Internal Audit in Higher Education / Edition 1

by Alison Holmes, Sally Brown

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749433000
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/2000
Series:	Creating Success
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alison Holmes, Sally Brown

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.

Editorial Reviews

The primary focus of this book is on quality enhancement in higher education through program audit, self-review and teaching and learning assessment. Though pieces on traditional financial audit are included, this is not, as its title might suggest to some, simply a collection of essays describing financial audit techniques and experiences. The editors bring together in one volume a view of best practices in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. [They] commissioned contributions from a diverse group of experts carefully chosen to provide the reader with a broad understanding of quality assessment practices worldwide. This is a well-written book on a topic of current relevance worldwide. It ought to be required reading for all those embarking on quality assessment initiatives as well as those seeking to understand better why their current processes might not be achieving the level of success anticipated.

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