Dr. Stephen Jackson

Director of Reviews, QAA

Stephen is Director of Reviews at the Quality Assurance Agency with overall responsibility for the various review and audit activities that QAA carries out in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. These include the audit of Universities, the review of higher education in Further Education Colleges, applications from institutions for degree awarding powers and university title and the Access Courses Recognition Scheme – providing opportunities for adult students to gain entry to higher education. He is also involved with development of a number of new methods and initiatives. He is a Geographer by training and spent many years teaching at John Moores University in Liverpool. He also has interests in teaching and learning developments and trans-national education.

He has had experience of managing the review of UK higher education offered in other countries, both as a member of audit teams and as a senior representative of QAA. In 2004 he was a member of the panel for the audit of the University of Copenhagen and in 2006 he chaired the review of the Australian Universities Quality Agency. He has also worked with the British Council in supporting quality initiatives in the Gulf States.