This free Quality Assurance Framework for HE Settings is designed to help higher education leaders, quality teams and programme teams carry out structured, evidence-informed reviews of provision. It provides a clear framework for evaluating practice across key areas including curriculum and programme design, learning and teaching, assessment and academic standards, student experience and support, inclusion and equity, participation and outcomes, digital and blended learning, quality leadership, and partnerships or work-based learning.
The framework uses a clear scale from Urgent Improvement Required through to Leading Practice, helping institutions identify not only whether provision is secure, but where practice is strong, transferable or in need of targeted improvement. It supports careful reflection on curriculum coherence, academic challenge, assessment validity, feedback quality, student belonging, accessibility, continuation, achievement, employability, digital experience, quality assurance processes and the impact of improvement actions.
Use this resource to carry out focused HE quality reviews at institution, faculty, programme, module, campus or thematic level. The included review forms can support learning and teaching reviews, assessment and standards reviews, student experience reviews, participation and outcomes reviews, digital learning reviews, partnership and placement reviews, and senior quality self-assessment. Providers can use the framework independently or integrate it directly into our Flourish Quality Assurance software, where HE quality evidence can be stored, analysed and tracked using powerful reporting tools such as heat maps, radar charts, trend analysis and action tracking.