Journal of Nursing Management
Click on the following link to download the article “Interprofessional education and working in mental health: in search of the evidence base” LINK

Board of Medical Education
An information resource from the Board of Medical Education about Interprofessional Education LINK

Interprofessional Education for Qualifying Social Work (2007)
Report of a research project by Professor Imogen Taylor and Dr Elaine Sharland for the UK Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) (148 pages). Download PDF document here: LINK

European Quality Assurance Standards
The Bergen Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Higher Education 19-20 May 2005 adopted Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area. The standards are given here for easy reference.
Download document HERE

UK Quality Assurance Newsletter
QA News is available electronically, in printed form and through Skills for Health’s website www.skillsforhealth.org.uk.
To download Issue 16 click HERE

Bulletin of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
To download issue 27 please click HERE

Student Membership audit and review teams – Learning from a Nordic experience
In 2007, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) began to explore options for including students on its institutional audit and review teams, and an initial consultation was conducted with sector agencies and representative bodies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to inform decision making. QAA also undertook to learn from the experiences of quality assurance agencies in other countries which have student members as part of review teams, and the following is an extract from a report evaluating student involvement in the Nordic countries.
To download document please click HERE

CHANGING THE CULTURE - from policing to effective professional practice - the TUNING EXPERIENCE
Presentation slides from Tempus Conference on Quality Enhancement in Higher Education, Cairo 7/8 May 2008
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Coimbra Group
Founded in 1985 and formally constituted by Charter in 1987, the Coimbra Group is an association of long-established European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard committed to creating special academic and cultural ties in order to promote, for the benefit of its members, internationalisation, academic collaboration, excellence in learning and research, and service to society.
One of its aims is to contribute to the debate within Europe on quality in higher education and promote the adoption of quality assurance mechanisms within its member institutions. LINK

Quality Assurance for the Higher Education Change Agenda (QAHECA)
European University Association and its partners ACQUIN, the Higher Education Academy and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth have launched a new project: the Quality Assurance for the Higher Education Change Agenda (QAHECA). This project is supported by the European Commission in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme. LINK

Quality Assurance IPE events
A selection of presentations and notes from Quality Assurance IPE events is under the Documents section. Direct LINK (you have to be logged in to see the documents)