Is your degree quality endorsed?

Defining what we mean by a quality degree is a difficult enough undertaking. Having to demonstrate that a degree program is adhering to this definition is at least as challenging. Academics already "know" that they are doing a good job with the teaching and learning aspects of their courses and so any suggestion that the processes involved need monitoring and auditing commonly meet with a combination of disdain, calls of "time-wasting" and "meddling" and general derision. At the same time, there is increasing pressure on Universities around the world to not only be accountable for the quality of their products but to also demonstrate that processes that reflect the efforts to achieve quality be visible and in place.In this paper we describe a new web-based database system which has been developed to monitor and track aspects of the quality of our degree offerings. Particular attention has been paid to ensuring that the important facets which define or demonstrate quality are both highlighted and managed easily.