The Awarding Map resource captures practical tools, insights and approaches to support providers in reducing their degree-awarding gaps.
The degree-awarding gap refers to the difference in awards made to students with different personal characteristics. In the higher education sector, attention predominantly focuses on the proportion of students awarded a ‘good’ (first or upper-second class) undergraduate degree.
Significant awarding gaps exist and persist for underrepresented groups across UK higher education, primarily impacting students from different ethnic or socioeconomic backgrounds, though gaps can also be present for mature students and/or students with reported disabilities.
This resource identifies sets of guidance materials on supporting students through all stages of their studies. We have created a route map to highlight different mechanisms that can be used to enact positive change for the most affected student groups at four key stages:
Publication date: 07 May 2024
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This short document provides a curated selection of resources from QAA’s Awarding Map for colleges. These have been chosen specifically for colleges to use across a wide range of provision. Many of the resources can be adapted to meet identified needs of college students, irrespective of subject of study or student characteristic.
Publication date: 28 Oct 2024
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These case studies demonstrate approaches taken by different providers to create solutions to address the attainment gap.
Publication date: 29 Jan 2025
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Publication date: 07 May 2024
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Publication date: 07 May 2024
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
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Publication date: 07 May 2024
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 07 May 2024
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Publication date: 07 May 2024
All staff and students from QAA Member institutions can register to use this site. You can check if your institution is a member on the QAA website
If you would like to know more about QAA Membership, please email us at membership@qaa.ac.uk
Send us an email at membership@qaa.ac.uk.
Find out more about the value of co-creation and how partnership working could embrace opportunities created by generative artificial intelligence in a blog written by Dr Kerr Castle, Quality Enhancement and Standards Specialist at QAA, referenced in the 'Shaping classroom culture' section of the Awarding Map.
In this episode of our QAA podcast, we discuss awarding gaps in higher education and what we can do to close them.
