Contents
Foreword
2
Introduction
4
Glossary
6
General principles
7
Institutional context
8
Students
8
External relations
9
Staff
10
Monitoring, feedback, evaluation and improvement
10
Appendix 1: the precepts
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Career education, information and guidance
Code of practice for the assurance of academic quality
and standards in higher education: Career education,
information and guidance
Foreword
1 This document is a code of practice for career education, information and
guidance in UK higher education institutions. It is one of a suite of inter-related
documents which, taken together, will form an overall Code of practice for the
assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education for the guidance of
higher education institutions subscribing to the Quality Assurance Agency for
Higher Education (the QAA).
2 The overall Code and its constituent sections are being prepared by the QAA in
response both to the Reports of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher
Education and its Scottish Committee (the 'Dearing' and 'Garrick' Reports) and the
consequent remodelling of the national arrangements for quality assurance in
higher education. The completed Code will identify a comprehensive series of
system-wide expectations covering matters relating to the management of academic
quality and standards in higher education. In so doing, it will provide an
authoritative reference point for institutions as they consciously, actively and
systematically assure the academic quality and standards of their programmes,
awards and qualifications. The Code will assume that, taking into account nationally
agreed principles and practices, each institution has its own systems for
independent verification both of its quality and standards and of the effectiveness of
its quality assurance systems. In developing the Code, extensive advice is being
sought from a range of knowledgeable practitioners.
3 Each section of the Code is structured into a series of precepts and accompanying
outline guidance. The precepts identify thos