How the score is made

• Regulatory alignment (20%): The Office for Students conditions of registration, Section B most closely (B1 to B5), plus student outcomes, protection, the OIA Good Practice Framework on complaints and appeals, and the FHEQ level descriptors.
• Industry relevance (25%): The UK priority skills agenda, Skills England, the NFER Skills Imperative 2035 and current employer demand for technical and professional competence.
• Career pathways (35%): Graduate destinations and job trajectories evidenced by the WEF Future of Jobs report, CEDEFOP and BLS labour analysis.
• IEMA Standards (20%): IEMA principles set about ten years ahead of today's benchmarks. It is the most demanding bar, so it is normally the lowest of the four scores.

The overall score is the weighted sum of the four pillar scores, recomputed by the engine, not taken from the model.

The text is analysed by an AI model (named on the Privacy page). Each finding must point to evidence in the document or to a named public framework. Quotes shown as “In your document” are checked word for word against the text you supplied; a quote that cannot be found is not shown.

Where the model is less sure of the evidence, the report shows an indicative range around the score.

• It is an AI analysis of one document, not a formal audit, an inspection or an accreditation.
• It sees only what the document says. Teaching quality, facilities and outcomes data are outside its view.
• The same document can score a few points differently on another run; read the range, not the single number.
• Frameworks change. The engine reflects the frameworks named above as they stood when this version was built.

Write to standards@iema.org.uk. See also Privacy & data.