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.
The launch of the Office for Students in April 2018, preceded by publication of the new regulatory framework for England and a revised UK Quality Code, has brought with it a change of emphasis in which protecting the student interest is clearly at the top of the new regulator’s agenda. With contributions from sector representatives […]
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David Kernohan goes beyond the press summary and dives into the latest LEO release. There’s interactive visualisations for you all.
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A possibly fruitless ranking of the worst rankings of universities to be found anywhere.
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Why are sciences and humanities seen as separate anyway? asks the Royal Society’s Tom McLeish.
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We explore what it means to be a civic university in 2018 and what this agenda now holds for HE.
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HEPI’s Nick Hillman says that the universities of Oxford and Cambridge are different and that the whole higher education sector can learn from this.
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Tim Blackman, Vice Chancellor of Middlesex University, spells out why he is so supportive of the idea of degree apprenticeships
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