Academic partnerships allow providers without their own awarding powers to offer degrees and other higher education qualifications to their students through validation or subcontractual arrangements.
These partnerships form a key component of the sector's quality assurance landscape but they are little understood, with a scarcity of guidance on good practice and information on current arrangements across the sector. IHE is working with our partners Pinsent Masons and a steering group of key sector stakeholders to address these issues.
We have completed the first stage of the project which took the form of a survey of teaching providers.
A survey of awarding providers is now underway, while student feedback is also being sought.
The project will complete with a report to be published in the autumn of 2023.
