This consultation event takes place to continue our discussions about QAA’s proposals for student membership of audit and review teams. We expect it to be of interest to senior staff and student representatives in higher education institutions with an interest in quality and its enhancement.
We conducted an initial consultation exercise on this topic with the representative and funding bodies in October 2007. In response to that consultation, several questions were raised about the impact of such a change on the integrity of the current audit method, its introduction during an audit cycle and the operational and logistical requirements for involving students as auditors.
The conference will provide an opportunity for delegates to hear about the experience of student members of review teams in Scotland, an institution’s experience of working with students as members of internal review teams and to hear directly from the student observers themselves about their experience.
The closing date for applications to attend this conference has now passed. If you have any enquiries please call Rachel Curtin on 01452 557145 or email r.curtin@qaa.ac.uk
In preparation for this conference and to inform discussion, we have prepared the following three papers:
Feedback from student observers and auditors HTML | PDF - this report provides an analysis of the feedback provided by student observers and auditors on their experience and perceptions of observing an institutional audit.
Learning from periodic review HTML | PDF - this paper gives an overview of periodic review arrangements at nine institutions that already include students as members of their teams and an analysis of lessons QAA can learn from their experience.
Learning from the Nordic experience HTML | PDF -
this paper is an extract from a paper prepared for the Nordic Quality Assurance
Network in Higher Education on Student Involvement in Quality Assessments
of Higher Education in the Nordic Countries and is followed by an analysis
of lessons QAA can learn from their experience.
Draft programme
| 1000 | Registration and coffee | |
| 1030 | Welcome and introduction |
Professor Tony Hazell |
| QAA address | Peter Williams |
|
| 1045 | Presentations and Q&A |
|
| Student engagement and the Sheffield Hallam experience – focussing on student membership of periodic review teams | Mark Wainman Will Haywood |
|
| Scottish experience | Judith Vincent |
|
| 1130 | Feedback from the student observers’ trials | Students who observed audit in England or review in Wales in Spring 2008 |
| 1230 | Lunch (Rootes Restaurant) | |
| 1330 | Introduction to discussion groups and topics | Dr Stephen Jackson Director of Reviews, QAA |
| 1340 | Group discussions |
|
| 1430 | Feedback and Q&A | Peter Williams Wes Streeting Rob Cuthbert Other speakers TBC |
| 15:30 | Closing remarks and tea |
Top