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The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) has worked with academic communities to develop subject benchmark statements for undergraduate honours degree programmes. Subject benchmark statements are designed to make explicit the characteristics of subject programmes and to articulate the attributes that a graduate should be able to demonstrate.

The benchmark statements are used by course teams when developing or revising programmes of study by informing curriculum development and the creation of programme learning outcomes. Thus they will also be referred to in the validation of programmes, quality assurance procedures and in audits by the QAA. The statements may also be of potential interest to professional bodies, graduate employers and prospective students.

The subject benchmark statement for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism was revised and published in 2008 and now also includes events management following the growth of interest in this subject area. It reflects the common unifying features within the subject grouping and identifies the elements that are specific to the component subject areas. The particular characteristics, knowledge, understanding and skills are given for each of the subject areas and then there is an overview of expectations regarding teaching, learning and assessment approaches adopted across the subjects.

In addition to the HLST undergraduate honours degree programme benchmark statement there is also a generic foundation degree qualification statement and a statement for masters degrees in business and management which may be of interest.

Subject Benchmark Statements are available on the QAA website.

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