QSN is a membership organisation for staff with responsibility for quality strategy and management within UK higher education. It provides a forum for the discussion of key issues of quality management and enhancement, and organises an annual Conference and smaller symposium events to discuss specific areas of interest.
Several institutions are looking critically at their current processes for module evaluation and are fundamentally rethinking their approach. At this meeting, we will hear from colleagues who are developing alternative models to module and programme evaluation, which variously seek to engage students more positively in the enhancement of their learning experience, increase students’ awareness of the outcomes from their evaluation,
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The transformation of the quality management landscape continues with great rapidity and intensity in a sector buffeted by daily media headlines and in the midst of potentially seismic changes affecting the sector as a whole. As the new regulator for English Higher Education, the Office for Students continues to adopt a bold, student-focused, risk-based approach, reflecting
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Information about student finance can be hard to find. Graeme Atherton introduces a report on how we fix that
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The Labour Party heavily promotes the idea of a National Education Service, but how would it be built? David Kernohan digs into the details
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Getting governance right remains a critical issue for universities, and Paul Greatrix has been reading a book on that very subject
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What’s really driving changes to the student accommodation market, and what should we do about it? Jim Dickinson on the rise of so-called “luxury” digs and the need for a national strategy
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Addressing student mental health is a wicked problem for universities. Leigh Spanner and Gareth Hughes of Student Minds introduce the new University Mental Health Charter as a guide to solving it
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Mark Corver presents a new way of thinking about the grade inflation debate which questions the government’s claim that too many students are getting good degrees
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Will voters in a particular age group have a decisive role to play in the coming election? Yes, says DK, but not the generation you might expect.
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Global education is the way forward to a better and more progressive world – and students will be campaigning for it up to and beyond polling day, says Erica Ramos
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