英国高等教育质量保证机构，宗旨是保障和评估英国高等教育的较优标准和质量，通知且鼓励英国高校在管理和教学质量上进一步提高。通过和英国高等教育研究所合作，QAA定义大学或学院高等教育的标准和质量，并对这些标准经行发布。英国高等教育质量保证机构成立于1997年，是英国高等教育大学学院签署授权的独立基金组织，并和英国主流高等教育基金组织签署合作协议。

About the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher EducationOur mission is to safeguard the public interest in sound standards of higher education qualifications and to inform and encourage continuous improvement in the management of the quality of higher education.

We do this by working with higher education institutions to define academic standards and quality, and we carry out and publish reviews against these standards.

We were established in 1997 and are an independent body funded by subscriptions from UK universities and colleges of higher education, and through contracts with the main UK higher education funding bodies.

An overview of our work can be found at: QAA: an introduction.

QAA work in the UK

As a UK-wide agency, our work covers a variety of areas. We work at a devolved level with the respective government bodies, UK-wide and with our international partners to ensure that higher education in the UK maintains the highest standards.

Our UK-wide work includes the Academic Infrastructure and applications for degree awarding powers and university title.

Working in a devolved context means that our work can be tailored towards the specific needs of the higher education sector. If you are interested in finding out about the work in a specific part of the UK please select your area of interest below.

England

Scotland

Wales/Cymru

Northern Ireland

英国高等教育质量保证机构作为英国一个工作范围广泛的组织，我们的工作包括很多领域，工作在政府转交下放的各个组织，英国的广泛知名组织以及和我们的国际合作伙伴确保了在英国主流的最高标准。我们工作对象的范围包括英格兰，苏格兰，威尔士和北爱尔兰地区的学院教育组织和申请授予学位授予的权利以及大学的名称。

QAA aims to help institutions enhance the management of their quality and standards by sharing our learning.

We do this by highlighting themes, questions, good practice and recommendations and disseminating the information that we gain in the process of our work. This includes providing collective and sector-wide intelligence obtained from our reviews and audits, institutional liaison and other developmental work within the sector.

Thematic briefings

Quality matters

Quality matters is a series of occasional briefing papers from QAA. Like all QAA publications, the papers are evidence-based, but are designed to do more than simply report – they promote discussion and debate about topical and important issues concerned with the management of quality assurance, and particularly with its interrelationships with ‘enhancement’.

Outcomes from institutional audit

A series of thematic briefings based on analysis of reports as they appear during the course of a review programme giving us timely information on emerging issues and areas of good practice. Outcomes from institutional audit is based on the first 70 institutional audits published by November 2004. They cover areas such as external examining, assessment of students, learning support resources and collaborative provision.

Outcomes from collaborative provision audit

This series of papers will be published from autumn 2007. It is based on the collaborative provision audits conducted by QAA in England and Northern Ireland between 2004 and 2007 and papers will broadly follow the approach taken in the Outcomes from institutional audit series.

Enhancement Themes

Managed by QAA - a programme of themes designed to support institutions in a process of continuous improvement in Scotland. Recent themes: Assessment, Responding to Student Needs, Flexible Delivery and Employability.

Sharing good practice

In our good practice series, we publish sector-wide overview reports. They draw together the main findings from a programme of reviews.

Overview reports for AVA review, continuation audit, developmental engagements, Foundation Degrees, higher education in further education colleges, and subject review.

Major Review Annual Trends in reviews of NHS-funded higher education.