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Education, Quality and Enhancement

Education, Quality and Enhancement is the place where expertise, specialist capabilities and resources combine and collaborate to give University of Liverpool colleagues a single front door to a suite of quality, innovation and enhancement support for learning and teaching.  

Education, Quality and Enhancement (EQE) underpins Strategy 2031 by assuring quality, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing educational provision across all learning environments and modalities—safeguarding the academic standards of the University’s awards

Located within the Directorate of Student Experience and Enhancement, EQE comprises:

What is our goal?

EQE aims to help create the conditions for all University of Liverpool students to have a truly excellent, inspiring, and transformative experience and achieve their full academic potential, and to enhance work across research and knowledge transfer. 

How do we do this?

To achieve our goals, EQE works collaboratively with colleagues across the University and with partners to:

  • Help shape the University’s education offer by bringing leadership, expertise, and insight—both individually and collectively
  • Oversee and strengthen the frameworks and standards that ensure the quality of all University of Liverpool awards
  • Ensure compliance with regulations, support faculties and curriculum development through training and resources, and draw on EQE expertise to foster innovation and creative teaching
  • Contribute to building an educational offer that is innovative, evidence-based, and well-designed, with a strong focus on continuous improvement
  • Actively involve students in quality assurance and enhancement, ensuring they have a voice in the design, delivery, and evaluation of our work
  • Support colleagues in developing UK and international collaborations, including articulation arrangements, joint programmes, franchised teaching, and PGR degrees.

How does EQE support Strategy 2031?

EQE contributes to the University of Liverpool’s Strategy 2031 in several key ways:

  • Curriculum support – delivering workshops, initiatives, and resources within a clear framework that helps departments and institutes make the most of opportunities to strengthen and optimise their curricula
  • Global alignment – ensuring international opportunities are consistent with our policies and goals, so that quality and coherence define all our partnerships
  • Research collaboration – working with researchers at every level to share best practice and reduce institutional quality risks

EQE strategy

As Senior Research Fellow in the Education Quality and Enhancement team, Dr Mark O'Brien leads on the development of education quality enhancement strategies within the Student Experience and Enhancement Division.

The educational research work undertaken by Mark has been central to the design and delivery of many University of Liverpool Student Experience projects, including influencing the University's 2020-25 Access and Participation Plan and the University's community/civic engagement strategy.

He is currently exploring the educational potential of University assets such as Ness Botanical Gardens, as part of the civic engagement strand of his work, Mark is currently leading on reinstituting the Annual John Hamilton Lifelong Learning Lecture.