• To review recent HEFCE and LSDA reports on HE programmes in the context of the White Paper on the Future of Higher Education
• To give an overview of recent QAA developments
• To enable participants to understand the similarities and differences between QAA self-valuation and the Common Inspection Framework
• To explore participants' experience of FE/HE collaborative partnerships
• To consider the implications for staff deployment and development
• To reflect on and evaluate participants' own practice
  

10.00 Introduction and overview

10.15 The White Paper and recent reports:

• Types of foundation degree: a case study approach (HEFCE)
• Intermediate-level qualifications in HE: an international assessment (HEFCE)
• Progression from HNC/Ds to Honours Degrees: diversity, complexity and change (LSDA)

11.15 Coffee

11.30 Workshop session:

• Foundation degrees
• Articulation and progression from HND to degree
• FE/HE Partnerships

12.30 Lunch

13.30 QAA Review and the CIF:

• Key features
• Self-evaluation
• The review process

14.30 Tea

14.45 Staffing for quality:

• Deployment
• Development
• Managing the organisational structure

15.40 Review, summary and close

15.45 Depart