The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (or QAA) is dedicated to checking that students in the UK are getting the higher education experience they are entitled to expect. The QAA body works to monitor and advise on both quality and standards in UK higher education institutes. There is a Higher Education Review occurring this year at the University in the first week of February, whereby students will be invited by SUSU to talk to the QAA reviewers. The QAA are interested in talking to a variety of students including distance learners, students who study on a variety of campuses … Read the rest

A little later than some of the others, we finally bring to you the seventh sabbatical survey! Your new Vice President of Education Sophia D’angelico has been extremely busy with preparations for the beginning of the academic year, but she found time to complete our series of sabbatical interrogations. Carry on reading if you wish to find out more about Sophia’s hidden talents and plans for the next 12 months.

1.       When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I was determined to be a CSI agent or a spy!!!

2.       If you could