.... Initially, it was decided to put all senior staff within the institute through the internal audit in order to facilitate team work. It was agreed that auditors should satisfy the following criteria: The first six audits conducted in session 2000/01 took place on: © MCB UP Limited 2002...

... in a survey of 25 higher education providers and offers a series of simple conceptual frameworks that help explain the nature of internal audit processes. A companion article explores the potential of internal academic quality audit for contributing to a national quality assurance framework. Academic...

...David Dow In the UK, higher education organizations (HEOs) are obliged to pay both for external audit (which must be provided by a professional auditing firm) and internal audit (which may be provided either by directly employed staff or on a contracted basis). Suggests how an HEO might achieve...

... Higher education Internal audit Quality The rhetoric of quality is all about empowerment: about getting employees to own their jobs and to join together in small groups to improve every aspect of their work “constantly and forever” as Deming puts it (Deming, 1982). The image is one of a stimulated...

... meeting has the potential to be fraught. There are parallels in all this with the internal audit process, and there is the advantage that detailed studies have been conducted of the behavioural aspects of this activity. Draws out the repercussions of this on educational quality assurance. © MCB UP...

..., evaluates the success of RGU′s Internal Quality Audit Team, and argues that other higher education establishments might find it useful to establish similar “meta‐quality” systems. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Academic staff Education Internal audit Quality control Universities VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1...