QAA Membership Podcast

In this episode, Si Bullock (Quality & Standards Specialist) sits down with Professor Michael Draper from Swansea University to discuss academic integrity.

The pair consider contract cheating, student attitudes to misconduct and relevant regulatory frameworks and legislation that underpin how the sector maintains standards.
As part of our work in this area, QAA has developed an Academic Integrity Charter alongside the Academic Integrity Advisory Group which sets a baseline level of commitment for institutions to ensure qualifications are verifiable and genuine. For more information visit Academic integrity (qaa.ac.uk)

In this latest episode we explore ways to enhance the impact of projects carried out by work-based learners – and specifically some of the challenges which part-time students face in combining their academic learning with creating impact from that learning outside of the classroom.

During the episode, our contributors introduce a new toolkit designed to equip educators with the knowledge and the confidence needed to embed impact in their curricula, developed through a QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project run by colleagues based at universities in Liverpool, Oxford and Chester.

The project is informed by a commitment to sustainable development and to embedding a recognition of the importance of such global issues in the practices and impacts of work-based learning initiatives.
Dr Kerr Castle leads a full and lively conversation with Professor Tony Wall, Dr Fiona Armstrong-Gibbs, Dr Geena Whiteman and their student Korben Dean-Young from Liverpool John Moores University's Business School, Dr Lisa Rowe from the University of Chester's Business School, and Dr Simon Smith from Oxford Brookes University's Business School.
To find out more about the project and the launch of the Student Intrapreneur and Entrepreneur (SIE) Toolkit, visit the QAA website.

In this podcast, we talk to Ian Pepper - Curriculum Qualifications and Apprenticeship Senior Adviser and Head of Centre at Harperley Hall, College of Policing - about the new Subject Benchmark Statement for Policing.
Subject Benchmark Statements describe the nature of study and the academic standards expected of graduates in specific subject areas; they show what graduates might reasonably be expected to know, do and understand at the end of their studies.
Ian, who was part of the advisory group for the Policing Subject Benchmark Statement, discusses with Si Bullock - QAA Quality and Standards Specialist - about how it will be a fantastic addition to policing programmes; ensuring that there is standardisation across the board and that all requirements are met.
To find out more about Subject Benchmark Statements, visit https://www.qaa.ac.uk/the-quality-code/subject-benchmark-statements
This podcast was first published on 1 September 2022.

In this latest episode of the QAA Membership Podcast, Dr Kerr Castle (Quality Enhancement and Standards Specialist) explores multimodality in higher education with the team behind the QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project, Harnessing Multimodality in Higher Education.

The episode features Professor Sam Elkington (Professor of Learning and Teaching at Teesside University); Professor Andrew Middleton (Professor of Active Learning and Deputy Head of Anglia Learning & Teaching at Anglia Ruskin University); Maggie Gibson (Head of Learner Development at Birmingham City University); Jimmy Lo (University Learning Technologist at University of Greenwich).

The podcast discusses what multimodality is in the context of higher education and how best to harness it in teaching, learning and assessment to support the student experience and success.
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In this episode, Dr Kerr Castle (Quality Enhancement and Standards Specialist at QAA) sits down with Dr George Hulene, Associate Dean of Faculty of Business and Law at Coventry University; Professor Eleanor Davies, Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at Huddersfield Business School; and Dr Peter Wolstencroft, Liverpool John Moores University. The discussion focuses on the outcomes of a QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project led by Coventry University that explored how patterns of student attendance and student engagement are changing across post-pandemic UK higher education.

The project involved working with ten business schools to explore students’ priorities and produced a Student Engagement Framework following their exploration of how students have responded to the changes in delivery and assessment, Their findings identified key themes, including:

• Timetabling and commuting students
• The need for virtual and physical communities
• The importance of recordings to support flexible learning
• Digital literacy and inequalities
• Mobilising student voice

These themes are picked up through the discussion in the podcast. As mentioned in the episode, you might also like to explore our work around supporting successful student transitions, which offers positive approaches and practical solutions to help support transitions to and through higher education.