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UK Quality Code Chapter B2 : Recruitment, selection and admission to higher education

The UK Quality Code and Higher Education Reviews Admissions Policy and the QAA Quality Code – Are you ready? Catherine Kerfoot, Development Officer, QAA. UK Quality Code Chapter B2 : Recruitment, selection and admission to higher education . 22 July 2014. Cathy Kerfoot QAA.

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UK Quality Code Chapter B2 : Recruitment, selection and admission to higher education

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  1. The UK Quality Code and Higher Education Reviews Admissions Policy and the QAA Quality Code – Are you ready? Catherine Kerfoot, Development Officer, QAA

  2. UK Quality Code Chapter B2: Recruitment, selection and admission to higher education 22 July 2014 Cathy Kerfoot QAA

  3. The UK Quality Code Part B, Chapter 2: Recruitment, selection and admission to higher education

  4. Development process • Up to December 2011 – The Code of Practice, Section 10: Admissions to Higher Education • Since December 2011 – the UK Quality Code Chapter B2: Admissions (repackaged version of Section 10, content broadly the same) • Now published and current for the purpose of review from September 2014 – UK Quality Code Chapter B2: Recruitment, selection and admission to higher education(restructured, revised, updated)

  5. What’s new? • The title • Introduction • Structure: • General principles • Stages of the process • Explanatory information • But everything building on what was there before

  6. The Expectation Recruitment, selection and admission policies and procedures adhere to the principles of fair admission. They are transparent, reliable, valid, inclusive and underpinned by appropriate organisational structures and processes. They support higher education providers in the selection of students who are able to complete their programme.

  7. Chapters of the Code Part A: Setting and maintaining academic standards Part C: Information about higher education provision Part B: Assuring and enhancing academic quality B1: Programme design, development and approval B2: Recruitment, selection and admission to higher education B3: Learning and teaching B4: Enabling student development and achievement B5: Student engagement B6: Assessment of students and the recognition of prior learning B7: External examining B8: Programme monitoring and review B9: Academic appeals and student complaints B10: Managing higher education provision with others B11: Research degrees A1: UK and European reference points for academic standards A2: Degree-awarding bodies’ reference points for academic standards A3: Securing academic standards and an outcomes-based approach to academic awards General introduction

  8. Higher Education Review www.qaa.ac.uk/InstitutionReports/types-of-review/higher-education-review/ Review judgements made about: • The setting and maintenance of the threshold academic standards of awards(or the maintenance of the threshold academic standards of awards offered on behalf of degree-awarding bodies and/or other awarding organisations, for non degree-awarding bodies) • The quality of student learning opportunities • The quality of the information produced by the provider about its provision • The enhancement of student learning opportunities

  9. Reviewers look at each Expectation Extract from table in current HER handbook, Annex 2 (p.41)

  10. Judgements made against Expectations Extract from table in current HER handbook, Annex 2 (p.34)

  11. Resources for further information • Frequently asked questions • Knowledge bases www.qaa.ac.uk/qualitycode

  12. Questions?

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