Quality Assurance
There is a special challenge to the higher education sector in sustaining and enhancing further the quality of our higher education system as we strive to achieve key objectives such as doubling our output of PhDs or growing our honours degree graduation output by over 7,000 students per year. This growth will be accompanied by a greater diversity in our student population, including diversity in terms of previous academic attainment, which will create challenges regarding the development of new and appropriate teaching and learning methodologies. This growth must be managed so that high levels in the quality of teaching and learning and in assessment continue to drive the system.
Current quality assurance projects include the Irish Universities Quality Board Review and more generally the Strategic Innovation Fund.