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Responses to External Consultations

Several institutions, particularly the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) periodically issue consultative documents to HE institutions in order to gauge the opinions of the academic community on new initiatives and policies.

Please find below links to consultation documents and the relevant University of Bristol responses that were returned.

Public information about higher education - Consultation on changes to information published by institutions	Online submission - March 2011
Review of Academic Infrastructure	University Response - March 2011
Review of the UK Professional Standards Framework for Higher Education	University Response - Jan 2011
Review of the HEFCE Teaching Funding Method 2010	Online submission - July 2010
Future Support for Teaching enhancement and widening participation	Online submission - November 2008
Withdrawal of funding for equivalent or lower qualifications (ELQs)	Online Submission - December 2007
Delivery Partnership: Improving the higher education applications process a 'Gathered Field'	University response - April 2007
HEFCE Funding Method - Developing a funding method for teaching	University response -March 2007
Universities UK - Leitch Review of Skills  Skills in the UK: the long-term challenge.	University response - Feb 2007
QAA Causes for concern - Handling causes for concern in English higher and further education institutions.	University response - Feb 2007
Education and Skills Committee - new inquiries into Higher Education regarding Bologna	University response - January 2007
Measuring and Recording Student Achievement (Burgess Group) - UK Honours Degree: provision of Information. Second stage consultation September 2006	University response - November 2006
Measuring and Recording Student Achievement (Burgess Group) - Proposals for National Credit Arrangements for the use of Academic Credit in Higher Education in England – Second stage consultation March 2006	University response - May 2006
QAA draft Handbook for the revised institutional audit process for higher education institutions in England and Northern Ireland	University response - April 2006
QAA draft revised Code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education, Section 6: Assessment of students; Section 7: Programme design, approval, monitoring and review; Section 10:Admissions to higher education	University response - March 2006
QAA Circular letter 01/06 - Consultation paper on interim reviews	University response - March 2006
QAA Circular letter 15/05 - Proposals for guidance on the minimum content of published versions of programme specifications	University response - February 2006
Measuring and Recording Student Achievement (Burgess Group) - Proposals for National Credit Arrangements for the use of Academic Credit in Higher Education in England – First stage consultation September 2005	University response - November 2005
Measuring and Recording Student Achievement (Burgess Group) - UK Honours Degree: provision of Information	University response - November 2005
Operational description for the revised institutional audit process for higher education institutions in England and Northern Ireland
DfES - Consultation on elearning strategy - July 2003	Draft response for comments by 16 Jan
HEFCE - Consultation on Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - July 2003
HEFCE - Formal Consultation on Improving Standards in Postgraduate Research Degrees - May 2003	University Response - Sept 2003
HEFCE, UUK, SCOP - Final Report of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Committee on the Future Needs and Support for Quality Enhancement of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education - January 2003	University Response - March 2003
Informal Consultation from HEFCE on Improving Standards in Postgraduate Research Degrees - January 2003	University Response - March 2003
Quality assurance in higher education - Proposals for consultation. Higher Education Funding Council for England, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, Universities UK, Standing Conference of Principals - July 2001	University response - October 2001
Consultation from Universities UK on HE Progress Files - October 2000	University Response - October 2000
DfEE Consultation document on Foundation Degrees - February 2000	University Response - February 2000
A consultative paper on Higher Education qualifications framework for England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EWNI)and for Scotland - October 1999	University Response - October 1999
An agenda for Quality: Consultative paper on developing the Quality Assurance and Standards Framework for UK Higher Education ? March 1998	University Response - May 1998