Micro-credentials good practice: A tertiary view from Scotland
17/11/2023 - Dr Anne Tierney, Deputy Chair of the Scottish Tertiary Education Network for Micro-credentials
We have expertise in safeguarding academic standards and enhancing the quality of the student experience offered in Scotland wherever and however delivered. We promote excellent, responsive and inspiring learning provided in partnership with students.
New for 2023-24
Tertiary Quality Project
QAA is delighted to have been commissioned by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) to lead key areas of Scotland’s Tertiary Quality Project (TQP). The TQP involves the development and delivery of a common approach to assuring and enhancing quality in Scotland’s tertiary sector from academic year 2024-25.
We are leading on two important project workstreams in collaboration with the SFC, sector agencies, and staff and students from Scotland’s colleges and universities.
Quality arrangements for 2023-24
Our current external review method is Quality Enhancement and Standards Review (QESR), operating until academic year 2024-25.
The Tertiary Enhancement Topic is 'The future of learning and teaching: Defining and delivering an effective and inclusive digital/blended offering'.
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Evaluating 20 years of the Enhancement Themes
| Date: | June 4 - 2024 |
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QAA Scotland has published findings from the major evaluation work on 20 years of the Enhancement Themes.
If you have participated in the Enhancement Themes activity, are interested in the findings of a major 20-year evaluation of impact retrospective or want to know more about the policy implications of this work, these publications are for you.
A summary infographic provides five key messages for policymakers, while the executive summary offers a quick overview of our evaluation consultations’ work.
The full technical report captures all the details of the evaluators’ method, findings and calls to action for staff and students, higher education institutions and the Scottish sector. It also highlights the Enhancement Themes Theory of Change model developed by our evaluation consultants.
The evaluation documents are available on the Enhancement Themes website.
Alongside the evaluator’s findings, QAA Scotland has also published higher education institutions’ reports for the final year of the Resilient Learning Communities (RLC) Enhancement Theme and an overview of key outputs and outcomes from that Theme.
The RLC institutional reports and overview are also available on the Enhancement Themes website.
Blogs
Quality enhancement through collaboration, trust and empowerment (a celebration of the Scottish approach)
28/09/22 - Sir Paul Grice, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Past, present and future: Evaluating Enhancement Themes - a journey through space time?
10/08/22 - Clare Parks, Quality Enhancement Specialist, QAA Scotland
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