- Title
- Quality and regulation of Australian tertiary education: searching for a sustainable quality assurance framework
- Creator
- Shah, Mahsood; Stanford, Sue-Ann
- Relation
- ACPET Journal for Private Higher Education Vol. 2, Issue 1, p. 24-33
- Publisher
- Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACEPT)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The private tertiary education sector has experienced ongoing growth in Australia. Based on current trends, this sector is predicted to grow, contributing to the social and economic development of Australia and many other countries. While the private tertiary education sector is experiencing growth and tough competition from other providers, it is important and timely to revisit the quality assurance framework used in all tertiary education providers to assure internal quality and meeting external requirements. This paper is aimed to encourage debate on the need for private tertiary education institutions to develop internal capacity for quality assurance with the view to using a single framework to meet both internal and external requirements in a highly regulated tertiary education environment. The paper outlines the current dilemmas in some institutions that use a range of different quality frameworks, including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the Vocational Education and Training (VET) quality framework monitored by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), the Higher Education quality framework monitored by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) and the National ELT Accreditation Scheme (NEAS). We argue that there is a need for institutions to develop a single framework to meet internal and external needs that are economical, sustainable, and morally responsible in order to improve academic quality and to monitor standards.
- Subject
- private tertiary education; quality assurance; regulation; sustainable framework
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1342204
- Identifier
- uon:28913
- Identifier
- ISSN:2200-6141
- Language
- eng
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