MChem makes its mark
In response to the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education, a group of academics and industrialists, led by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), has produced a set of outcomes - 'benchmarks' - that define the expectations of BSc(hons)
Two years ago the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education announced that as part of an ongoing five-year cycle it would be revisiting subject benchmarks, and at the same time consider any subjects not covered by the previous benchmarking exercise in 2000. A process of consultation with the academic and professional community began. In its response, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) stressed an urgent need to establish a benchmark for chemistry at the masters level as well as seeing this as an opportunity to revise the BSc(hons) benchmark in the overall context of both qualifications
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