Enhancement Themes

The Enhancement Themes initiative aims to enhance the student learning experience in Scottish higher education by identifying specific areas (Themes) for development. The Themes encourage academic and support staff and students to share current good practice and collectively generate ideas and models for innovation in learning and teaching.

Regional Representative

The Subject Centre has established a network of regional representatives throughout UK Higher Education Institutions to ensure that every region is aware of, and can avail of, the work and the services provided by the Subject Centre and to facilitate the dissemination of identified best practice.

Our regional representative for Scotland is Dr Janet Hughes

HEA Academy Scotland (Higher Education Academy)

Scotland has a distinctive higher education system, and the concept of Academy Scotland has been developed to recognise and support this.
Its aims are to:

• Support the professional development of individual staff
• Support institutions
• Support communities of practice through the Academy's Subject Centres
• Contribute to national policy

sparqs

sparqs is a free service which is funded by the Scottish Funding Council to assist and support students, students' associations and institutions to improve the effectiveness and engagement in quality assurance and enhancement in institutions across Scotland.

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) provides independent assessment of how higher education institutions in the UK maintain their academic standards and quality.

Scottish Funding Council (SFC)

The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) distributes more than £1.6 billion to Scotland’s colleges and universities for teaching and learning, research and other activities in support of Scottish government priorities.

Lifelong Learning Strategy for Scotland

This plan sets out a five-year strategy to boost lifelong learning in Scotland. It follows the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee's recent inquiry into lifelong learning.

Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework promotes lifelong learning in Scotland. It supports everyone in Scotland, including learning providers and employers by:

• Helping people of all ages and circumstances to get access to appropriate education and training so they can meet their full potential
• Helping employers, learners and the general public to understand the full range of Scottish qualifications, how qualifications relate to each other and to other forms of learning, and how different types of qualification can contribute to improving the skills of the workforce

The Framework:

• Describes the courses and programmes that lead to qualifications
• Helps you develop `progression routes' for individual to follow
• Allows individuals to make the most of the opportunities to transfer credit points between qualifications