Quality Assurance

Quality assurance underpins the University’s excellence in student education. Find information about our quality assurance mechanisms here.

The Quality Assurance team supports the development of learning and teaching policy and procedures. It works with faculties, schools and other central services to implement them. Its Committee papers can be found on SharePoint. 

Quality assurance-related policies

Find guidance on approval processes and mechanisms the University uses to assure the quality of student education academic provision.

Programme and module approval

New courses and changed courses need formal approval before they can be offered to students.

Committees

The University operates a system of deliberative committees relating to taught student education and to research postgraduate studies.

Student education review

A number of formal reviews at school and university level evaluate modules, programmes, school procedures and other issues.

Collaborative Provision

Collaborative provision involves the award of academic credit that is delivered, assessed or supported in partnership between two or more organisations.

Responding to your feedback

The University takes student views seriously and uses student feedback to inform decision making processes and improve the student experience.

Teaching Enhancement Scheme

TES is the University's flexible and supportive teaching development scheme.

Module evaluations

Find out more information about module evaluations, including how to use Explorance Blue, the University system that we use for module evaluation.

Information for Directors of Student Education

For Directors of Student Education, listed below are hyperlinks to information on the committee structure for taught student education, annual quality assurance requirements, and the procedures/guidance for implementing policy areas that fall within their remit.

Regulatory Reporting of Data

Like all universities, Leeds has a variety of regulatory reports that it is obliged to provide to statutory bodies. One of these is the HESA student return, which is due to change significantly from August 2022. This page explains how we are preparing for that change.

School Action Planning Process

The School Action Planning process is a holistic approach for the implementation and reporting of all School level actions arising from a wide range of student education review and monitoring activity.

Accreditation (taught programmes)

A number of our programmes have external accreditation.

External examiners

External examiners are an essential part of the University's quality assurance processes. The role of the external examiner is to provide assurance to the University that its assessment system is fair and operated equitably, and to ensure comparability of the University's standards with those in peer institutions.