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
Enhancement Theme general leaflet PDF version
Research-Teaching Linkages: Enhancing Graduate Attributes leaflet PDF version

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

Publications

Research Teaching Linkages
Theme Discipline Overview Report' PDF version
Sector-Wide Project - Report Volume 1 PDF version
Sector-Wide Project - Report Volume 2 PDF version
Health and Social Care PDF version
Business and Management PDF version
Physical Sciences PDF version
Arts and Social Sciences PDF version
Medicine, Dentistry and Vet PDF version
Life Sciences PDF version
Information and Mathematical Sciences PDF version
Engineering and the Built Environment PDF version
First Year Experience
Overview of Enhancement Theme 2006-08: The aims, achievements and challenges PDF version
Sector-wide discussion: the nature and purposes of the first year PDF version
Sharing and reflecting on international experiences and initiatives PDF version
Student expectations, experiences and reflections on the first year PDF version
Curriculum design for the First Year PDF version
Transforming assessment and feedback PDF version
Peer support in the first year PDF version
Personal Development Planning in the First Year PDF version
Personalisation of the first year PDF version
Introducing scholarship skills: academic writing PDF version
Transition to and during the first year PDF version
Integrative Assessment
Monitoring Students' Experiences of Assessment PDF version
Balancing Assessment of and Assessment for Learning PDF version
Blending Assignments and Assessments PDF version
Managing Assessment Practices and Procedures PDF version
Flexible Delivery
Flexible Delivery: Key Outcomes Overview PDF version
Flexible Delivery: an evaluation of the use of the virtual learning environment in higher education across Scotland PDF version
Flexible Delivery: flexible programmes PDF version
Flexible Delivery: JISC and Higher Education Academy resources to support flexible delivery PDF version
Flexible Delivery: the flexible curriculum PDF version
A practical guide to providing flexible learning in further and higher education PDF version
Employability
Employability: Key Outcomes Overview PDF version
Benchmarking Employability: A Scottish Perspective PDF version
Employability: Engaging Employers PDF version
Enhancing student employability: Innovative projects across the curriculum PDF version
Working together: Enhancing Students' Employability, Partnerships between Institutions and students PDF version
The Skills for Business Network: A briefing paper for Scottish higher education institutions PDF version
Employability: Effective learning and employability PDF version
Assessment
Assessment Key Outcomes Overview PDF version
Reflections on Assessment: Volume I PDF version
Reflections on Assessment: Volume II PDF version
Responding to Student Needs
Student Needs Key Outcomes Overview PDF version
Enhancing Practice: Responding to Student Needs PDF version

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.