SRUC | QESR

The Quality Enhancement and Standards Review (QESR), a peer review process, for SRUC took place on 24 April 2024, following a comprehensive submission of required documentation. On the day, a number of sessions took place with the Review panel including meetings with key contacts, colleagues and students.

There are only two possible outcomes from this process: confident, or not confident. The Review team reached the following conclusion for SRUC:

“From the evidence presented, the review team is confident that Scotland's Rural College is making effective progress in continuing to monitor, review and enhance its higher education provision to enable effective arrangements to be in place for managing academic standards and the quality of the student learning experience.”

In addition, an area of good practice was identified, and only two recommendations for action, both of which are areas that SRUC has been engaged with.

Good practice & recommendations for action

The QESR Report is published on the QAA website and identified the below area of good practice and recommendations for action.

: The QESR team considered the annual monitoring process undertaken at programme and departmental level to be highly effective, robust, well-documented and consistently implemented across SRUC. The impact of the recently expanded annual dialogue meetings on quality enhancement and the student experience were evident through the identification of good practice, actions arising and areas for development (paragraph 32).
: SRUC should consistently implement the framework supporting professional development for all those engaged in teaching and that support is in place and training is completed prior to teaching for postgraduate research (PGR) students who teach on a voluntary or employed basis (paragraph 17).
: SRUC should address issues concerning access to, and communication about, the support and opportunities available to distance-learning and PGR students to help ensure parity and consistency of the student experience (paragraph 26).

Our Action Plan

The SRUC QESR Action Plan below has been developed to address identified recommendations and continue to monitor progress of the completion of the relevant actions.

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Quality Enhancement and Standards Review (QESR)

Good practice & recommendations for action

Good practice: Annual monitoring process and the role of annual dialogue meetings in quality enhancement

Recommendation for action: Consistent implementation of the framework supporting professional development for teachers

Recommendation for action: Student support for blended learning and PGR students

Our Action Plan