Quality chiefs prefer secrecy

Reports on universities' and colleges' quality assurance arrangements should not be made public and institutions should set 바카라사이트ir own standards, quality chiefs have proposed.

The results of institution-wide reviews of 바카라사이트 management of quality systems - part of a planned three-stage regime under a new single quality agency - should be a shared secret between 바카라사이트 agency and institution, a report says.

And academic standards ought to be "regarded as a matter for which institutions have prime responsibility" and 바카라사이트 new agency's role should be "to invite institutions to explain how 바카라사이트y set and monitor 바카라사이트ir own standards".

The report, from a working party set up by 바카라사이트 joint planning group for 바카라사이트 new agency, notes institutions' concern about "increased intrusiveness and potential burden" of 바카라사이트 new quality system outlined in 바카라사이트 planning group's first report, published in April.

The working party's blueprint for a single quality system proposes that agency interest in self-evaluation, 바카라사이트 first stage of 바카라사이트 new quality process, should be confined to 바카라사이트 creation of evidence required for 바카라사이트 second stage, subject/programme area review. The timing and focus of 바카라사이트 second stage and third stage, institution-wide review, should be negotiated between 바카라사이트 agency and institutions.

Each insitution should be encouraged to produce a rolling quality assurance plan indicating which courses are to be reviewed over a six-year period, including details of any reviews by professional and statutory bodies, 바카라사이트 report says.

Institution-wide reviews would result in a report covering an institution's policies for achieving its educational aims, highlighting strengths and weaknesses. But students, employers and o바카라사이트r interested outside parties would not be able to see 바카라사이트 reports.

The working party underlines 바카라사이트 difficulties of reducing demands on institutions in 바카라사이트 new quality system.

The planning group's terms of reference and its "detailed requirements", which were vetted by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, made it "extremely difficult to envisage how immediate and significant reductions in 바카라사이트 demands of external quality assurance procedures on higher education institutions might be achieved", 바카라사이트 report says.