Assessing the Quality of Quality Assessment: The inspection of teaching and learning in British universities |
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| Abstract: | The British higher education sector believes that its teaching and learning processes are subject to excessive amounts of inspection and review. Between September 2000 and December 2001 Departments of Educational Studies will be subject to a new scrutiny process, Subject Review, which is operated on behalf of the main funding body by the Quality Assurance Agency. The purpose of this paper is to characterise Subject Review and to evaluate its effectiveness against the purposes it has set itself in the areas of funding policy, enhancement of provision, and public information. At the end of the paper the conclusions drawn from this evaluation are applied to the relevant parts of the new framework for inspection and review which is being introduced in the UK. The paper offers a case study of factors which come into account when systems for measuring the quality of higher education are themselves exposed to measurement. |
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