Assessing and recording student achievement
Chapter 3 Section 5

Recommendation(s): 20

Recommendation 20:

We recommend that institutions of higher education, over the medium term, develop a Progress File. The File should consist of two elements:

  • a transcript recording student achievement which should follow a common format devised by institutions collectively through their representative bodies;

  • a means by which students can monitor, build and reflect upon their personal development.

3.7 The Government welcomes the Committee’s recommendation and would encourage the higher education representative bodies to agree soon a common format for Progress Files and, with the assistance of the Quality Assurance Agency, develop a document which provides the information required by employers and dovetails with records of earlier learning achievement. DfEE is already supporting, through the Higher Education and Employment Development Prospectus, six projects costing £1m to develop innovative models for recording student achievement.

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