Abstract
Quality Assurance of UK Higher Education, the wider regulation of the sector and of those who teach and research within it has experienced significant change within recent years. The scale of these changes looks set to intensify as the Higher Education and Research Bill makes its way through Parliament. Core themes under-pinning these changes are a Government desire to generate further competition within the sector through the arrival of new providers alongside more detailed sets of information to inform consumer (student) choice. Similar challenges can be witnessed within the legal education sector as one of the key regulators of the legal profession is currently consulting on far-reaching reforms, designed to diversify the routes towards professional qualification. Although the UK does not have a state certification process for academic staff, increasing attention has been brought to bear on institutions to demonstrate that their staff hold teaching qualifications. Quality assurance activities and processes have taken an increasingly central place within the UK HE landscape over the last 25 years or so. However, the future balance between highly developed quality assurance mechanisms, state-regulation and a competitive open market appears uncertain. Law exemplifies many of the challenges facing the sector as a whole.
Highlights
Quality Assurance of UK Higher Education, the wider regulation of the sector and of those who teach and research within it has experienced significant change within recent years
Similar challenges can be witnessed within the legal education sector as one of the key regulators of the legal profession is currently consulting on farreaching reforms, designed to diversify the routes towards professional qualification
Throughout all of this, the Quality Assurance Agency has presided over an increased recognition of the importance of enhancing and assuring the quality of higher education within the UK, with increased responsibility placed upon individual institutions to assure quality
Summary
Quality Assurance of UK Higher Education, the wider regulation of the sector and of those who teach and research within it has experienced significant change within recent years. The scale of these changes looks set to intensify as the Higher Education and Research Bill makes its way through Parliament. The UK does not have a state certification process for academic staff, increasing attention has been brought to bear on institutions to demonstrate that their staff hold teaching qualifications (alongside traditional academic credentials of higher degrees in their subject areas). Quality assurance activities and processes have taken an increasingly central place within the UK HE landscape over the last 25 years or so. Law exemplifies many of the challenges facing the sector as a whole
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