Quality Assurance

The Quality, Standards and Accreditation Team (QSAT) provides specialist knowledge and understanding of the policy, processes and procedures for the assurance of a high quality education for students at the University.

Quality, Standards and Accreditation Team (QSAT)

Working with colleagues from across the University community, the team's roles include:

• Maintaining and updating the Quality Handbook, which contains the University's Quality, Monitoring and Enhancement Framework
• Ensuring that University practice aligns with best practice nationally and developments from the Quality Assurance Agency
• Supporting regulation and policy development and monitoring its implementation
• Providing advice on quality assurance and enhancement policies and procedures both internal to the University and those of external bodies such as the Quality Assurance Agency
• Maintaining and updating the University's Complaints and Appeals policies and procedures, providing advice and guidance on all aspects of these
• Supporting the work of the Academic Quality and Standards Committee and its Subcommittees and working groups.

To contact the QSA Team, please direct your enquiry to qsa@soton.ac.uk.

Faculty Curriculum and Quality Assurance Teams

Curriculum and Quality Assurance teams at Faculty level, working in partnership with QSAT, support Schools in the preparation for the validation and revalidation of taught programmes, changes to programmes and programme closures, external examiner appointments, student communications and representation, professional, statutory and regulatory body (PSRB) monitoring, and the implementation of academic regulations and processes. The team also supports the Faculty student complaints and academic appeals processes. 

Faculty	Generic Email Address
A1 - Faculty of Arts and Humanities	fahcqa@soton.ac.uk
A2 - Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences	felscqa@soton.ac.uk
A3 - Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences	fepscqa@soton.ac.uk
A4 - Faculty of Medicine	fmed-cqa@soton.ac.uk
A5 - Faculty of Social Sciences	fss-cqa@soton.ac.uk