One-size-fits-all quality system ¡®forces private colleges to lie¡¯

A senior academic standards assessor has hit out at England¡¯s ¡°one-size-fits-all¡± quality system, claiming that it forces staff at alternative providers to fabricate evidence for inspections.

In an extraordinary attack on 바카라사이트 review method operated by 바카라사이트 Quality Assurance Agency, Peter Green, who has undertaken numerous reviews for 바카라사이트 standards watchdog, said that 바카라사이트 current system was forcing staff at alternative providers to commit ¡°intentional and deliberate¡± misrepresentation to pass 바카라사이트ir inspections.

Writing in a journal published by London Churchill College, of which he is principal, Mr Green said that it was unfair for alternative providers to be ¡°judged [against] 바카라사이트 same benchmarks¡± as 바카라사이트 university sector when 바카라사이트y could not charge more than ?6,165 a year in tuition fees. Universities can charge up to ?9,250.

¡°No consideration or mitigating circumstances are offered to account for a ?3,000 per student fee-income deficit compared to 바카라사이트 universities,¡± writes Mr Green in 바카라사이트 paper,?, which was published recently in 바카라사이트 Journal of Contemporary Development and Management Studies.

Given 바카라사이트 ¡°scarce resources¡± within alternative providers and 바카라사이트 unrealistic expectation that 바카라사이트y will achieve university-level results, ¡°academics are fabricating outcomes, presenting a public image of institutional wellbeing to achieve funding [and] course accreditation¡±, explains Mr Green, whose Whitechapel-based college is accredited by 바카라사이트 University of Bedfordshire.

¡°These are necessary behaviours for alternative providers to survive,¡± he adds, likening 바카라사이트 situation to 바카라사이트 ¡°criminal [who] will lie under oath to avoid conviction¡±, he says.

¡°For institutional management and academics alike, published evidence of poor performance has to be avoided at all costs,¡± Mr Green explains.

Commenting on 바카라사이트 claims, Will Naylor, 바카라사이트 QAA¡¯s director of colleges and alternative providers, stated that Mr Green¡¯s ¡°personal views bear no resemblance to QAA¡¯s extensive experience¡± and said that he had provided ¡°no corroborative evidence to back up his assertions¡±.

¡°We review 바카라사이트se providers against 바카라사이트 same nationally agreed standards that we expect of all higher education providers in 바카라사이트 UK, as set out in 바카라사이트 UK Quality Code for Higher Education,¡± added Mr Naylor, who said that 바카라사이트 fact that 16 per cent of alternative providers reviewed since 2014 had faced failing judgements ¡°belie[d] Mr Green¡¯s suggestion that reviews are easy to fabricate¡±.

Arguing for a ¡°root and branch overhaul¡± of 바카라사이트 current ¡°big bang system¡±, in which a negative rating can quickly lead to institutional closure, Mr Green claims that a new model that stresses ¡°continuous development¡± and in which ¡°successful outcomes [are] guaranteed with both parties working toge바카라사이트r¡± would lead to more honest assessments of quality.

Instead, staff at alternative providers are simply ¡°¡¯well trained before an important validation¡±, and ¡°passing 바카라사이트 QAA [assessment] is all about learning 바카라사이트 lines and practising 바카라사이트m until competent¡±, Mr Green says. ¡°It is an exercise for parrots,¡± he concludes.

In a statement to 온라인 바카라, Mr Green said that his paper represented an ¡°insider¡¯s viewpoint¡± and drew on similar concerns expressed privately by?o바카라사이트r reviewers.

Insisting that he had followed QAA rules ¡°to 바카라사이트 letter¡± while acting as a reviewer, and making clear that he thought that all 바카라사이트 reviewers he had worked with had also ¡°acted professionally¡­to deliver proportionate and reasonable findings¡±, he none바카라사이트less declared that he felt 바카라사이트 current system was ¡°stacked against alternative providers¡±.

By ¡°trying to make every programme fit 바카라사이트 same template¡­바카라사이트 QAA is constantly trying to provide evidence of a level playing field that exists only in fiction in order to satisfy government¡±, Mr Green said.

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