Cycle 2 - 2009
CSU will undergo its second audit by the Australian University Quality Agency (AUQA) in October 2009. The Audit will be conducted in accordance with the Audit Manual.
This Audit will be within AUQA’s second cycle and as such will investigate institutional standards and performance outcomes, with explicit reference to external reference points. The audit will be guided by a consideration of academic risk and its management, and will seek to examine closely the relationship between process and outcomes.
Although the Audit will be similar to the Cycle 1 Audit CSU experienced in 2004, there will be some key differences, these being:
- An assessment of the progress made in addressing a sample of Recommendations and Affirmations from Cycle 1;
- Review of significant changes to quality assurance and enhancement processes since Cycle 1;
- Explicit assessment of the extent that institutional outcomes and standards are being achieved;
- Explicit consideration of the extent to which requirements of external reference points are being met; and
- Greater depth in the analysis of two themes, being Internationalisation and Professional Education and Practice Based Learning.
In relation to the points above AUQA considers outcomes in relation to stated objectives. It then reviews trend data to see whether the organisation is getting closer to achieving these objectives. Where a policy or procedure has recently been introduced, AUQA may investigate the self monitoring that led to the change and how the new procedures are to be evaluated. Above all AUQA will test the institution’s commitment to success in continuous improvement.