Thursday 15-02-2024 - 13:33

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) has expressed confidence in the University's progress in continuing to monitor, review and enhance its higher education provision to ensure arrangements are in place for managing academic standards and the quality of our student experience.

The Quality Enhancement and Standards Review (QSER) report follows a QAA review carried out by a team of three independent reviewers on 6th December 2024, where they met with our Full Time Officers and a number of our students and staff from across the University. Our Vice President GSBS, Solomon Ajala, and our Student Voice Team Leader, Sara MacLean, led on our engagement work with the University in the preparation for the review.

The review outcome supports our strategic theme of ensuring the student voice is at the heart of decision making within our Strategic Plan

The review highlighted that the University and Students' Association have effective arrangements in place to monitor, review and enhance its approach to student partnership, evidenced for example through our Student Partnership Agreement. The report said: "The QSER team saw evidence that the University to working proactively with students as partners to keep students at the heart of decision-making processes" and noted the work through our Student Action Group for Engagement (S.A.G.E.) was "notable for the effective way in which it seeks to provide a dedicated student-led forum for the consideration of proposals for change relating to policies or practices that affect students, thereby ensuring robust and transparent student consultation".

The report also highlights positive examples of partnership working between the Students' Association, students and the University in changing the name of the Student Staff Consultative Groups (SSCGs) to Student Partnership Forums, creating guidance in the use of artificial intelligence in the curriculum and our joint work on student mental health.