AUQA audit 2008
What's New
SUT AUQA Performance
Portfolio
AUQA
Auditor Biographies
SUT AUQA
Performance Portfolio (February 2008)
SUT
AUQA Supporting Material Provided with Performance Portfolio
(February 2008)
Additional
Information Requested by AUQA (April 2008)
Response
to Questions Asked by AUQA (April 2008)
Invitation to 'Open Sessions'
Provide confidential feedback via an online
form,or alternatively, contact Wayne
Jencke – Swinburne’s Quality Manager.
Key events & dates
Event |
Date |
Notes |
1. Hardcopy and digital portfolio (with a compendium of
the supporting documents referenced in the portfolio) submitted
to AUQA and ‘mock audit’ panellists, and circulated
internally |
15 February |
A small errata sheet (to be circulated late in March) will
pick up any errors identified. Both the AUQA panel and mock
audit panel will request other documents, and these will be
supplied through SPQ. |
2. Preliminary visit to Swinburne by audit director and
panel chair. |
25 March |
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3. SPQ completes and disseminates Faculty-level data portfolios,
aligned to the AUQA portfolio, and ‘note-sheets’
for selected personnel. |
31 March |
These will go to Deans, Deputy Deans and other relevant
personnel in each of the six faculties. Sarawak data are included
for relevant faculties. |
4. AUQA panel finalises its interview schedule for the
offshore audits (April) and the Melbourne audit (May). |
31 March |
The same interviewees will participate in the mock audit.
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5. AUQA panel visits Hong Kong |
3 April |
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6. AUQA panel visits Vietnam. |
4 April |
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7. Mock audit in Melbourne. |
9 – 11 April |
Dress rehearsal with external panel of three chaired by
Gus Guthrie, former VC of UTS. The other panellists are Susan
Holland (formerly a PVC at Edith Cowan) and Colleen Liston
(formerly at Curtin) – all three are AUQA auditors.
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8. AUQA panel visits Singapore. |
21 April |
Note reversal of Sarawak and Singapore dates – advised
12 March. |
9. AUQA panel visits Sarawak. |
22 – 23 April |
See above. |
10. Melbourne audit. |
5 – 8 May |
June |
11. Report finalised. |
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12. Action plan prepared. |
August |
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Panel composition:
• Prof Cheong H.K. (Hee Kiat) – President, SIM
University, Singapore
• Prof Adrian Lee – former PVC Education, UNSW
• Prof Jenny Strong – School of Health &
Rehabilitation Sciences, UQ
• Mr Lyndon Rowe – CEO, Economic Regulation Authority,
WA
• Dr Antony Stella – Audit Director, AUQA
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.Overview
In May 2008 Swinburne will be audited by the Australian
Universities Quality Agency (AUQA).
All Australian Universities are audited by AUQA over a 5 year cycle.
Swinburne was first audited by AUQA in September 2002 and will be
one of the first Universities to be audited in the next round of
audits.
Rather than ‘whole of organisation’ audits as in cycle
1, cycle 2 AUQA audits will have a much narrower focus. They will
include:
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review of cycle 1 audit outcomes
The cycle 2 AUQA audit will check that the recommendations included
in Swinburne Cycle 1 audit
report have been implemented – and verify that areas
of commendation have been maintained, strengthened and/or shared
across the organisation – using a sampling process. The
panel will seek evidence that actions arising from the recommendations
and commendations in the progress
report have had an impact on organisational performance.
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self review
AUQA expects that Swinburne’s cycle 2 portfolio (as provided
to the external panel) will be a culmination of a thorough self-review
of Swinburne’s quality processes with a particular emphasis
on the review
themes - quality in the context of "Internationalisation
and Professional Learning" in Swinburne case. The AUQA auditors
manual states that AUQA auditors read the portfolio to, in part,
“… gauge the quality of the self-review and the
depth of the analysis”. A thorough self-review demonstrates
to AUQA that Swinburne has a robust quality system capable of
identifying issues that impact organisational performance.
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changes to quality systems
The cycle 2 audit will include a review of the changes made
to Swinburne’s quality system since the cycle 1 audit.
In addition, AUQA will require an overview of all internal and
external reviews and audits undertaken since the cycle 1 AUQA
audit, as well as details of benchmarking activities and outcomes.
AUQA has provided an overview
of the cycle 2 AUQA process. The AUQA
audit manual (version 4) describes the audit process in more
detail.
The AUQA auditor responsible from managing Swinburne’s Audit
is Dr
Antony Stella.
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