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What does QAA stand for?

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (UK)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
The minister wants to ensure that the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has the power to investigate every time a whistleblower claims that standards have slipped.
On a visit to the college yesterday Ms Hutt announced to staff that the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has approved the Institute's application for taught degree awarding powers.
It emphasizes interdisciplinary and applied approaches stressed in the Social Policy Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education benchmark statement, as well as the origins and development of UK welfare institutions, concepts and theories, and social needs relating to funding and public/private and voluntary sector provision.
Most recently, a number of countries have established national agencies such as the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in the UK (QAA), the Australian University Quality Agency (AUQA) and the New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit (AAU).
The four- year degree came under threat three years ago when the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education unveiled plans to replace the Master of Arts degree with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
The table was compiled using information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, the funding councils and the 123 universities themselves.
He confirmed that both the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) and the government had been involved in the application process, which had taken three years.
During the year, the college received the highest commendation from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) on the academic quality and standards of its degree courses and, as a result, it is now seeking degree awarding powers for its taught programmes.

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