We have signed two Memoranda of Understanding this week during the Education World Forum – with the Higher Education Commission of Mauritius, and with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan. Find out more below 👇 Mauritius: tinyurl.com/3un5h85y Kazakhstan: tinyurl.com/5x98c55v

The issue is important. But the scale is tiny, and the mechanisms are complex. wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

We are pleased to have received approval from the Vietnamese Ministry of Education & Training to continue conducting accreditation at institutional level in Viet Nam, which supports our mission to contribute to the development of international cultures of quality. Read more: tinyurl.com/y8rntta4

Two brill articles in @wonkhe.bsky.social today 🤓 One from @dkernohan.bsky.social on precisely how providers cut costs wonkhe.com/blogs/the-fi... Particularly helpful in demonstrating where these choices have a direct impact on factors that make up a high quality learning experience

God bless public libraries and their easy printing software to save millennials who don’t live in flats big enough to own their own printer

On Tuesday, colleagues Ruth and Helena ran a workshop at the HE Professional Franchising conference, gathering feedback on Principle 8 of the Advice and Guidance that scaffolds the UK Quality Code for Higher Education 2024 (www.qaa.ac.uk/the-quality-...), which we are developing with the HE sector.

Our first PVC International Network of 2025 takes place tomorrow! Don't miss out: 📅 Wednesday 12 February ⏰ 09:00 -10:00am UK time 📍 Online We'll be joined by Erika Boak, EU Education Director at the British Council, who will discuss the BC's priorities in Europe. Sign up 👉 tinyurl.com/2jxej5rr

We are growing! Since last summer, our pool of reviewers, visitors and assessors has doubled from around 300 colleagues to more than 600 today. Read more ➡️ lnkd.in/ewac7YkV

Were UK universities only able to fund 2/3s of their research back before Brexit too? Or did Brexit worsen the gap?

The Quality Insights conference organised by @qaaforhe.bsky.social looks like one not to miss! Loads about compassionate assessment and other topics. www.qaa.ac.uk/news-events/...

Registration is now open for our Quality Insights Conference, which will take place online on 26-27 February! It will focus on themes of sustainable enhancement, dynamic quality processes, compassion in education, and institutional and curriculum reform. Sign up here 👉 events.qaa.ac.uk/yRXDyq

Today marks the first in a series of 'Making Sense of the Gap' online events, and to coincide with this we have published a case study from De Montfort University looking at reimagining PG Certs to address inequality in higher educational practice: www.membershipresources.qaa.ac.uk/teaching-lea...

2024 was a big year for the Access to Higher Education Diploma, as we celebrated the registration of our first million students onto AHE courses. QAA's Claire Swales tells us more in our latest blog: www.qaa.ac.uk//en/news-eve...

Links to guidance from QAA in GenAI shared by @evealcock.bsky.social of QAA . www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/mem... and www.qaa.ac.uk/membership/m...

REF panel recruitment is already under way for the 2029 cycle. Noises in OfS strategy about changes to TEF as part of integrated quality system. Bets on how different the 2027 TEF cycle will look, and when providers will be informed of changes?

This article is helpful in reiterating the flaws of AI approaches that rely heavily on detection software (which is nigh-on impossible and long-term not desirable). Need to focus much more on detecting learning, rather than cheating. New assessment methods are the way go to

Super exciting to see @qaaforhe.bsky.social and CDN convene over 80 students and colleagues from Scotland's colleges, universities and sector agencies to begin to design enhancement projects for Scotland's new Tertiary Enhancement Programme. Collaboration in action! www.qaa.ac.uk/scotland/new...

QAA has joined an increasing number of organisations in the field of education which have seen the potential of Bluesky to foster productive dialogue and the constructive interaction of ideas.

Can we go back to a time where trains didn’t tilt when they went round corners 🥴

Tesco express is abhorrently expensive these days

someone tell trainline I don't want to open booking .com every time I'm looking up train times

This cannot go on, said Simon Marginson in the Drapers’ lecture. Higher Education needs to return to a balance of public and private (ie student fee) funding, but also a balance between a local/national and global missions. wonkhe.com/blogs/when-n...

If you’re desire to reduce the harm to young people from social media results in you banning them from accessing it, may I suggest you’re placing restrictions on the wrong party?

In particular, the critical importance of addressing gender imbalance - “I went to school without shoes, but education was important to my father. And now I am the first woman Vice Chancellor”. Powerful. Moving. True. #GGAfrica2024 #GoingGlobalAfrica

Omg you can now play connections in dark mode Christmas come early 😍

Feel like I’ve forgotten how to interact on a platform like this. Past few years on Twitter I just reposted work stuff and gave up on much else.

Bluesky clearly reaching a tipping point from X amongst media, academics, commentariat etc. So time to take it seriously. Though have concerns for the future if BS/X just splits between obvious social and political lines. Could make it harder to know what’s going on and what people really think etc.

New TEF ratings just dropped

One of my highlights at EQAF yesterday was my fellow presenter Gaidi Faraj’s provocation: “if you’re still worried about your students using AI to cheat, I’d say to you: if you are not teaching generative AI to your students, you are cheating them” 👏

The University of Twente looking magical yesterday evening. Looking forward to speaking at the European Quality Assurance Forum on AI today 🙌

After a stimulating two days at @wonkhe.bsky.social’s Festival of Higher Education in London, I’m in the Netherlands at the University of Twente for the European Quality Assurance Forum, talking about AI 🤓 #HigherEducationPolicy

Bit brighter over here isn’t it? Follow me for musings on #highereducation policy (especially HE quality) and politics … probably

Former Minister of State for Education, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, has written a blog to coincide with QAA’s latest policy paper. She argues for the realignment of the English quality system with internationally agreed best practice 👇 www.hepi.ac.uk/2023/10/25/t...

Bit brighter over here isn’t it? Follow me for musings on #highereducation policy (especially HE quality) and politics … probably