Those joining the service earn less than 14,000 a year and are subject to new 'examiner quality assessment' targets that monitor how many applications are being processed every day.

Those standards are not always high, however; and she agrees there must be quality assessment.

Institutions are autonomous in their decision to offer non-accredited programmes, subject to internal quality assessment.

Consistency in the production of good results requires an overall program that includes quality assurance, quality control, and quality assessment.

Microscopes may also prove useful for the water quality assessment for people that keep a home aquarium.