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In the UK the Government is concerned that standards should exist to ensure that all degrees awarded in institutions of higher education meet certain minimal criteria and therefore are of at least of a certain standard. To this end they have created a set of committees composed of subject experts whose task is to define the required standards for their discipline. The purpose of this paper is to outline the approach taken to address these benchmarking standards for Computing.
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The Report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, chaired by Lord Dearing, published by HMSO, London, 1997.
Computing, Benchmark Standard published by the UK Quality Assurance Agency, Gloucester, England, 2000
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McGettrick, A. (2003). Benchmark Standards for Computing in the UK. In: Cassel, L., Reis, R.A. (eds) Informatics Curricula and Teaching Methods. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 117. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35619-8_1
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