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24/11/2025 - Student Partnership Powers Scotland’s Quality Reform, New Paper Shows
A recent paper presented at the European Quality Assurance Forum examines how embedding genuine student partnership within Scotland’s tertiary quality framework is reshaping institutional and national responses to change. Drawing on analysis by Debra MacFarlane, Clare Peddie, Megan Brown, and Tom McDermott, QA in Times of Crises - Ensuring Stability, Autonomy and International Cooperation in Higher Education argues that Scotland’s long-standing enhancement-led quality system - anchored in its Quality Enhancement Framework (QEF) - is now being reinforced and future-proofed through structural reforms that centre student voices.
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