We need to remind ourselves that QAA (unlike Ofsted) does not directly assess quality: it assesses how autonomous universities assess the quality of what they themselves do.
(1) Borrell has previously lived in the autonomous region of northern Spain.
The country is split into two autonomous entities, each with their own constitution, and a third region, the Brcko District, is governed by local administration.
Once computers are in full control of our cars, do we even need traffic lights at intersections? That's the idea behind AIM – autonomous intersection management – at the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.
This presents us with the intriguing prospect that more of the circumstances of everyday urban life might be managed this way, on a participatory basis, by autonomous neighbourhood groups networked with one another in something amounting to a city-wide federation.
The beguiling narrative that the SNP offered focused on the great things an independent – or fiscally autonomous – Scotland might be able to achieve.
The rational, autonomous, self-aware agent acting in his own self-interest according to static preferences has faded as we realise that behaviour is largely irrational, unconscious and driven by external contexts.
Pato subsequently banned all Australian travel into the autonomous region of Bougainville, which will hold a referendum on independence before 2020.
The confused and overlapping patchwork of autonomous NHS structures that Mr Lansley left behind could easily render Mr Cameron's hopes of seven-day care a daydream.
All lectures at LSE will now be open to the public; there will be a review of their so-called flexible-hours contracts; and there will be provision of a permanent, autonomous space for "dissent" and political discussion.
They are also right to point out that competition is opposed to monopoly and not cooperation, which is necessary for a successful economy: an isolated individual can never become an autonomous person.
