QAA Tertiary Working - Micro-credential Special Interest Group - Launch

Description

QAA has been commissioned by HEFCW to support and facilitate a sector-owned virtual Tertiary Working Group on Micro-credentials led by Wales, which is also open to tertiary education providers in Scotland and Northern Ireland and employers. The group will
henceforth be called the HEFCW-funded Micro-credentials Special Interest Group (MIC.SIG).
Purpose
2. The principal aims of the MIC.SIG are to:

a. Support the tertiary sector in ensuring that micro-credential students and learners experience the highest possible quality of education in line with other traditional tertiary education provision.
b. Contribute to developing excellence, independence, and trust in the quality assurance and enhancement of micro-credential provision using the QAA's focus areas of standards, leadership and quality assurance and enhancement as pillars to guide the work of the MIC.SIG.
c. Promote the use of the QAA Characteristics Statement to tertiary education providers developing and maintaining micro-credential provision, as well assupporting any further developments to the Statement.

Period	Mar 2024
Event type	Seminar
Degree of Recognition	National