Academic integrity
Find out what’s happening to combat academic fraud and access a range of advice, guidance, and good practice.
Quality and standards
We work closely with our members and sector bodies to ensure that nationally agreed reference points for quality and academic standards in higher education are current, relevant and effective. This includes Qualification Frameworks, Subject Benchmark Statements and Characteristics Statements, which all underpin the UK Quality Code for Higher Education and are published on the QAA website.
Our membership activities also focus on topics that have strategic importance to the maintenance of academic standards including academic integrity; credit and student workload; data; and degree standards, algorithms and external examining.
Beyond the Baseline: QAA Resource Map
This new publication offers a useful overview of QAA resources that have been carefully curated to support the tertiary and higher education sector in going beyond the baseline regulatory requirements as presented in the Office for Students’ (OfS) regulatory framework for HE in England. It demonstrates how QAA resources relate to the OfS conditions and how they can be used to enhance student learning, teaching and assessment above the regulatory baseline.
Resource topic areas
Credit and student workload
Consider how to use academic credit in a range of contexts including micro-credentials.
Data and evidence
Explore how data is used to assure and enhance the quality of higher education, as well as underpinning decision making.
Degree standards, algorithms and external examining
Discover a range of resources designed to support securing and maintaining academic standards.
Quality processes
Learn more about effective implementation and maintenance of quality processes and practice.
Managing partnerships
Find information focusing on the management of different types of partnership arrangements.