The successor of HEQC, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, was given responsibility for developing a new quality framework which contained within it frameworks for making explicit the nature and outcomes of a programme ( Programme Specifications ), the production of Subject Benchmark statements to act as reference points for the outcomes of a degree in a particular subject, and Progress Files-an official academic transcript provided by the institution and a collection of information owned and managed by the student.
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While all programs that take a set of programming specifications and translate them, i . e . create a means to execute those specifications, are technically " compilers ", the term generally means a program that produces a separate executable from the compiler ( that may require a run time library or subsystem to operate ), a compiler that merely executes the original specifications is usually referred to as an " interpreter ", although because of differing methods of analyzing what represents compilation and what represents interpretation, there is some overlap between the two terms.
