External Quality Audits

• TEQSA
• AUQA
• AUQA Cycle 2 Audit 2011
• AUQA Cycle 1 Audit 2005

TEQSA 

In July 2011, the Australian Government established a new national regulatory and quality agency for higher education, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). TEQSA is an independent body with powers to regulate university and non-university higher education providers, monitor quality and set standards.

The TEQSA legislation also includes the introduction of:

• a new National Register of Higher Education Providers
• a new Higher Education Standards Framework
• the My University website.
  

The Higher Education Standards Framework will comprise:

• Provider Standards - based on the current National Protocols for Higher Education
• Qualification Standards - the revised Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF)
• Teaching and Learning Standards (see below)
• Research Standards
• Information Standards
  
  

AUQA 

The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) operated from 2000-2011 as an independent, not-for-profit, national agency established to promote, audit, and report on quality assurance in Australian higher education.

The University's audits by AUQA took place in May 2005 and March 2011.  The first audit was a whole-of-institution audit and the findings of the Audit Report can be downloaded here.

The 2011 audit focused on two key thematic areas: (1) enabling undergraduate learning and (2) international activities; as well as a review of progress on areas for improvement identified in the previous audit. The report can be downloaded here.

Reports and links

• UOW’s cycle 2 AUQA Audit Report was published in July 2011
• UOW’s cycle 1 AUQA Audit Report was published in March 2006
• The reports of all university audits are available from the AUQA website
• Good practice examples from university audits, including the University of Wollongong, are available on the AUQA Good Practice database