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Assuring Quality in Australian Higher Education
URL: http://www.dest.gov.au/...quality_in_higher_education/default.htm
Category: Quality Assurance
This page provides information on how Australia assures the quality of its higher education system and how to find out if a university or a course offered by a particular higher education provider is accredited.
URL: http://www.auqa.edu.au/aboutauqa/faq/faqanswers/complaints.php
Category: Quality Assurance
The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) is an independent, not-for-profit national agency that will promote, audit, and report on quality assurance in Australian higher education. AUQA does not have a mandate for investigating individual complaints - information is provided on the appropriate procedure for these.
Australia's Quality Assurance Framework
URL: http://www.transnational.deewr.gov.au/quality_assurance.htm
Category: About Australian Education Quality Assurance
The Australian Education and Training system has a well established, comprehensive and robust quality assurance and accreditation framework to protect the quality of its qualifications in each of the major education sectors - Schools, Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education. Included on this page is the National Quality Strategy for Australian Transnational Education and Training.
Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
URL: http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/r39syn.htm
Category: Quality Assurance
The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research guides institutions and researchers in responsible research practices and promotes integrity in research for researchers. The Code shows how to manage breaches of the Code and allegations of research misconduct, how to manage research data and materials, how to publish and disseminate research findings, including proper attribution of authorship, how to conduct effective peer review and how to manage conflicts of interest. It also explains the responsibilities and rights of researchers if they witness research misconduct.
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
Category: Quality Assurance Other Peak Bodies
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) is the peak professional organisation for rural medical education and training in Australia. The College's core function is to determine and uphold the standards that define and govern competent unsupervised rural and remote medical practice.
Australian Higher Education Quality Assurance Framework
URL: http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/highered/occpaper/00g/default.htm
Category: Quality Assurance
Expansion of the higher education sector and changes in organisation, scale and mode of delivery have led to increased public concern about the maintenance of programme quality. This site contains the full report (in PDF format) of the Higher Education Quality Assurance Framework.
Australian Institute of Building
Category: Quality Assurance
The organisation is the leading body in the building industry, representing the views of its members and reflecting their ideals for education and ethics standards. The site informs about the services available to professionals in the industry and provides links to relevant resources and publications.
Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) - Quality Assurance Statements
URL: http://www.aqf.edu.au/quality.htm#auqa
Category: Quality Assurance Quality Assurance Quality Assurance
The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) was developed under instruction from the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) and is a key national policy instrument to protect the quality of Australian education and training. Documents relating to quality assurance are listed on this web site.
Australian Qualifications Framework Advisory Board Guidelines on Cross-Sector Qualification Linkages
URL: http://www.aqf.edu.au/cs.htm
Category: Quality Assurance
Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Advisory Board Guidelines on Cross-Sector Qualification Linkages provides structured arrangements to link qualifications across the Vocational Education and Training (VET) and higher education sectors. These Guidelines have been developed to provide advice at the national level on developing cross-sector linkages between qualifications, to assist organisations involved in developing structured cross-sector qualification linkages by identifying key processes, models and approaches, to promote the continuing development of diverse structured cross-sector qualification linkages by organisations, to facilitate the establishment of diverse educational and training pathways for individuals participating in tertiary education, and to give effect to lifelong learning.
Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA)
Category: Quality Assurance
The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) is an independent, not-for-profit national agency to promote, audit, and report on quality assurance in Australian higher education. It was established by the Ministerial Council on Education, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) and operates independently of governments and the higher education sector under the direction of a Board of Directors.
