Dear Business School Quality Practitioners

SABSA is delighted to invite you to an interactive Quality Workshop to be held virtually on Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 10h00 – 11h30.

Guest speaker – Dr Britta Zawada, Director of Institutional Audits from the Council on Higher Education (CHE) will present & focus on the current audit cycle.

Discussions will take place around:

• The audit framework and interpretation of the focus areas
• The audit manual and guidelines
• Audit preparations and
• The Audit Self Evaluation Report (SER)
• Evidence to provide in support of the SER

We look forward to information sharing between the Universities and the Private Higher Education Institutions in terms of possible good practices for internal quality assurance and its response to external quality agency requirements.

The audit focus areas will form our frame of reference for the workshop with follow up workshops on other topics to be considered at a later date. The focus areas are as below:

Focus Area 1 concentrates on the role that an institution’s governance, strategic planning (as contained in its vision, mission and strategic goals), management and academic leadership play in its quality management in order to enhance the likelihood of student success and to improve the quality of learning, teaching and research engagement, as well as accommodating the results of constructive, integrated community engagement.

Focus Area 2 concentrates on how the design and implementation of an integrated quality management system in the institution enhances the likelihood of student success and improves the quality of learning, teaching and research, as well as accommodating the results of constructive, integrated community engagement within the context of the institution’s mission.

Focus Area 3 concentrates on the coherence and integration of the various components comprising the institutional quality management system and how these work in concert to support the likelihood of student success and improve the quality of learning, teaching and research, as well as accommodating the results of constructive integrated community engagement in accordance with the institution’s mission.

Focus Area 4 concentrates on how effectively the institutional quality management system enhances the likelihood of student success, improves learning and teaching and supports the scholarship of learning and teaching.

Pre-register to book your place on this very important workshop by 16 May 2022.

Please forward to interested parties to build our network of Business School Quality Practitioners. For further information contact Anne Wilson – anne@SABSA.co.za

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