Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Ensuring greater comparability of degree standards: The External Examining project

How do we ensure that there is greater comparability of the standards of undergraduate degrees awarded across an increasingly diverse HE sector? Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy) has devised and piloted with HE providers a generic professional development programme for external examiners. It is also engaged with subject associations and professional bodies to pilot activities to calibrate standards at a subject level. This session provides an update on progress on the project managed by the Office for Students on behalf of the four nations.