Quality Enhancement and Standards Review (QESR) was the review method for higher education institutions in Scotland for the academic sessions 2022-23 and 2023-24. It formed Phase 1 of a two-phase approach to external institutional quality review developed within the context of a major Scottish Funding Council (SFC) review, 'Coherent Provision and Sustainability: A Review of Tertiary Education and Research'.
Within Phase 1 of the developing quality enhancement arrangements, QESR focused on a higher education institution’s management of its academic quality and standards and how that institution's processes embed an enhancement-led approach to improving learning, teaching and the wider student experience.
QESR also considered an institution’s outcome under the previous review method, Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR), and the subsequent activity to address the findings.
QESR was complemented in Phase 1 by Institutional Liaison Meetings (ILM).
More information about QESR and ILM, and the previous ELIR review method, is available on the QAA Scotland website.
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Compliance with the ESG
The Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) provide the framework for internal and external quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area. QAA’s review methods are compliant with these standards, as are the reports we publish. More information is available on our website.
Tertiary Quality Enhancement Review
TQER is the new quality assurance and enhancement review method for further and higher education provision in colleges and universities across Scotland. Find out more about TQER.