Quality Assurance

General Guidance on QA Procedures

The Quality Handbook for Staff is the starting point for any staff seeking information on Aberystwyth University's quality assurance procedures and details on which staff to contact for further information. The Quality Audit Questionnaire provides a checklist of key quality assurance policies of the university.

• Quality Handbook for Staff
• Departmental Quality Audit (PDF)
• Quality Audit Questionnaire (Distance Learning)  (PDF)

External Benchmarks/Review of Aberystwyth University

• QAA Institutional Review 2012 Action Plan (.pdf)
• QAA Institutional Review June 2012 Final Report
• Institutional Review - SED 2012 (.pdf)
• QAA Mid-Cycle Review
• QAA Mid-Cycle Review Report
• QAA Code of Practice
• QAA Qualifications Framework
• QAA Subject Benchmarks Statements
• Application for Degree Awarding Powers
• Institutional Review, April 2007 (External)

Review, Monitoring and Approval Policies

• Guidelines for Periodic Review of Departments
• Annual Monitoring of Taught Programmes
• Module and Scheme Approval

Guidance on Procedures

• Guidelines for Monitoring Student Progress
• Good Research Practice
• Staff Guide to Postgraduate Issues (Staff Only)
• Guidelines on Staff Student Consultative Committees
• Code of Practice on Student Representation
• Code of Practice on Personal Tutors
• Handing-Over Notes for Deans of Faculties
• Examinations Taken away from Aberystwyth
• Information Policies (including Data Protection)
• APL/APEL and Credit Transfer
• External Examiners
• Student Exchange Programmes: Statement of Good Practice