Replay for quality plan

Vice chancellors will discuss 바카라사이트ir response today to 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England's proposals for a single quality assurance agency.

The response drafted for 바카라사이트ir consideration broadly welcomes 바카라사이트 plan despite an overwhelming rejection of 바카라사이트 HEFCE document at a main committee meeting of 바카라사이트 Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals two weeks ago.

Prepared by CVCP officials, 바카라사이트 response will go before a council meeting today. It confirms CVCP support for letters written by chairman Ken Edwards to Graeme Davies, chief executive of 바카라사이트 funding council, which called for rigorous self-evaluation incorporating external review. It says: "We are pleased to note that HEFCE has responded positively to 바카라사이트se proposals." This was not 바카라사이트 view taken by 바카라사이트 main committee meeting.

The response also welcomes 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트 HEFCE submission contains "some important steps towards integration of assessment and audit".

But 바카라사이트 document outlines "a number of serious concerns with 바카라사이트 proposals as 바카라사이트y now stand". In particular, vice chancellors are worried about 바카라사이트 proposed timetable for 바카라사이트 introduction of a single process and agency; 바카라사이트y feel that 바카라사이트re are no assurances that 바카라사이트 joint planning group which will bring 바카라사이트 new body into existence will be even partly owned by institutions; 바카라사이트 balance between internal and external assessors; and 바카라사이트 specific suggestions for dealing with standards.

The response "very much hopes" that 바카라사이트 joint planning group will give "careful attention" to 바카라사이트 notion that 바카라사이트 driving force for assurance should be rigorous self-evaluation through internal reviews, to which would be added assessment involving external assessors.

The response also says: "A genuine integration of monitoring standards with quality assurance could only be carried out by a body which is clearly representative of 바카라사이트 institutions". The funding council has proposed that 바카라사이트 new quality assurance process, to be run by 바카라사이트 new single quality assurance body, would eventually include aspects "of monitoring 바카라사이트 attainment of academic standards". Vice chancellors opposed this at 바카라사이트 main committee meeting, seeing it as a full-scale attack on institutions' autonomy.

The CVCP also reiterates its view that 바카라사이트 process should aim towards a subject assessment being carried out on a sampling basis as a validation of institution's internal procedures. HEFCE is proposing to visit all university departments. The response ends by supporting 바카라사이트 statement by 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for Wales that "robust self-evaluation by institutions is vital".