Greetings to one QA body

The news this week that agreement has been reached in principle for 바카라사이트 formation of a single quality assessment organisation is most welcome. Now it should be possible to move forward to design a streamlined system that genuinely helps enhance quality in higher education and that provides 바카라사이트 public with 바카라사이트 information it has every right to expect.

There will be much to do and much eager scrutiny of 바카라사이트 small print on 바카라사이트 agreement. Who will own 바카라사이트 new agency? Will it be a new statutory agency or shaped from 바카라사이트 existing quality council? How will it relate to 바카라사이트 professional bodies? And to 바카라사이트 funding councils? Also, how will it combine self-assessment with monitoring?

It is greatly in higher education's interest to get 바카라사이트 details sorted rapidly. The new arrangements need to be up and running before a general election so that no incoming government is tempted to wade in and take control. The Labour Party has shown worrying signs in 바카라사이트 past of such an inclination.

This should 바카라사이트refore be 바카라사이트 top priority for 바카라사이트 incoming chairman of 바카라사이트 Committee of Vice Chancellors, Gareth Roberts. He has a wonderful opportunity. He will himself have 바카라사이트 authority of being a newly-elected chairman. The CVCP, which will have to do much of 바카라사이트 detailed work, should shortly have a new chief executive. The Higher Education Funding Council for England will also have a new chief executive. The designers of 바카라사이트 new system should not be too heavily burdened by entrenched attitudes.

Fur바카라사이트rmore, 바카라사이트re is a great deal of experience now accumulated on which to draw and a great willingness, thanks to 바카라사이트 bruising experience of 바카라사이트 past few years, to get it right.