Internal audit in higher education

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Internal audit in higher education

edited by Alison Holmes and Sally Brown

Kogan Page, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-213) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hardback ISBN 9780749431877

Description

This volume describes a range of experiences of internal audit in higher education institutions from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Germany. It presents approaches to best practice designed to enable readers to assess and develop their own audit procedures.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Background and Rationale
  • Chapter 1 Quality Audit Issues, Sally Brown, Alison Holmes
  • Chapter 2 Quality Audit in Higher Education, Simon Horsman
  • Chapter 3 Auditing Academic Programmes, Steve Michael
  • Chapter 4 Subject Review and the Enhancement of Quality, Margaret Moran
  • Chapter 5 Internal Audit - A Sceptic's View, Barbara Spender
  • Part 2 Diverse Approaches
  • Chapter 6 Internal Audit, Geoffrey Alderman
  • Chapter 7 Using Audit to Promote Organizational Learning, Maire Brennan, Elizabeth Noonan
  • Chapter 8 Introducing Internal Audit at Oxford Brookes University, Judith Carroll, Marion Temple
  • Chapter 9 The Themed Approach to Audit, Alison Holmes, Sally Brown
  • Chapter 10 Stories Auditors Tell, Maxine Alterio
  • Part 3 International Dimensions
  • Chapter 11 Programme Review for Accountability Purposes, T Dary Erwin
  • Chapter 12 'Ensuring Teaching Quality (ETQ) - Best Practice Pathways', Owen Hicks
  • Chapter 13 Internal Audit in New Zealand, David Woodhouse
  • Chapter 14 Evaluation at a German University of Applied Sciences, the TFH Berlin, Annette Jander
  • Part 4 Making the Most of Audit
  • Chapter 15 Peer Approaches to Audit, Sally Brown, Alison Holmes
  • Chapter 16 Audit your Own Teaching, Phil Race
  • Chapter 17 Using Subject Audit Towards Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Antony Mellor, Alison Holmes
  • Chapter 18 The Formative Use of Internal Quality Audit at Staffordshire University to Improve the Quality Assurance of Distributed Learning, Steve Outram
  • Chapter 19 Future Directions in Academic Quality Audit, Sally Brown, Alison Holmes
Volume

: paperback ISBN 9780749433000

Description

This volume describes a range of experiences of internal audit in higher education institutions from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Germany. It presents approaches to best practice designed to enable readers to assess and develop their own audit procedures.

Table of Contents

  • An introduction to internal audit in HE
  • extrapolation of principles from financial to educational audit
  • internal audit - is it worth the effort?
  • linking internal and external audit
  • institution-wide audit
  • the themed apporach to audit
  • the stories auditors tell
  • using subject audit for enhancement
  • institution specific case studies
  • US perspectives on internal audit
  • South Afrcian perspectives on internal audit
  • German perspectives on internal audit
  • New Zealand perspectives on internal audit
  • Australian perspectives on internal audit
  • peer approaches to audit
  • auditing your own practice as a means to self-improvement
  • a sceptical view of audit
  • using the results to imporve practice
  • maintaining the good work
  • the benefits of external scrutiny.

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  • NCID
    BA48029253
  • ISBN
    • 0749433000
    • 0749431873
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 213 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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