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Improving the Quality of Education: the impact of quality assessment on Institutions - QSC10This report is based on a study commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to undertake an analysis of the extent to which the recommendations for quality improvement made by subject peer assessors have been acted upon.
The report describes the background to the introduction of quality assessment to higher education in England and examines the impact it has had on institutions, departments and the academic staff who work in them.
The report considers the impacts respectively of preparing a self-assessment, being on the receiving end of an assessment visit, the assessment report and its recommendations. It shows how the impact of assessment differs between institutions and subjects and how the experience of assessment can be shaped dramatically by the approach taken by the principal players: assessors and assessed.