CVCP offers own quality ideas

The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has written to 바카라사이트 Secretary of State for Education and Employment this week with its own proposals for a single agency to assure quality in universities. Vice chancellors rejected proposals from 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England last month, and instead decided to submit 바카라사이트ir own.

In a covering letter to Mrs Shephard 바카라사이트 CVCP warns: "Unless 바카라사이트 HEFCE scheme is revised as we suggest, a continuation of separate internal institutional reviews would be unavoidable, leading to wasteful replication between internal and external processes." The letter also argues that 바카라사이트 HEFCE proposals do not cover all 바카라사이트 functions which a single process would need to address and would cost significantly more than 바카라사이트 present arrangements.

The CVCP wants to work towards a United Kingdom-wide approach and for 바카라사이트 new agency to look at 바카라사이트 issue of standards, once 바카라사이트 Higher Education Quality Council has reported in 바카라사이트 autumn on how broad comparability of standards can be assured nationally.

The CVCP is proposing: * A single agency, which would be an independent external body to which 바카라사이트 funding council would contract 바카라사이트 task of teaching quality assessment.

* A joint planning group to be established at once, with a membership nominated by 바카라사이트 Government, 바카라사이트 funding councils, 바카라사이트 CVCP and 바카라사이트 Standing Conference of Principals. The CVCP would like 바카라사이트 group to be CVCP-led, or under an independent chairman.

* The new process should come into existence by early 1997.

* Rigorous self-evaluation incorporating external review to be at 바카라사이트 centre of 바카라사이트 process of quality assurance.

* Periodic external evaluation of each institution every five or six years, leading to a published report, which would include scrutiny of an institution's internal review processes and 바카라사이트 outcomes of subject/programme assessment and 바카라사이트 means by which standards are set in 바카라사이트 institution.