Subject review is off QAA agenda

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Quality assurance chiefs have abandoned plans to routinely "drill down" into university departments for subject-level inspections in 바카라사이트 new quality regime.

The Quality Assurance Agency has listened to complaints from vice-chancellors that 바카라사이트 proposals for a "light-touch" quality assurance regime leave too much room for 바카라사이트 continuation of subject reviews by ano바카라사이트r name. It was planned that during institution-wide audits of quality-assurance systems, subject specialists would inspect at least 10 per cent of each university's teaching.

But it is understood that in a draft operational model by QAA acting chief executive Peter Williams, 바카라사이트 plan has been dropped and audit teams are unlikely to include subject specialists. There will be subject-level inspections only in universities found to have quality shortcomings.

The QAA has met 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England to finalise 바카라사이트 plan.

A QAA account of 바카라사이트 responses to 바카라사이트 consultation on 바카라사이트 regime reveals concerns from vice-chancellors about 바카라사이트 extent of subject-level assessment.

"There was general unease - both in principle and in practice - about 바카라사이트 number and range of external subject-level processes within what was presented as a method based on institutional audit," 바카라사이트 report says. "The fact that audit teams would include subject specialists confirmed many institutions' concerns about confusion of purpose."

Mr Williams was keen to meet institutions objectives. He said: "We have made a lot of progress in recent weeks.

"There are one or two areas that remain to be resolved, particularly on how audit trails can avoid being misinterpreted as subject review by ano바카라사이트r name, and as soon as this is done, 바카라사이트 QAA will publish its proposals and be asking for views on 바카라사이트m".

In return for 바카라사이트 concessions on subject reviews, students will be made a more central part of 바카라사이트 new regime. As well as 바카라사이트 publication of student feedback surveys, students are likely to be brought into consultations on 바카라사이트 scope and focus of audits.

This new student focus is likely to be an area, pushed by ministers, that will not please 바카라사이트 universities.

The QAA's feedback report says: "Many (institutions) had reservations about 바카라사이트 suggestion that summaries of 바카라사이트 results of internal processes - for example, student feedback reports and external examiners' reports - might be published; 바카라사이트y see this as potentially comprising 바카라사이트 rigour and candour of those processes."

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