Review pans UEL finance course

Article Abstract:

In a teaching review report issued in week commencing 15 March 2004 the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), a quality watchdog, delivered one of the worst ever inspection reports for a degree course in the UK in its damning critique of a finance and accounting degree offered at the University of East London. In the report the QAA notes that it has "no confidence" in the academic standards of the course and highlights a number of failings, including poor student achievement and high dropout rates.

Study and teaching, Accountants

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Poor report casts doubt on flagship initiative

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London South Bank University has become the first of what is expected to be a series of universities to have one of its new two-year foundation degree courses branded a failure by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). The QAA reported that it had "no confidence" in the academic standards of the university's early-years foundation degrees for those working in childcare, a move that is seen as a setback for foundation degrees, which are a key element of the Government's higher education policy.

Services information, Services, Educational aspects

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2006 degrees will be 'suspect'

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Universities are risking the integrity of degree programmes and undermining core academic values by creating contingency marking plans for final-year exam students, according to Gillian Howie, senior lecturer at Liverpool University's philosophy department. Degrees held by 2006 graduates will 'for ever be suspect' as the contingency plans being put in place show contempt for academic standards.

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