Urgency of Internal Academic Quality Audit Policy at Higher Education

Policy Analysis Education Quality Audit as Applied in Hong Kong

Academic audit emerged in the UK circa 1990 and is being applied in a growing number of venues across the world. This paper describes the variant, to be called “Education Quality Audit,” applied by Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee (UGC) in the mid 1990s and again 2002. The last section briefly compares this variant with other academic audit lineages and with the direct evaluation of educ...

Internal Audit, Board of Directors and Financial Reporting Quality

High-quality internal audit is expected to lead to high-quality financial reporting. High-quality financial reporting expresses itself in earning quality. Earning quality has been playing a key role in capital market for a long time. Finance users pay special attention to earning quality because they make their decision based on it. On the other hand, the market economy will experience awful, i...

From Internal Evaluation toward Quality Assurance in Distance Higher Education of Iran

Iranian higher education (HE) includes two headquarters named Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Ministry of Health and Medical education; it also contains about 1500 universities and HE institutions. There are presence and distance courses in HE. But because of the existing variety and flexible courses in distance education it attracts considerable n...

Quality in Higher Education: The Missing Academic Perspective

Academic goals and learning quality in higher education students.

In this paper, the relations between academic goals and various indicators that define the quality of the learning process are analyzed. The purpose was to determine to what extent high, moderate, or low levels of academic goals were positively or negatively related to effort regulation, the value assigned to academic tasks, meta-cognitive self-regulation, self-efficacy, beliefs about learning ...