{"id":9325,"date":"2021-11-29T17:13:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=9325"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:47:44","slug":"quality-handbook","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/knowledge-base\/quality-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Handbook 2024-25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NB: For 2025\/26, the processes and documentation for the University’s Revalidation Project are not reflected in the Quality Handbook. All other processes remain as described in the Quality Handbook. There will be a full update of the Quality Handbook for 2026\/27.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Section 1 Themes, Principles and Processes<\/a>
Section 2 Course Validation, Modification and Closure<\/a>
Section 3 Annual Course Enhancement and Monitoring<\/a>
Section 4 Periodic Review of Schools<\/a>
Section 5 Collaborative Partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appendix 1.A Key Terms<\/a>
Appendix 2.A Education Strategy Criteria for New Proposals<\/a>
Appendix 2.B New Course Approval Process<\/a>
Appendix 2.Ci Membership of the UoG Development Team<\/a>
Appendix 2.Cii University Membership of the Development Team for Collaborative Partner Developments<\/a>
Appendix 2.D Definitive Validation Documentation<\/a>
Appendix 2.E Validation Criteria<\/a>
Appendix 2.F External Consultation for Validations<\/a> 
Appendix 2.G Course and Module Modifications<\/a> 
Appendix 2.H Changes to Existing Provision that Require a Validation Process<\/a> 
Appendix 3.A Categorisation of Collaborative Partnerships <\/a>
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Section 1: Themes, Principles and Processes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1.1 The University holds Degree Awarding Powers that enable it to confer both taught and research degrees. As an independent body, it has overall responsibility for the academic standards and quality of the qualifications it awards wherever and in whatever context that award is conferred, including those awards validated for collaborative partners. The University has a well-deserved reputation for providing high quality and respected higher education. This Quality Framework describes how it sets and maintains robust academic standards, and assures and enhances the quality of learning opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.2 The Quality Framework underpins delivery of the ambition articulated in the Education Strategy 2022-2027, which has six goals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goal 1: Create and sustain a future-facing education that is inclusive, professionalised, and multi-disciplinary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goal 2: Every student\u2019s learning experience enables them to be flexible, professionalised, enterprising, ambitious for their own future, active in their own learning, and digitally literate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goal 3: All staff in the university community as a whole are adept and agile, flexible, ambitious, comfortable with accountability and change, and digitally fluent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goal 4: Our research activity complements and underpins our teaching priorities so that our teaching is truly research-rich, innovative, enterprising, and always current, and so that students are able to participate in appropriate research and knowledge-exchange pursuit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goal 5: Develop and sustain academic and employer partnerships that help create and sustain globalised mindsets, enhance the professionalised and industry-led nature of our curriculum, and build our capacity for research with impact<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goal 6: We will develop and strengthen our systems and processes to ensure efficient and effective ways of working, enable continuous improvement, and support our high academic standards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.3 The processes developed within the Quality Framework align with the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) UK Quality Code<\/a> (2024), the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) Standards and Guidelines for Quality<\/a> Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG 2015)<\/a> and the Office for Students (OfS) Regulatory Framework for Higher Education in England (2022)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1.4 Our Quality Framework will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a. Generate reliable information and prompt, effective action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

b. Be fit for purpose and ensure purposes, procedures and outcomes are clearly communicated in order to engage the active and willing support of all those who use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

c. Firstly, meet the needs of students, staff, Academic Board and the University\u2019s Council; secondly, meet the requirements of external stakeholders and regulatory bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

d. Be flexible and responsive to future change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Processes that Comprise the Quality Framework<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1.5 The Quality Framework contains these integrated processes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n