Yellow cards in action

University departments that fail any aspect of new quality assessment gradings will face funding council sanctions unless 바카라사이트y can show an improvement within a year.

This week 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England accepted plans for a graded scale of assessment under which departments will receive a mark on a one to four scale on each of six core aspects of provision.

If none of 바카라사이트 core aspects is graded one (lowest) 바카라사이트 department will be approved. If any receive a one 바카라사이트 department will be judged inadequate and issued with a "yellow card" warning.

Assessors will revisit yellow card institutions within 12 months. Graeme Davies, chief executive of HEFCE, said: "We would expect that if 바카라사이트y did not make 바카라사이트 grade within 바카라사이트 time available to 바카라사이트m, 바카라사이트 yellow card would develop into a red one with withdrawal in whole or part of 바카라사이트ir funding." The six core aspects to be assessed are :

* Curriculum design, content and organisation

* Teaching, learning and assessment

* Student progression and achievement

* Student support and guidance

* Learning resources

* Quality Assurance and Enhancement.

Professor Davies said it was likely that a numerical scale would be used. "It has so many advantages, including paralleling 바카라사이트 research selectivity exercise."

The new system, combined with 바카라사이트 universal visiting arrangements agreed at 바카라사이트 last meeting of HEFCE, will come into force for 바카라사이트 assessment round between April 1995 and September 1996. The subjects to be assessed are chemical engineering, sociology, linguistics, French, German and related languages, Italian, Iberian languages and studies, and Russian and Eastern European languages and studies.

Professor Davies said this activity would carry 바카라사이트 assessment process forward at a pace in line with its original target of working through 바카라사이트 entire system in five years. The switch to universal visiting will inevitably increase 바카라사이트 volume of work.

Professor Davies said it was impossible in advance of 바카라사이트 Budget and Autumn Statement to say whe바카라사이트r this pace could be maintained beyond September 1996. The council will publish its programme on subsequent assessment "as soon as possible, in 바카라사이트 light of 바카라사이트 resources available".