AUQA audits of UniSA
About AUQA
The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) is the principal national quality assurance agency in higher education, with responsibility for quality audits of higher education institutions and accreditation authorities, reporting on performance and outcomes, assisting in quality enhancement, advising on quality assurance; and liaising internationally with quality agencies in other jurisdictions, for the benefit of Australian higher education.
AUQA quality audits of self-accrediting institutions are held approximately once every five years and are based on both a self-assessment and a site visit. AUQA makes use of panels of experts with substantial senior academic and administrative experience in higher education (in Australia and abroad) to undertake the audits.
2009 AUQA audit
AUQA's second audit of UniSA examined the University's current context and outcomes achieved since the 2004 audit, and investigated two theme areas in depth:
- Internationalisation
- Building workforce capacity to improve teaching and learning and enhance research performance
- AUQA Audit Report, October 2009
- AUQA Audit report, October 2009 Executive Summary (PDF 221kb)
- UniSA Performance Portfolio, May 2009 (PDF 3.8Mb - UniSA staff access only)
2004 AUQA audit
UniSA was first audited by AUQA in early 2004. The first audit had a whole of university scope considering and reviewing UniSA’s procedures to monitor and achieve all of its objectives.
- AUQA Audit Report, August 2004
- UniSA Performance Portfolio, December 2003 (PDF 1.5Mb)
- UniSA Progress Report, November 2005 (PDF 261kb)
Further AUQA resources
The above documents are PDFs - download Adobe Acrobat.