Becoming a partner — our offer for education providers

We take a risk-based approach to managing quality with processes that are designed to be flexible and meet the needs of a wide range of organisations and qualifications.

We aim to help partners oversee and enhance standards of provision that ensures a high-quality academic experience.

Our models of collaboration

We can work with you a range of ways, including:

• Joint delivery partnerships draw on the resources and expertise of all parties for mutual benefit. Joint delivery courses are usually co-developed.
• Joint/double degrees are enterprises by two or more awarding bodies, who jointly design and deliver a degree programme which is jointly awarded.
• Dual degrees are an efficient way for students to study for two degrees. Each degree, awarded by a different University, has a common core so students study fewer credits and for less time than if they took each degree separately.
• Joint/double MPhil/PhD awards are a distinctive educational programme that none of the partners could offer, in that form, independently of others. Two higher education institutions collaborate in the delivery of a single jointly delivered research degree programme.
• Franchise partnerships allow a partner to deliver a course owned by Nottingham Trent University to its own students at its own premises.
• Distance delivery  is an arrangement whereby a course is wholly delivered and assessed by the University at another organisation's premises.
• Validation service arrangements allow a partner institution to deliver its own course(s) to its own students at its own premises. Courses are validated and awarded by Nottingham Trent University.