Quality Assurance

The Graduate School oversees all new postgraduate programme developments, working closely with the University's Postgraduate Academic Standards Committee. To enhance the quality of our provision, a variety of forms of student feedback are considered, including reports from external examiners, and analyses of survey results. Progress monitoring of all research students is considered vital in ensuring both the success of individual students and in enhancing the quality of our research degrees. Student representatives sit on the College Postgraduate Committee, providing a direct link between the student body and the Graduate School.

Other aspects of quality assurance include:

• The University Committee on Teaching and Learning and the Postgraduate Academic Standards Committee monitor programmes of study and the manner in which they are taught and assessed.
• Staff-student liaison committees operate at either School or Discipline level and involve elected student representatives from each degree programme.
• The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education(QAA) is responsible for the external assurance of quality and standards in teaching and learning. The QAA also undertakes regular institutional reviews of the University's quality assurance procedures and the enhancement of quality.
• The UK Research Assessment Exercise involves an explicit and formalised assessment of the quality of research.

For more information please see the University of Aberdeen's Academic Quality Handbook.