UK Quality Code for HE - provides guidance on maintaining quality and standards.
Qualifications Frameworks - including qualification descriptors for all HE qualifications, against which University of Bristol programme specifications should be benchmarked.
Higher Education Credit Framework for England: Advice on academic credit arrangements - the implications of this national framework have been integrated into the University's credit framework.
What is Credit - A guide for students
Explaining contact hours: Guidance for institutions providing public information about higher education - reflects how approaches to teaching, learning and assessment - including contact time - vary across subjects across HEIs, and encourages institutions to communicate this information to students.
Enterprise and entrepreneurship guidance: Guidance for UK higher education providers - of practical help to those working with students in higher education to foster their skills in enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Education for sustainable development guidance - to support higher education providers wishing to embrace education for sustainable development as part of the student academic experience.
QAA Subject Benchmark Statements are part of the QAA Quality Code. They set out expectations of standards for bachelors and masters level degrees in a range of disciplines.
Many programmes at the University of Bristol are in alignment with a Subject Benchmark Statement in their subject, and this will be indicated on the programme specification where applicable. The Programme Director is responsible for managing and recording alignment to Subject Benchmark Statements.
The QAA regularly consult on Subject Benchmark Statements and operate a programme of review. Subject Benchmark Statements are reviewed no later than 5 years after they were first published or 7 years following a first review.
AQPO publish links to revised Subject Benchmark Statements in the Education Bulletin and it is the responsibility of the Programme Director to check that the programme continues to be in alignment.
Any changes which affect the Ordinances and Regulations http://www.bristol.ac.uk/university/governance/rules-regulations such as a programme title change, will normally be managed through the Unit and Programme Management System.
Contact
Please contact approval-help@bristol.ac.uk with any queries.
