"We are also auditing exam boards' quality assurance processes around marking to see what improvements can be made," she said.
It also vowed to "focus on enhancing product safety for consumers by making significant changes in its quality assurance processes".
The DWP has also engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide independent advice in relation to strengthening quality assurance processes across all its health and disability assessments.
"Although we believe the project's engineering, construction and quality assurance processes were robust, a comprehensive review including design, construction, operations and maintenance is essential to restoring public confidence in this historic project".
However, we did find significant need for improvement in private colleges' quality assurance arrangements – 370 of the recommendations made by reviewers related to this area, including 126 recommendations for formalising quality assurance processes.
The report also said there needed to be a balance between autonomy and accountability; for example, while quality assurance processes are important, they can also be "burdensome and restrictive".
A spokesperson for the Crest academy sponsor, E-Act, defended the school's response, confirming that the academy's internal quality assurance processes discovered in March that students undertaking the BTec medical science programme "required intensive teaching support in order to meet the requirements of the course".
It said: "CQC was aware of the service's own reviews following the deaths and, following a meeting with the provider in 2011, we wrote asking for information about their clinical governance and assurance processes with regard to how natural-cause deaths are identified and investigated".
More importantly than the bug itself, Apple should reconsider their quality assurance processes.
Faculties and institutes also have educational quality assurance processes to which departments are required to adhere.
However, this brings about challenges for the software quality assurance processes.
