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Description
A range of activities to secure HE standards & quality: reviews & audits of standards & quality in HE providers; published reports & intelligence arising from those reviews & audits; maintenance of the UK Quality Code, subject benchmarks and qualifications frameworks; advice on degree awarding powers & university title, Access to HE & support for HEIs in relation to international developments.
Also known as
- Qaa
- Qaa Scotland
- The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
CCEW Charity number
Company number
Registered
Postcode
GL1 1UB
Website
Domain
qaa.ac.uk
Latest income
£10,110,143 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
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Areas of operation in the UK
Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 3 active records and 0 inactive records, from 3 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 1062746 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
GB-CHC-1062746Themes and activities
Back to contentsThis organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Colleges and universities
B21
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
Visit charityclassification.org.uk for more information on the project. If you have any feedback on the classification system or how it has been applied there is a form on the project homepage.
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Education
ED -
Education
ED» Higher educationED103
Theme (CCEW)
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Education/training
102
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
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Children/young People
201 -
The General Public/mankind
207
Activities (CCEW)
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Provides Services
306 -
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
307
Scale of operation
- National
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
GB-CHC-1062746Charity financial history
Back to contents| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 1997-06-09 |
Registered as a charity |
|
| 2004-07-31 | 10,222,362 | 10,218,591 |
| 2005-07-31 | 11,538,239 | 11,494,907 |
| 2006-07-31 | 11,464,416 | 11,090,773 |
| 2007-07-31 | 9,676,858 | 9,872,644 |
| 2008-07-31 | 10,016,040 | 9,975,826 |
| 2009-07-31 | 11,447,585 | 11,269,992 |
| 2010-07-31 | 12,246,807 | 11,892,558 |
| 2011-07-31 | 12,266,448 | 12,260,826 |
| 2012-07-31 | 14,028,737 | 13,305,736 |
| 2013-07-31 | 13,614,426 | 13,292,651 |
| 2014-07-31 | 15,279,697 | 14,391,103 |
| 2015-07-31 | 14,851,971 | 14,388,728 |
| 2016-07-31 | 15,443,840 | 16,126,139 |
| 2017-07-31 | 12,393,637 | 11,566,248 |
| 2018-07-31 | 12,346,515 | 12,216,215 |
| 2019-07-31 | 10,746,085 | 13,540,111 |
| 2020-07-31 | 9,227,576 | 8,149,061 |
| 2021-07-31 | 8,299,644 | 8,282,505 |
| 2022-07-31 | 9,788,285 | 11,706,199 |
| 2023-07-31 | 10,110,143 | 9,470,208 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees | 121 | 117 |
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | 12 | 10 |
| Volunteers | - | - |
| Trustees | 18 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
GB-CHC-1062746Statement of Financial Activities
Back to contentsStatement of financial activities for year ended .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | ||
| Donations and other voluntary income | - | - |
| Legacies | - | - |
| Endowments | - | - |
| Donations and legacies | - | - |
| Income from charitable activities | 9.9 | 9.6 |
| Income from other trading activities | - | 0.0 |
| Income from investments | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Other income | - | - |
| Total | 10.1 | 9.8 |
| Expenditure | ||
| Investment management | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Other spending on raising funds | 0.0 | - |
| Spending on raising funds | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Grants to institutions | - | 0.1 |
| Other charitable activities | 9.5 | 11.6 |
| Charitable activities | 9.5 | 11.7 |
| Other spending | - | 0.0 |
| Total | 9.5 | 11.7 |
| Net income / (expenditure) | 0.6 | (1.9) |
Balance sheet at .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Fixed assets | ||
| Tangible and intangible assets | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Investment assets | 6.0 | 5.9 |
| 6.2 | 6.2 | |
| Current assets | ||
| Current investment assets | - | - |
| Cash | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| Other current assets | 2.1 | 3.4 |
| 5.8 | 7.7 | |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due within one year | (5.8) | (7.9) |
| Net current assets | (0.0) | (0.2) |
| Total assets less current liabilities | 6.2 | 6.0 |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due after one year | (0.4) | (0.1) |
| Net assets (excluding pension scheme) | 5.8 | 5.9 |
| Defined benefit pension scheme | (2.7) | (3.3) |
| Net assets (including pension scheme) | 3.1 | 2.5 |
| Funds | ||
| Endowment funds | - | - |
| Restricted funds | - | - |
| Unrestricted funds | 3.1 | 2.5 |
| 3.1 | 2.5 | |
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
GB-CHC-1062746Income from government
Back to contents| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Contracts with government | ||
| Income from government contracts | 1,575,626 | 1,348,286 |
| Government contracts as % of total income | 15.6% | 13.8% |
| Number of government contracts | 2 | 3 |
| Government grants | ||
| None recorded | ||
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