Analytic Quality Glossary
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Citation reference: Harvey, L., 2004–12, Analytic Quality Glossary, Quality Research International, http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/
This is a dynamic glossary and the author would welcome any e-mail suggestions for amendments or additions.
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Management audit in higher education, is
a process for checking that management procedures are in place to assure quality, integrity or standards of provision and outcomes.
explanatory
context
Management audit is often subsumed within
a general institutional audit.
analytical
review
INQAAHE (2001, p. 2) make a distinction
between auditing the procedures for quality assurance and auditing management
and policy-making processes:
A management audit
looks also at general management, general policy and policy making.
The UNESCO definition is
Management Audit: A
management audit reviews the general management, policy, and policy-making of a
given institution. (Vl‹sceanu et al., 2004, p. 24)
related terms
See also
sources
International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), 2001, Annex: Clarification and Glossary, to a questionnaire conducted in December, 2001. www.inqaahe.nl/public/docs/definities.doc. This is no longer the site of INQAAHE, document not accessible online 4 February 2011 but can be seen here.
Vlãsceanu, L., Grünberg, L., and Pârlea, D., 2004, Quality Assurance and Accreditation: A Glossary of Basic Terms and Definitions (Bucharest, UNESCO-CEPES) Papers on Higher Education, ISBN 92-9069-178-6. http://www.cepes.ro/publications/Default.htm accessed Jan 2005, neither this nor the later edition (2007) are available on-line at this address 18 January 2012.