![Corinne Smith](https://rca-media2.rca.ac.uk/images/Screenshot_2016-07-15_23.20.41_cop.2e16d0ba.fill-456x456.jpg)
Directing the Academic Development, Registry and Student Support teams at the Royal College of Art, Corinne is responsible for developing new academic initiatives and flexible models of learning and for the design and development of the regulatory framework to support them. She is also managing the establishment of institutional partnerships and collaborations in North America, South Korea, China and East Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. Working closely with Deans of School she is responsible for ensuring that all academic programmes meet UK benchmarks for quality and standards and other good practice guidelines.
Until July 2016 Corinne was Academic Registrar at the RCA and has held a number of other roles in registry, quality assurance and enhancement and governance. She has been a member of the Quality Assurance Agency’s quality review teams in the UK and overseas for over twenty years and has acted as a quality consultant to a number of small specialist colleges.