Annual report : 2004-2005 Annual review / Higher Education Funding Council for England.
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- Date:
- 2005
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: Annual report : 2004-2005 Annual review / Higher Education Funding Council for England. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![teaching, and its co-operative activities with groups such as the Quality Assurance Agency and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. The academy is a company owned by the sector’s representative bodies — Universities UK and the Standing Conference of Principals. Jointly with contributions from the other UK funding bodies, we provide £14 million towards the running of the academy. www.heacademy.ac.uk The e-Learning Research Centre was | founded in 2003 and is run from the | Higher Education Academy and the | Universities of Manchester and Southampton. The centre undertakes | research in e-learning, with a focus on integrating e-learning into mainstream higher education programmes. The academy will disseminate its research findings to the sector. Key activities include defining e-learning processes and understanding how they contribute to enhancing learning and teaching. »/< . Assuring standards | ASE OK eo As well as enhancing the quality of the | Witnéy ~~} \ ; ay EE tal teaching we fund, we have to ensure that it is assessed. Assessments are carried out by the Quality Assurance |_ Agency for Higher Education (QAA). + = { { NJ % j OXFORDSHIRE ‘ham 20 ee] £Abirgdon ef Og fa ps RSS, 4Didcot of A + fantagee——_ 1-3, Wallingford: Each institution must have procedures to set, maintain and review its own quality and standards; and to provide information on the web for the benefit of students and employers. Audits by the QAA ensure that these procedures are effective and that the information is useful, reliable and up to date. WWww.qaa.ac.uk Expanding student choice Different types of courses and ways of learning continue to be developed to meet students’ needs. We have supported the development of foundation degrees, which are now available in 22 vocationally oriented subject areas, from art and design to veterinary nursing. The foundation degree brand has become more established in 2004-05, supported by Foundation Degree Forward. Nearly 38,000 students enrolled on foundation degree courses in 2004-05, and a significant proportion of the extra 26,000 student places to be created in 2005-06 will be for foundation degrees. www.fdf.ac.uk Learning online The e-University was wound-up in 2004-05 with a commitment to learn and disseminate lessons from its experience. We will continue to support e-learning in individual] institutions as part of a new ten-year](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31850777_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
