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 Cathy Kerfoot QAA 22 July 2014

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

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)

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

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.

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 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 Part A: Setting and maintaining academic standards Part B: Assuring and enhancing academic quality Part C: Information about higher education provision General introduction Chapters of the Code

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 onReports/types-of- review/higher- education-review/

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

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

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