The combination of a multi-year economic slowdown and Internet-based technologies has encouraged both traditional and new providers of higher education to offer new courses and programs in response to contemporary needs. In particular, the global crisis of unemployment among young people has spawned new types of qualifications (e.g., open badges), new types of informal short courses (e.g., Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs) and a stronger focus on competencies. It is important to create quality assurance frameworks to give credibility to these developments in order that learners do not feel lost in a "free-for-all" of new higher education provision. The purpose of this policy brief is to propose how a suitable "quality platform" might be created.