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A big difference between universities in England and in North America is the concept of ‘quality assurance’. In North America it is all internal. Each University prides itself on the quality of their graduates. In England there is an elaborate process of quality assurance through external evaluators. What’s weird is that the students don’t benefit from the external evaluator’s assessment of their work. We don’t get any feedback. Instead what I now understand is that it is the programme that is being evaluated.

At Emily Carr University we bring in external evaluators to give students feedback on their graduate research and to comment on their thesis.