This volume describes a range of experiences of internal audit in higher education institutions from around the world. It presents approaches to best practice designed to enable readers to assess and develop their own audit procedures.

Contributors

vii

Part 1: Background and rationale

Quality audit issues

3

(6)

Sally Brown

Alison Holmes

Quality audit in higher education: lessons from financial audit

9

(12)

Simon Horsman

Auditing academic programmes: towards quality higher education in the USA

21

(18)

Steve Michael

Subject review and the enhancement of quality

39

(8)

Margaret Moran

Internal audit - a sceptic's view

47

(10)

Barbara Spender

Part 2: Diverse approaches

Internal audit: Is it worth the effort?

57

(8)

Geoffrey Alderman

Using audit to promote organizational learning

65

(12)

Maire Brennan

Elizabeth Noonan

Introducing internal audit at oxford Brookes University

77

(8)

Judith Carroll

Marion Temple

The themed approach to audit

85

(8)

Alison Holmes

Sally Brown

Stories auditors tell

93

(14)

Maxine Alterio

Part 3: International dimensions

Programme review for accountability purposes

107

(12)

T. Dary Erwin

Ensuring Teaching Quality (ETQ) - Best practice Pathways': a focus on departmental practices for good teaching and learning

119

(12)

Owen Hicks

Internal audit in New Zealand

131

(12)

David Woodhouse

Evaluation at a German university of applied sciences, the TFH berlin

143

(14)

Annette Jander

Part 4: Making the most of audit

Peer approaches to audit

157

(6)

Sally brown

Alison Holmes

Audit your own teaching

163

(20)

Phil Race

Using subject audit towards enhancement of teaching and learning: a case study in geography and environmental management

183

(8)

Antony Mellor

Alison Holmes

The formative use of internal quality audit at Staffordshire University to improve the quality assurance of distributed learning

191

(10)

Steve Outram

Future directions in academic quality audit

201

(4)

Sally Brown

Alison Holmes

References

205

(6)

Index

211

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