Enhancement Themes Publications

This section of the website is a resource of enhancement material. You will find all the published Enhancement Themes outcomes to date available for download here. For further information on each Theme, please see the Themes section.

Please also check the links page for information offered by other organisations involved in enhancement.

Leaflets
Graduates for the 21st Century: Integrating the Enhancement Themes leaflet PDF version (148kb)
Enhancement Theme general leaflet PDF version (605kb)
Research-Teaching Linkages: Enhancing Graduate Attributes leaflet PDF version (86kb)

To order printed copies of the leaflets: QAA Scotland, 183 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5QD or Email:enhancement@qaa.ac.uk

Publications

Overview of Themes
Things that make a difference: lessons from the Enhancement Themes PDF version (164kb)
Graduates for the 21st Century
The First Year: Back to the future
PDF version (171kb)
First things first: the first year in Scottish higher education
 PDF version (407kb)
Enhancing research-teaching linkages as a way to improve the development of employability attributes
 PDF version (292kb)
Thinking strategically about employability and graduate attributes: Universities and enhancing learning for beyond university
 PDF version (298kb)
Four recent papers on assessment and feedback with significant implications for practice
 PDF version (252kb)
Classroom-based response to student needs PDF version (286kb)
Research Teaching Linkages
Theme Discipline Overview Report' PDF version (234kb)
Sector-Wide Project - Report Volume 1 PDF version (342kb)
Sector-Wide Project - Report Volume 2 PDF version (167kb)
Health and Social Care PDF version (216kb)
Business and Management PDF version (423kb)
Physical Sciences PDF version (329kb)
Arts and Social Sciences PDF version (341kb)
Medicine, Dentistry and Vet PDF version (304kb)
Life Sciences PDF version (254kb)
Information and Mathematical Sciences PDF version (744kb)
Engineering and the Built Environment PDF version (351kb)
Creative and Cultural Practice

Case study presentations		 PDF version (2.07mb)
   
First Year Experience
Overview of Enhancement Theme 2006-08: The aims, achievements and challenges PDF version (157kb)
Sector-wide discussion: the nature and purposes of the first year PDF version (235kb)
Sharing and reflecting on international experiences and initiatives PDF version (153kb)
Student expectations, experiences and reflections on the first year PDF version (460kb)
Curriculum design for the First Year PDF version (334kb)
Transforming assessment and feedback PDF version (290kb)
Peer support in the first year PDF version (287kb)
Personal Development Planning in the First Year PDF version (263kb)
Personalisation of the first year PDF version (445kb)
Introducing scholarship skills: academic writing PDF version (208kb)
Transition to and during the first year PDF version (456kb)
Integrative Assessment
Monitoring Students' Experiences of Assessment PDF version (180kb)
Balancing Assessment of and Assessment for Learning PDF version (212kb)
Blending Assignments and Assessments PDF version (194kb)
Managing Assessment Practices and Procedures PDF version (176kb)
Flexible Delivery
Flexible Delivery: Key Outcomes Overview PDF version (751kb)
Flexible Delivery: an evaluation of the use of the virtual learning environment in higher education across Scotland PDF version (780kb)
Flexible Delivery: flexible programmes PDF version (574kb)
Flexible Delivery: JISC and Higher Education Academy resources to support flexible delivery PDF version (501kb)
Flexible Delivery: the flexible curriculum PDF version (730kb)
Flexible Delivery: A practical guide to providing flexible learning in further and higher education PDF version (1.02mb)
Employability
Employability: Key Outcomes Overview PDF version (152kb)
Benchmarking Employability: A Scottish Perspective PDF version (201kb)
Employability: Engaging Employers PDF version (261kb)
Enhancing student employability: Innovative projects across the curriculum PDF version (980kb)
Working together: Enhancing Students' Employability, Partnerships between Institutions and students PDF version (551kb)
The Skills for Business Network: A briefing paper for Scottish higher education institutions PDF version (204kb)
Employability: Effective learning and employability PDF version (733kb)
Assessment
Assessment Key Outcomes Overview PDF version (148kb)
Reflections on Assessment: Volume I PDF version (1.75mb)
Reflections on Assessment: Volume II PDF version (1.41mb)
Responding to Student Needs
Student Needs Key Outcomes Overview PDF version (169kb)
Enhancing Practice: Responding to Student Needs PDF version (874kb)

Printed copies of the above publications can be ordered from:

If they are available in print, Enhancement Themes publications are free to all those within the UK.

Please see the QAA Publishing Policy for further information.