...Prof. Barry O'Mahoney; Marina Brinkman-Staneva Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight some inadequacies of the position of lecturers’ qualifications to design assessments within hospitality curricula while meeting the requirements of international and national quality frameworks.The...

.../methodology/approach A literature review and content analysis of National Qualifications Frameworks was conducted to analyse how learning levels differ within and between degrees and diplomas with specific application to the Bachelor of Applied Business Studies degree and the New Zealand Diploma of Business...

...‐known that LSAT scores together with the applicant's college grades constitute an important part of admission consideration. Winai Wongsurawat can be contacted at: winai@ait.ac.th © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Examinations Assessment Qualifications Standards Law schools...

... Assessment Qualifications Empowerment Quality assurance In the last decade of the twentieth century, there was a major expansion of doctoral studies and a widening of the types of doctorate that may be undertaken in the UK. Although attention has been given to improving supervision and research...

.... If, on the other hand, their questions are treated as appropriate, as standard good practice, then they will progress in their preparations. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Supervisors Rhetoric Qualifications Education Analysis Finally, many students who have completed a thesis experience a return...

... and sometimes combative sports. There are echoes here of rugby football, boxing, tag wrestling and horse‐racing. But in this instance the game is fixed. Hilda knows she has won before the contest begins. Metaphors Social responsibility Research Students Academic staff Qualifications They said...

... Training techniques Training Qualifications Qualitative techniques This paper considers specific issues related to research degree examining, namely: use of examiners’ preliminary reports by candidates and supervisors; scope of criteria used by examiners to make judgements and the remit...

...), the process and time taken to reach a decision and the potential outcomes of the assessment. Institutions are left to interpret this code with a resulting significant variation of practice. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Qualifications Diversity Research methods Universities National curriculum...

... and a great deal of uncertainty about others. Some examples are provided below. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Assessment Qualifications Research Quality culture Academic staff Tests The doctoral degree stands at the pinnacle of a hierarchy of academic qualifications in higher education (UK...

.... Concludes with the view that there are quality assurance arguments for the two routes to a PhD to be merged into a single set of regulations which allow doctoral theses to be an integral mix of published and unpublished research outcomes. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Quality assurance Qualifications...

... to go to if things are going badly. Frankly she doesn’t have enough time (PhD student). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Qualifications Research Training Students Supervisors The Wellcome Trust has a remit to fund biomedical research that will lead to improvements in human and animal...

...D. Howard; Malcolm Shaw; Stephen Hoddell; Deborah Street; Helena Wildblood Since the 1980s, the traditional research‐based route to a PhD and the PhD by publication have been joined by practice‐based doctorates, professional doctorates and recently by the new route PhD. The National Qualifications...

...D. Howard; Malcolm Shaw; Malcolm Shaw; D. Howard Green The Quality Assurance Agency’s (QAA) qualifications framework has resulted in hives of benchmarking activity in 42 subject areas focussed on defining acceptable standards of performance exclusively for first degree awards. There appears...

...‐specific awards and a nationally accredited award known as the National Diploma in Design (NDD), a vocational qualification in the traditions of mastery of craft skills. Following a major review of art and design provision, a new, more academically based award was established, termed the Diploma in Art...

...” examination. Issues addressed include: the composition of PhD examining panels and the roles of individual examiners; the training and qualification of examiners; the purpose and nature of the oral examination; the tension between examination of the process of training and that of the “finished product...

... men, one unspecified); 2. (2) internal examiners (n = 46 – 11 women, 34 men, one unspecified); 3. (4) supervisors (n = 42 – 8 women, 34 men)[2]; 4. (5) candidates (n = 88 – 46 women, 42 men). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Qualifications Research Students...

.... Finally the paper reflects on the role that the MRes might play in the further development of research training in doctoral programmes in the UK. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Qualifications Research Training Higher education The 1993 White Paper Realising Our Potential formalised...

...‐based programme specification for each subject within the degree programme covering all four Levels in the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework. It describes the structure of a multidisciplinary programme specification and considers the issues it will raise. © MCB UP Limited 2000...

... of a complete and overarching framework of qualifications for the UK; the development of a national template for individual programme specifications; the development of benchmarking information and threshold standards across 41 subject areas; the development of institutional codes of practice and institutional...

... for differences in the values, views and experience which each member brings to the event. Ethics Higher education Qualifications United Kingdom Universities Validation This paper seeks to illuminate the current culture of the process of validation of professional degrees[ 1 ] within British...