University of Warwick: "This module is designed to connect evaluation of teaching and assessment of student learning, both at theoretical and practical levels. Building on earlier learning about curriculum theory and design, students will develop understanding of the testing of learning outcomes and objectives, in order to determine if learners have achieved mastery and if the delivery of teaching had been effective."

University of Cambridge: "No department in the University has scored higher." An example of the competitive aspect of quality management.

This is mostly a sample of one successful department's focus on teaching.

University of York's Performance in HEFCE Teaching Quality Assessment/Subject Review - 1995/6

This year’s organizing theme of “The Creative Campus” for the Improving University Teaching Conference will provide an opportunity to bring together creative thinking about higher education in all its rich dimensions.

This conference aims to bring together a wide range of people involved in enhancement from lecturers and students to educational developers, researchers and policy makers in conversations which examine notions of improvement and change, explore the implications for the sector and share experiences and research findings.

Higher education institutions produce a set of teaching quality information (TQI) with a view to assuring quality and standards of teaching, and meeting the information needs of stakeholders, particularly students and their advisors.

Nottingham University's Handbook includes sections on: # 17. Academic appeals and misconduct; # 18. Attendance policy; # 19. Personal development planning

The most recent Teaching Quality Assessment by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council in 1996 awarded the St Andrews University School of History, consisting of the Departments of Mediaeval History, Modern History and Scottish History, the highest grade of EXCELLENT.

"recipes" for different evaluation methods; useful information drawing on the expertise of a range of practising evaluators; a framework for planning and preparing your evaluation; guidelines for reporting and acting on the results. short exemplars of evaluation studies using some of the methods described.