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Joint degrees and collaborative provision audit?

• Stephen Jackson

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Collaborative provision audit (CPA)

• CPA provides a means for scrutinising the
  collaborative provision of a higher education
  institution with degree-awarding powers where the
  provision is too large or complex to be included
  in the institutional audit.
• CPA examines the effectiveness of an awarding
  institutions internal quality assurance
  structures and mechanisms for its collaborative
  provision, in the light of the Code of practice
  of the assurance of academic standards in higher
  education (Code of practice).

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Code of practice

• A13 An awarding institution that engages with
  another authorised awarding body jointly to
  provide a programme of study leading to a dual or
  joint academic award should be able to satisfy
  itself that it has the legal capacity to do so,
  and that the academic standard of the award,
  referenced to The framework for higher education
  qualifications in England, Wales and Northern
  Ireland (the Scottish Credit and Qualifications
  Framework in Scotland), meets its own
  expectations, irrespective of the expectations of
  the partner awarding body.

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Aims and approaches

• CPA shares the aims of institutional audit to
  meet the public interest in knowing that awarding
  institutions in England are, through their
  collaborative partners
• providing higher education, awards and
  qualifications of both an acceptable quality and
  an appropriate academic standard and
• exercising their legal powers to award degrees in
  a proper manner.
• CPA examines several examples of the awarding
  institutions quality assurance and academic
  standards processes for its collaborative
  provision, as given effect by individual
  partnership arrangements.

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Types of joint award

• Shared programmes between UK higher education
  institutions with degree awarding powers.
• Shared programmes with higher education
  institutions in other countries.
• Dual awards.
• Shared recognition agreements (Northern
  Consortium UK).
• Joint validation arrangements (University
  Vocational Awards Council).

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Overseas audit

• 2002 University of Nottingham and the National
  University of Singapore,
• joint delivery and award of an LLM (joint
  masters) in International Commercial Law.
• Evaluation of University of Nottinghams
  stewardship of the quality and standards of its
  joint award.