The academic quality handbook : enhancing higher education in universities and further education colleges /: enhancing higher education in universities and further education colleges. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Patrick McGhee.
• Authors: McGhee, Patrick, 1962-
• Contents: Introduction -- Part 1: The quality -- 1 The Framework for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ) -- Use of the FHEQ 12; Implementing the precepts of the FHEQ 13; QAissues with the FHEQ -- 2 Benchmarking academic standards: the subject benchmark statements (SBSs) Aims and function 19; QA issues with SBSs 21; QE issues with SBSs -- 3 Institutional audit -- Aims objectives of institutional audit 24; Meaning -- consequences of audit outcomes 25; Discipline audit trails (DATs) -- Criteria for confidence judgements -- 4 Information on quality and standards in higher education quality and standards -- Management information 37; QA issues with information on quality and standards 41; QE issues with information on -- 5 Managing quality enhancement (QE) -- What is QE? 45; Regulatory and transparency dividends of QA for enhancement 48; Managing complex enhancements to quality -- Quality at the edge of chaos -- Part 2: Managing quality in the context of the QAA Code of Practice -- 6 The Code of Practice -- Structure of the Code’s sections -- 7 Collaborative provision -- Types of collaborative provision 64; Background to collaborative -- provision 66; How and why franchises go wrong 67; Implementing the -- precepts for collaborative provision 71; QA issues with collaborative -- provision 79; QE issues with collaborative provision -- 8 Students with disabilities -- The Code and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 -- (SENDA) 90; Comparing the Code’s precepts and the Act -- Implementing the precepts 83; QA issues with students with -- disabilities; QE issues with students with disabilities -- 9 External examining systems -- External examiners, quality and politics 106; Implementing the -- precepts 107; QA issues with external examining systems 115; QE -- issues with external examining systems -- 10 Academic appeals and student complaints -- The new culture of complaint management 119; Implementing the -- precepts 121; QA issues with student appeals and complaints -- QE issues with student appeals and complaints -- 11 The assessment of students -- The Achilles’ heel of quality 128; Implementing the precepts -- QAissues with the assessment of students 137; QE issues with the assessment of students -- 12 Programme approval, monitoring and review -- The metacode 140; Managing quality in approval, monitoring and -- review (AMR) 141; The approval process 145; Implementing the -- precepts 146; QA issues with AMR; QE issues with AMR -- 13 Career education information and guidance (CEIG) -- From guidance to employability 161; Organizational issues in -- supporting CEIG 162; Progress files 163; Scope and focus of CEIG – -- enhancement issues 163; Implementing the precepts 165; QA issues with CEIG; QE issues with CEIG -- 14 Placement learning -- From industrial sandwich to SME consultancy 171; Balancing QA and -- QE in placement management 173; Implementing the -- precepts 174; QA issues with placement learning 182; QE issues with placement learning -- 15 Recruitment and admission of students -- From elitism to diversity 185; Implementing the precepts 186; QA -- issues with recruitment and admissions 191; QE issues with recruitment and admissions -- 16 Distance learning -- Distance learning and academic standards 194; Types of distance -- learning and implications for QA and QE 195; Implementing the -- guidelines 197; QA issues with distance learning 204; QE issues with distance learning -- 17 Quality assurance and research degree programmes -- The HEFCE framework: improving standards in postgraduate research -- degree programmes 208; The QAA Code of Practice: postgraduate research programmes 213; QA issues with research degree programmes 224; QE issues in research degree programmes -- 18 Quality issues in foundation degrees -- Background 227; Foundation degrees and QA 228; QA issues foundation degrees 236; QE and foundation degrees -- Appendix 1: Useful contacts -- Appendix 2: Action planner, Log of key learning and development points -- References -- Further reading -- Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 378.107; Universities and colleges -- Standards; Universities and colleges -- Administration
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000159158
• Related ISBNs: 9781000107845; 9781000137071; 9781003071426
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