The current brouhaha about standards in England

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-137

  Brown, Roger ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic standards; External examiners; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953668561     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: 14701081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2010.487699     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Alderman, G., 2008, 'Teaching quality assessment, league tables and the decline of academic standards in British higher education', lecture given at the University of Buckingham, 17 June.
2. Alderman, G., 2009, 'Defining and measuring academic standards: A British perspective', Higher Education Management and Policy, 21(3), pp. 1-14.
3. Alderman, G. & Brown, R., 2008, July 17, 'Is it time to unleash the watchdog to safeguard our degree standards?, Times Higher Education, pp. 24-25.
4. Brown, R., 2004, Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The UK Experience Since 1992 (London and New York, RoutledgeFalmer).
5. Brown, R., 2006, The information fallacy. Available online at: www.hepi.ac.uk/pubdetail.asp?ID=229&DOC=Seminars (accessed 6 August 2009).
6. Brown, R., 2010, Comparability of Degree Standards (Oxford, Higher Education Policy Institute).
7. Brown, R., Carpenter, C., Collins, R. & Winkvist-Noble, L., 2007, 'Recent developments in information about programme quality in the UK', Quality in Higher Education, 13(2), pp. 173-186.
8. Coughlan, S., 2008, Watchdog: Degree grades arbitrary. Available online at: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/ 7469396.stm (accessed 10 December 2009).
9. Department for Business, Education and Skills, 2009, Higher Ambitions (London, Department for Business, Education and Skills).
10. Harvey, L., 2003, 'Editorial: Student feedback', Quality in Higher Education, 9(1), pp. 1-20.
11. Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), 2009a, Report of the Sub-committee for Teaching, Quality and the Student Experience (Bristol, Higher Education Funding Council for England).
12. Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), 2009b, Future Arrangements for Quality Assurance in England and Northern Ireland (Bristol, Higher Education Funding Council for England).
13. Higher Education Quality Council (HEQC), 1997, Graduate Standards Programme Final Report (London, HEQC).
14. House of Commons Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee, (IUSSC), 2009, Students and Universities Eleventh Report of Session 2008-09 (HC 170-1) (London, The Stationery Office Limited).
15. Lipsett, A., 2008, Let's deal with complaints quickly, says Denham. Available online at: www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/11/administration.highereducation (accessed 11 September 2008).
16. Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), 2009, Thematic Enquiries into Concerns about Academic Quality and Standards in Higher Education in England (Gloucester, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education).
17. Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), 2010, Developing a set of minimum expectations for external examiners: A briefing paper. Available online at: www.qaa.ac.uk/events/assuringqandsinhe/ briefing%20paper.pdf (accessed 2 April 2010).
18. UniversitiesUK, 2008, Quality and Standards in UK Universities: How the System Works (London, Universities UK).
19. UniversitiesUK, 2009, UniversitiesUK to lead review of external examiners. Available online at: http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Newsroom/Media-Releases/Pages/UniversitiesUKtoleadreviewofexternal-examiners.aspx (accessed 2 April 2010).
20. Warren-Piper, D., 1994, Are Professors Professional? The Organisation of University Examinations (London, Jessica Kingsley).
21. Williams, P., 2009a, 'The result of intelligent effort. Two decades in the quality assurance of higher education', lecture given at the Institute of Education, University of London, 3 November.
22. Williams, P., 2009b, 'Quality assurance: Is the jury still out?' The Lord Upjohn Lecture 2009.
23. Williams, R., 2009, October 20, 'First-class battle', Education Guardian, p. 6.