Academic quality assurance
Academic quality
The Academic Quality team is here to ensure quality and compliance across our academic programmes.
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We provide guidance and support with creating new programmes, monitoring existing programmes, and working with collaborators outside the University.
If you are a current student, you can see how we support the quality of your course and how you can get involved on our Information for students page.
Jump to a section of this page:
- Academic quality standards: including our approach to academic quality, our degree apprenticeship framework, external examiners, research degree quality, and professional, statutory and regulatory bodies.
- Programme design, amendment, approval and monitoring: including validation and revalidation, programme or module amendments, programme review, and suspension or termination.
- Collaborative provision: including strategy, scope, our partners, approval processes, monitoring, and articulation and progression agreements.
Academic quality standards
Our approach to academic quality
Our strategy for ensuring that our academic programmes meet internal and external academic and professional standards.
Degree Apprenticeship framework
Our framework for degree apprenticeships, including strategy, end point assessment, work-based learning, and governance and monitoring.
External examiners
Information about external examiners appointed by York St John University, including the nomination process, details of the examiner role, and payments.
Research degree quality
Our approach to managing the quality and standards of research degrees, including staff research roles, thesis submission and examinations, and ethics and integrity.
Professional, statutory and regulatory bodies
The professional, statutory and regulatory bodies (PSRBs) who accredit or approve awards at York St John.
Programme design, amendment, approval and monitoring
Programme design
Guidance and support for designing a new course programme or module, including our Academic Framework and external requirements.
Validation and revalidation
Our process and timeline for the validation and revalidation of programmes at York St John.
Programme or module amendments
Guidance and processes for making amendments to academic programmes or modules, including amendment levels, the request process, and how amendments are considered.
Programme monitoring and review
Our approach to monitoring and reviewing programmes to ensure academic quality.
Programme suspension or termination
Guidance on how programmes at York St John can be suspended for recruitment or terminated.
Collaborative provision
Collaborative provision strategy, scope and partners
An overview of collaborative provision at York St John University, including our strategy, key partners, and committees.
Partner and programme approval
An overview of the process to approve a collaborative partner and first programme.
Monitoring collaborative provision
An overview of how we monitor collaborative provision partnerships at York St John.
Articulation agreements and progression arrangements
How articulation agreements and progression arrangements relating to collaborative provision are created and approved.
