as a whole in 2005 (prior to the merger of the university), which resulted in the audit team's questioning of the academic standards of its awards and its lack of confidence in the university's quality standards. However, after the audit was taken, the QAA was provided with information that indicates that appropriate action was taken by the university in response to the findings of this report. As a result, the audit was signed off in July 2007. The university was subsequently commended by the QAA for the high quality and standards of our higher education provision in 2015.
The university appears in Times Higher Education World University rankings, is ranked as one of the top 300 universities in the world under 50 years old in the Young University rankings, and was awarded Silver in the first ever Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in 2017.
The university hosts the National Centre for Cyberstalking Research, opened in 2012, which carried out the first British study of cyberstalking and other forms of harassment online. In 2012, it established a UNESCO chair in New Media Forms of the Book to analyse trends in the use of electronic media, mobile media, and Internet technologies through research and practice.
=== Teaching quality ===
In 2004 The Sunday Times awarded the university the title of 'Best New University' and in 2007 it was short-listed for the Times Higher Education Supplement's University of the Year 2007.
=== Awards ===
Awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2011.
Outstanding Finance Team winners in the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2011.
=== Educational partner institutions ===
The university works together with a number of partner institutions to offer a range of courses:
The university was a co-sponsor of UTC Central Bedfordshire, a university technical college which operated in Houghton Regis from 2012 to 2016.
== Student life ==
The University of Bedfordshire Students' Union is affiliated to the National Union of Students, which represents …
