The concept of programme specification and its application in the new quality assurance framework
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Quality Assurance in Education
- Vol. 8 (4), 164-172
- https://doi.org/10.1108/09684880010356057
Abstract
The article introduces the idea of programme specification and background to the development of policy by the Quality Assurance Agency. Programme specification will promote an outcomes approach to learning and the specification of standards across UK higher education and provide the basis for a new national quality assurance framework that focuses primarily on academic standards. It argues that the process of producing and justifying programme specifications will have an important influence on academic and quality assurance practices and the product (the programme specification) will result in new types of information about higher education learning.Keywords
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