What does 'quality' in higher education mean? Perceptions of staff, students and employers. 'Quality' in education is difficult to define. What is viewed as high quality by staff, students and employers must be identified so that universities can articulate their offer. Equally, helping students develop the graduate skills and attributes that employers value is essential. This project explored quality in higher education from the perspectives of undergraduate students, academic staff and employers. 340 students, 32 staff and 17 employers completed their respective questionnaires. Qualitative data was collected from students in focus groups. Results showed that employers most highly valued graduate personal qualities, while quality of teaching and learning, feedback and staff: student relationships were highly rated by staff and students. Students, while positive about the methods of teaching and learning used, expressed uncertainty about whether they were receiving a high quality education. Higher education institutions and academic staff must articulate the value of the academic offer more clearly to their students.

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This paper presents a new version of the camera-spacemanipulation method (CSM). The set of nonlinear view parameters of the classic CSM is replaced with a linear model. Simulations and experiments show a similar precision error for the two methods. However, the new approach is simpler to implement and is faster.Index Terms-Camera matrix, camera-space manipulation (CSM), pinhole camera model, robot control, vision-based control.

:Tb thin films have been successfully produced from dichloride ethoxide of zirconium, OEt EtOH and by the sol - gel process. These films show luminescent properties when they are excited with UV light (270 nm). The luminescence spectra present typical transitions from the level belonging to the trivalent terbium ion. The processes used for film deposition were dipping and spinning on glass microscope slides. The films obtained exhibit an average visible transmission between 85 and 95%. The surface profiles show that these films are fairly smooth. The results of x-ray diffraction show that the zirconia coatings present a metastable tetragonal phase. It is observed that such films have excellent properties and are therefore of high technological interest.

The room temperature photoluminescence emission characteristics of cerium chloride doped aluminum oxide films deposited by spray pyrolysis are reported. The spectra of the photoluminescence excited with 300 nm light on these samples show a broad emission formed by two overlapping peaks at 365 and 395 nm. The relative emission intensity of these peaks to each other and as a whole is strongly dependent on the doping concentration and the deposition temperature. Energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy analysis of the samples as well as the correlations observed with the light emission intensity suggest that the luminescence observed is associated with the molecular incorporation of the CeC13 into the aluminum oxide and not to the presence of atomic Ce in the film.