the TEF form a coherent system”. DfE, 6) with a. 8220;move to risk-based regulation which will reduce the regulatory burden across the sector”. Additional context...
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Reading between the lines: changes to external reference points | Exit Velocity
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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. Reading between the lines: changes to external reference points. This entry was posted on 29 April, 2016, in HE General. And tagged Green Paper. Higher education has rarely known a steady state but the current uncertainty regarding the regulatory landscape is significant. 8220;sets out the Expectations that all UK higher education providers are required to meet”. It has several stated purposes including. These statements give th...
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Future approaches to external examining | Exit Velocity
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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. Future approaches to external examining. This entry was posted on 1 July, 2015, in Academic standards. And tagged External Examining. HEFCE’s consultation document, Future approaches to quality assessment in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is worth reiterating the stated aim of HEFCE’s review in this area, i.e. Therefore, the external examining system was considered alongside other mechanisms, such as institutional revie...
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Rewards for all: wearing-out your mortarboard | Exit Velocity
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Opinion pieces on Quality in Higher Education. About the Exit Velocity blog. Rewards for all: wearing-out your mortarboard. This entry was posted on 16 July, 2015, in HE Off-topic. It’s graduation season and not just on university campuses. There are more and more opportunities for young children to have their photograph taken wearing a mortarboard and gown and holding a fake scroll. This ritual provides recognition and praise for young children rather than threatening academic standards (! There are oth...
