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Quality and Standards
Definitive Course and Unit Documents Academic Quality Framework Collaborative Partnerships and Provision Q&S Training catalogue Serviced committees and working groups
Quality and Standards
Definitive Course and Unit Documents Academic Quality Framework Collaborative Partnerships and Provision Q&S Training catalogue Serviced committees and working groups
  • Quality and Standards
  • Definitive Course and Unit Documents
  • Academic Quality Framework (AQF)
  • Collaborative Partnerships and Provision
  • Q&S Training catalogue
  • Quality assurance and quality enhancement sub committees and working groups of TQSC (Serviced by Q&S)

Quality and Standards

The Quality & Standards department is one of the teams within Academic Registry.

We develop principles and processes relating to quality assurance and enhancement, in consultation with stakeholders from across the University, that take account of external requirements and institutional priorities.

We are responsible for the implementation and oversight of centrally managed activities, and for supporting faculties in the execution of their responsibilities.

Q&S provides expert advice and guidance to colleagues, both in person and through a range of training materials.

Please see our SharePoint site for our documents.

Our Training Catalogue is available here

If viewing this on a mobile device please click the menu above and then select Quality and Standards to access more information about the department.

Nathan Spencer

Head of Quality
Responsible for managing the Quality & Standards team and the implementation of all centrally-driven quality assurance procedures across on-campus activities and those undertaken with collaborative partners.

Jane Harris & Robyn Warner

Quality Officers
Responsible for supporting Quality processes including;

  • Course approvals
  • Modifications
  • External examiners
  • Collaborative partnerships
  • Exception requests
  • UCIF administration

Charlotte Fyfe & Jenny Small

Faculty Quality Officers
Responsible for providing administrative support and guidance to the Faculties in all matters regarding quality and assurance. Secretaries to the Faculty Teaching and Quality and Standards committees.

Elena Iordache

Quality Administrator
Responsible for providing administrative support to the Head of Quality and Quality Officers in fulfilling the administrative requirements of Q&S processes and systems. In particular around the set-up of approval events, contracting external examiners and managing their access to University systems and making contractual and expenses payments to external examiners and external panel members.

Contact details:

Queries relating to….

Email address

External Examiners

externalexaminers@beds.ac.uk

Course approvals (including submission of RTCs and documentation prior to events)

FQO queries

Modifications

Exception Requests

Q&S collaborative partnerships queries

PSRBs

Other general Q&S queries

quality@beds.ac.uk

UCIF Queries

Please post in the UCIF Support MSTeams site

For overarching strategic Quality and Standards queries, please contact the Head of Quality.

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