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Higher Education Links

The following links may be helpful to those interested in enhancing the student experience. Please note we are not responsible for the content of these sites.


Higher Education in Scotland

AGCAS Scotland
The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) Scotland

ASC
ASC (Association of Scotland's Colleges) is the policy and representative voice of Scotland's Further Education colleges.

College to University
FE-HE links and progression routes in Scotland

HE Academy logoHigher Education Academy

Please see the following HEA links:

NUS Scotland
National Union of Students in Scotland

The Scottish Government
The devolved government of Scotland

SCQF
Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework

SCRE
Scottish Council for Research in Education

SFC
Scottish Funding Council

IRISS
In December 2007 SIESWE (the Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education) changed its name to the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS).The Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education (SIESWE, known widely in the social services sector as "the Institute") had been established in 2003 as a collaboration of the nine Scottish universities involved in teaching social work, with the aim of transforming the education and training of Scotland’s future social workers.

sparqs
student participation in quality scotland

SQA
Scottish Qualifications Authority

Universities Scotland
The representative body of all Scottish Universities


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Higher Education in UK

Aimhigher
Aimhigher helps learners and potential applicants to higher education, particularly those from groups under-represented in higher education to:

  • raise their awareness and understanding of the opportunities open to them
  • raise their achievement and attainment
  • get supported transitions into higher education

AMOSSHE
Association of Managers of Student Services in Higher Education

Connect Funding search engine
Identify sources of financial support for education projects, services and research. All current funding opportunities across the sector are listed here.

Connect portal services
The Higher Education Academy's Connect portal services provide quick and easy access to information, resources and networking opportunities specifically tailored to the needs of the learning and teaching communities...

HE Academy logo Higher Education Academy

Please see the following HEA links relevant to specific Themes:

Assessment

  1. The effects of programme assessment environments on student learning
  2. To examine the impact that introducing a new method of assessment: Practically Assessed Structured Scenarios (PASS) has had on vocational courses in events management and whether it has relevance for other vocational courses
  3. Increasing the quality of feedback on assignments
  4. Staff and student perceptions of feedback quality in the context of widening participation
  5. Using role and reference grammar to support computer-assisted assessment of free text answers
  6. Exploring the NSS: Assessment and Feedback Issues

Integrative Assessment

  1. Exploring the NSS: Assessment and Feedback Issues
  2. Assessment for Managers

Responding to student needs

  1. Exploring practice and participation in transition to post-graduate social science study
  2. Surveys
  3. Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES)
  4. National Student Survey
  5. Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES)
  6. First Year Experience Survey
  7. The first-year experience in higher education in the UK: Report on Phase 1 of a project funded by the Higher Education Academy
  8. The first-year experience in higher education in the UK: Final Report
  9. The first-year experience literature review

Employability

  1. Integrating employers in effective support for student work-based learning (WBL): an evidence base to inform innovative policy and practice
  2. Student diversity, extra curricular activities and perceptions of graduate outcomes
  3. Extending conceptualisations of the diversity and value of extra-curricula activities: a cultural capital approach to graduate outcomes

First Year

  1. Improving argumentative skills in first-year undergraduates
  2. Widening participation
  3. First Year Experience Survey
  4. The first-year experience in higher education in the UK: Report on Phase 1 of a project funded by the Higher Education Academy
  5. The first-year experience in higher education in the UK: Final Report
  6. The first-year experience literature review

Research-Teaching Linkages

  1. Relations between research-active teachers and student learning
  2. Ontology, identity formation and lifelong learning outcomes: theorising the relationship between discipline-based research and teaching
  3. Academics' experiences and conceptions of research and teaching: developing the relationship between these activities to enhance student learning within different disciplines and institutions
  4. Tribes, Territories, Research and Teaching: Enhancing the Teaching-Research Nexus
  5. An investigation into the mechanisms that facilitate and encourage the research-teaching nexus in Science and Engineering Departments: staff and student perspectives
  6. Characteristics of high quality research environments

International benchmarking student support

  1. Case studies

JISC
Joint Information Systems Committee

National Postgraduate Committee
Representative body for postgraduate students in the UK

QAA
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

SEDA
Staff and Educational Development Association

UCAS
Universities & Colleges Admissions Service


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Higher Education - Worldwide

Bologna Process
Towards the European higher education area

Irish Universities Quality Board