United Kingdom (Scotland)

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  • Governmental membership
    United Kingdom (Scotland) has been a Governmental Member of EQAR since July 2014.

    Map: EHEA countries by governmental membership

  • General information on higher education

    Primary responsibility for the quality of higher education in the UK rests with the four individual nations (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), and with the individual providers, which are autonomous.

  • National external quality assurance requirements

    External quality assurance regulation rests with the Scottish Funding Council (SFC). All higher education providers in Scotland undergo enhancement-led external reviews. A new external institutional quality review method is currently under development in the Academic Year 2023/24.

    • Institutional review

  • EHEA key commitment

    Fully aligned with the ESG

    A fully functioning quality assurance system is in operation nationwide, in which all higher education institutions are subject to regular external quality assurance by an agency that has successfully demonstrated compliance with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the EHEA (ESG) through registration on EQAR

    Map: implementation of the EHEA key commitment

  • Cross-border quality assurance

    Not recognising foreign agencies as part of the national external QA requirements

    Map: recognition of cross-border quality assurance

  • European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes

    European Approach available to all higher education institutions

    All higher education institutions with degree awarding power are able to approve their own awards and therefore they can employ the European Approach for the quality assurance of their joint programme.

    Map: availability of the European Approach for QA of Joint Programmes

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    https://data.deqar.eu/country/278
  • Further information

Registered agencies operating in United Kingdom (Scotland)