Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

2024-06-10

The QAA's core business is to review the quality and standards of higher education in universities and colleges. It does this by auditing institutional arrangements for managing quality and standards, including arrangements for collaboration with overseas partners; and by assessing the quality and standards of teaching and learning at subject level.The Agency's mission is to promote public confidence that quality of provision and standards of awards in higher education are being safeguarded and enhanced

Independent U.K. body funded by educational establishment subscriptions and funding council contracts. Assesses quality and standards of teaching and learning.

It does this by auditing institutional arrangements for managing quality and standards, including arrangements for collaboration with overseas partners; and by assessing the quality and standards of teaching and learning at subject level.The Agency's mission is to promote public confidence that quality of provision and standards of awards in higher education are being safeguarded and enhanced