A HIGHER education report on Wiltshire College has highlighted that the quality of its student learning opportunities requires improvement to meet UK expectations.

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) published a report on standards and quality at the college following its review in December.

The areas to work on include, ensuring that website information is up-to-date, the virtual learning environment content is reviewed and updated and that external examiners' reports are consistently made available to all higher education students.

A college spokesman said: "We welcome the report from QAA. Their judgement matches our own self assessment and demonstrates the rigour with which we approach the management of our excellent higher education provision. We are already working towards addressing all of the recommendations made in the report and are confident that they will be completed well ahead of the deadlines specified by QAA."

Despite this room for improvement, the report did find that the academic standards of the awards it offers on behalf of degree-awarding bodies and other awarding organisations, the quality of the information about its learning opportunities and the enhancement of its student learning opportunities met UK expectations.

QAA's Higher Education Reviews are carried out by experts from other universities and colleges. Every review team includes a student reviewer, because QAA believes that students should be partners in the quality assurance of their education.

The review team comprised Dr Wendy Gill (University of St Mark and St John), Patricia Millner (independent reviewer), Dr Karen Willis (University of Chester) and Scott Thomas (student reviewer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne).