Class 3: What our Priorities Are and How we Are Doing
Strategies and plans, performance indicators, audits, inspections and reviews
Corporate and business plans, Teaching and learning strategy and Academic quality and standards
Corporate relations
Information relating to links with employers and sponsors,
Government and regulatory reports
Equality duties
| Mission,Visions and Values | Our Mission, Vision and Values - What is most important to Us |
| Strategy | Aston 2030 Our strategic framework is detailed in our Aston 2030 Strategy |
| Academic Quality and Standards |
The Quality Handbook includes the policies and processes which constitute the University’s quality assurance and enhancement framework. The Education Strategy sets out how the University aims to achieve its strategic goal of providing students with a distinctive, high quality experience. The Access and Participation Plan defines the University's commitment to widening participation and lists our progress objectives in supporting key underrepresented groups in higher education. |
| Programme approval and review process | The evaluation of modules and teaching programmes is a key part of the University's quality assurance processes, and part of a cycle of continuous improvement by the staff and students of a programme |
| Government and Regulatory Reports |
The Office for Students (OfS) is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Education, acting as the independent regulator and competition authority for the higher education sector in England. Reports made are available from the Office for Students website. These include: 2024-25 OfS Regulated Fees Summary (PDF) Transparency Data – Information published in relation to Condition F1 of the Office for Students regulatory framework. This page shows the number of students who attained a particular degree or other academic award, or a particular level of such an award, on completion of their course. It also shows these numbers by reference to gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic background. Reports are made to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). This information is published on the HESA website. The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) is an independent body. It works closely with other organisations that have an interest in the reputation of UK higher education, including the Higher Education Academy, Universities UK and GuildHE. It checks how UK universities and colleges maintain the standard of their higher education provision. It reports on how they meet their responsibilities, identifies good practice and makes recommendations for improvement. The QAA institutional reports for the University of Birmingham can be found on their website. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the peer review system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education. We publish full REF results. |
| Compliance with duties under the Equality Act 2010 | We publish the University's approach to inclusion, equality priorities, equality information, schemes, reports, and policies on the Inclusive Aston area of our website including equality reports and accreditations. We publish a Statutory Gender Pay Gap Report as required by the Equality Act 2010. |