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.
In association with ARC and AHEP, will be hosting a webinar on Thursday 25th April between 13:00-15:00. The “problem with the University’s reliance on its own Regulations and policies… was that they are not the law. They were subject to the law, including the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.” (Mr Justice Lindon, Feb 2024). In a landmark case in February 2024,
This session will provide an opportunity to reflect on our experiences of having gone through TEF. We will then consider where, as QA professionals, we need to focus our attention going forward, both regards a future TEF exercise and more immediately how it has impacted on approaches to quality assurance. In this session we will hear from Professor Sean Wellington
This symposium is designed to bring together QSN member institutions to discuss, debate, and shape the future of artificial intelligence in academia. As we stand at the cusp of a new era in education technology, Generative AI has emerged as a ground breaking tool with the potential to revolutionise teaching methods, research practices, and the overall learning experience. This symposium aims
Save the date We're pleased to inform you that QSN will be hosting its 17th Annual Conferenced 12-13th September 2024, Conference Aston, Birmingham Please note registration is not yet available
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This week on the podcast a parliamentary report calls for changes to regulation on franchising. Does it go far enough?
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The open access policy for REF2029 is still up for debate. Dinah Birch and Steven Hill are open to change on open access
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The open access policy for REF 2029 is still up for debate. Dinah Birch and Steven Hill are open to change on open access
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Where did all the students go, and can we get them back? Wonkhe’s new Community and Policy Officer Mack Marshall argues that working out who the “we” is going to be essential to fix the sector’s engagement problem
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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag takes us to Durham’s first mixed-sex college
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Equality in the workplace is built on equality in the home. Rose Stephenson makes the case for more higher education institutions to go further on paternity pay
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Christina Boswell and Chris Pearce explain why the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow have adopted the environmental sustainability concordat, and how the sector can go even further
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The Public Accounts Committee makes all the right noises, but David Kernohan isn’t spotting anything that will really shift the dial on franchise fraud
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