Subject Benchmarking in the UK

Higher Education Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue , 2010, Pages 157-181

  Williams, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degree Programme; High Education; High Education Institution; High Education Sector; Threshold Standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103947532     PISSN: 15710378     EISSN: 22151923     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3754-1_9     Document Type: Chapter

References (24)

1. Becher, T., Trowler, P. (2001). Academic tribes and territories: Intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
2. Bekhradnia, B. (2003). 20 years of higher education policy: Looking back 10 years and forward to the next decade. Oxford: Higher Education Policy Institute.
3. Birkbeck (2006). Academic quality assurance. Birkbeck College, University of London. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/qa/external/subjbench Accessed 12 June 2009.
4. Brown, R. (2004). Quality assurance in higher education: The UK experience sine 1992. London: Routledge Falmer.
5. Cambridge (2007). A Guide to quality assurance University of Cambridge academic division. http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/education/quality/221.html Accessed 12 June 2009.
6. Chandler, J. (2001). Benchmarking the Sociology Discipline. In E. Harrison, & R. Mears (eds.), Assessing sociologists in higher education (pp. 41–60). Aldershot: Ashgate.
7. Chemistry benchmarking report – see QAA website below.
8. Dearing (1997). Higher education in the learning society. Report of the National Committee of Enquiry into Higher Education. London: HMSO.
9. Economics benchmarking report – see QAA website below.
10. General Medical Council (2002). Tomorrow’s Doctors. London: GMC.
11. Henkel, M. (2000). Academic identities and policy change in higher education. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
12. HEQC (1995). Graduateness: What are graduates? Clarifying the attributes of ‘graduateness’. Higher Education Quality Council Quality Enhancement Group. London. http://www.city. londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/graduates/starter.html Accessed 12 June 2009.
13. History benchmarking report – see QAA website below.
14. Jackson, N. (1998). Pilot Benchmarking Study of Assessment Practice in Seven Engineering Departments. In N. Jackson (ed.), Pilot studies in benchmarking assessment practice. Gloucester: Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.
15. Kubler, B., Forbes, P. (2005). Student employability profiles: A guide for employers. London: CIHE.
16. Law benchmarking report – see QAA website below.
17. Liverpool (2006). Programme specification: Notes for guidance. University of Liverpool. http://www.liv.ac.uk/tqsd/qualityframework/ps_gn_06.doc Accessed 12 June 2009.
18. QAA (website) Quality Assurance Agency Website. http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastruc-ture/benchmark/honours/Accessed 12June 2009.
19. QAA (1998). Evaluation of the benchmarking process in Law, Chemistry and History. Cheltenham UK: Quality Assurance Agency. http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/evaluation/overview.asp Accessed 12 June 2009.
20. Rae, J. (1895). Life of Adam Smith. Reprinted in 1965 by New York: Augustus M. Kelley.
21. Williams, G. (2004). The higher education market in the United Kingdom. In P. Teixeira, B. Jongbloed, D. Dill, A. Amaral (eds.), Markets in higher education: Rhetoric or reality? Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
22. Wisby, E. (2002). Subject Benchmarking as a ‘new mode’ of regulating teaching in higher education and its implications for academic autonomy – including a case study of the Sociology Benchmarking Group. PhD dissertation, Sheffield University.
23. Yorke, M. (2001). Assessment issues arising from Subject Benchmarking statements. Bristol: Learning and Teaching Support Network.
24. Young, M. (1961). The rise of the meritocracy. London: Penguin Books.