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Gilroy, Peter; McNamara, Olwen – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2009
This paper presents a critical overview of the way in which higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK have had their research activity subject to review. There have been six such reviews to date, the first two carried out by the Universities Grants Committee and, from 1992, by its replacement, the four UK higher education (HE) funding bodies…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Colleges, Evaluation
Barkas, Linda Anne – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2011
After the 1992 Further and Higher Education Reform Act enabled polytechnics and the qualifying franchised colleges to be renamed universities or higher education institutions, the dominance of the rhetoric of skill development aggravated long-standing schisms between further and higher education about whether or not degree-level courses should be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Adult Education
Mclellan, Effie – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2007
Purpose: Using the UK's recent disability legislation as a trigger, the paper explores issues in evidencing competence in the current context of using assessment as a tool for learning. Design/methodology/approach: A modified version of the pragmatic method is used, in which assessment theory is used to explore the tension in assessment which is…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Validity, Academic Standards, Higher Education
Green, Diana, Ed. – 1994
This book reflects some of the debate following publication of the 1991 Further and Higher Education Bill, and it also draws on preliminary findings of a national research project funded by a partnership of government, business, and higher education that was designed to develop and test quality assessment methods. Chapters are organized in three…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Competition, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Field, John – Adults Learning, 2004
From a learner's standpoint, Scotland's education system often looks less like a neat set of pathways than a tangled jungle. Since devolution, Scottish policymakers and the education community have set out to create a coherent and transparent set of opportunities for adult learners, of a quality to match Scotland's oft-praised unified system of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adult Learning, Federal Legislation