Enhancement Themes

• Enhancement Themes Website
• Current Themes
• Past Themes
• Outcomes of Themes
  

Enhancement Themes Website
The QAA has established a website to support work on the Quality Enhancement Themes and to publish details of forthcoming events, as well as to publish in due course supporting material for workshops, outcomes of workshops, and research reports. http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk

Current Themes
The current themes are: Graduates for the 21st Century and Managing Enhancement.

Completed Themes
Completed themes include:

• Assessment and Integrative Assessment
• Employability
• The First Year
• Flexible Delivery
• Research-Teaching Linkages
• Responding to Student Needs

Outcomes of Themes
The outcomes of these themes are available via the links above for completed themes.

Six reports from the First Year Enhancement Theme are now available.

• Sector-wide discussion: the nature and purposes of the first year
• Personalisation of the first year
• Transition to and during the first year
• Personal Development Planning in the First Year (draft)
• Curriculum design for the First Year (draft)
• Sharing and reflecting on international experiences and initiatives

Due to the volume of themes outcomes a guide has been produced, which has been divided into the chronology of the student journey, from application, to graduation and beyond. 

• Getting There: from Application to Enrolment
• Staying There: Transition and the First Year
• Being There: Course design, Teaching and Learning, Assessment and other issues
• Moving on from There: Employability and Life long learning

The guide will be added to as Themes work progresses and will be subject to frequent updating and review.