Goldsmiths - University of London

Collaborative Provision and Partnerships

The College has a limited number of collaborative partnerships in the UK and overseas and is seeking to develop its portfolio of collaborative activities with high quality partners.

The College will undertake collaboration, which is in line with its mission and compatible with its particular strengths in research and research-led teaching to the benefit of its students, itself and its partners.

Section 2 of the Quality Assurance Agency’s Code of Practice on Collaborative Provision and Flexible and Distributed Learning (including e learning) 2004 defines collaborative provision as follows:

Collaborative provision denotes educational provision leading to an award, or to specific credit toward an award, of an awarding institution delivered and/or supported and/or assessed through an arrangement with a partner organisation.

The term collaborative provision thus covers a range of relationships between institutions and includes both undergraduate and postgraduate programme arrangements and also postgraduate research programmes.  Section 2 defines flexible and distributed learning (FDL) as follows:

Flexible and distributed learning (FDL) denotes educational provision leading to an award, or to specific credit toward an award, of an awarding institution delivered and/or supported and/or assessed through means which generally do not require the student to attend particular classes or events at particular times and particular locations.

Any Department wishing to explore a potential collaborative provision or flexible or distributed learning arrangement should, in the first instance, read the College’s Collaborative Provision Framework and then discuss their ideas with the Pro-Warden (Academic Development) and the Head of Quality and Standards.

The Collaborative Provision Framework provides:

• Information about the College’s approval and management framework for collaborative provision
• Step by step advice for staff who wish to develop collaborative provision arrangements
• Guidance to staff about the College’s requirements for the ongoing management of collaborative provision arrangements