If you’ve ben engaged in the higher education policy landscape in the past few months you will know that in July QAA announced it would no longer consent to being the Designated Quality Body (DQB) in England beyond 31 March 2023.
This decision was driven by the need to maintain our compliance with the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) and therefore our position on the European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR). It was our desire to keep pace with ambitious international practice rather than prioritise scrutiny of the baseline. We were unable to do both.
