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Changes in Higher Education 15-16 May 2007

Changes in Higher Education 15-16 May 2007. The revised institutional audit process Steve Jackson qaa.ac.uk. Outline. Key points of new process audit programme reports progress to date early indications mid cycle follow ups collaborative provision audit outcomes from audit.

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Changes in Higher Education 15-16 May 2007

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  1. Changes in Higher Education15-16 May 2007 The revised institutional audit process Steve Jackson qaa.ac.uk

  2. Outline Key points of new process audit programme reports progress to date early indications mid cycle follow ups collaborative provision audit outcomes from audit

  3. Key features • Continuity of objectives – assurance of standards and quality • Efficiency of process – reducing the burden on HEIs • Focuses: • management of quality and standards • management of learning opportunities • approach to quality enhancement • Collaborative arrangements • Postgraduate standards • Published information • Judgements and comments

  4. Audit programme 2006-2011 • Transitional arrangements 2002-06 • Three into six wont go! • First stage of the audit programme • Small and specialist institutions • Institutions with limited confidence judgements • Early positioned institutions • Timing of audits

  5. Reports • Purpose of reports • Addressing multiple audiences • Use of language • How reports are used by institutions • Report Summary • Main report • (technical) annex • Institutional statements

  6. Progress to date • Seven audits 2006-07 • Effectiveness of audit process • Information requirements • Involvement of students • Report writing • Plans for 2007-08

  7. Early indications • Outcomes – judgements and comments • The briefing paper • The focus on enhancement • Collaborative provision • Published information and TQI • Use of reports

  8. Mid-cycle follow ups • ‘Short health check on the management of standards and quality’ • Not a peer review process conducted by an audit team • No published reports • Areas covered; • Progress since the last audit • Significant changes in the management of quality • Issues arising from internal review • Programme for mid-cycle follow ups

  9. Collaborative provision audit • What we say in the handbook • Experience of recent programme of CPAs • Role of the QA Framework Review Group • Impact of other developments: • IQER • Overseas audit • QAA’s proposals to QAFRG • CPA within audit • Large and complex provision • The hybrid model

  10. Outcomes from audit • Success of outcomes series • No of web hits • Most requested reports • Source of requests • Use of papers: • Institutional and personal research • A positive resource for enhancement purposes • Sharing information with HEA • Plans for the future • New series of outcomes papers • Outcomes from other review methods

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