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Maintaining Quality within Institutions (MGMT90247)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Term 4
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
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Maintaining Quality within Institutions focuses on how people undertake, define, measure, monitor and improve quality and quality assurance processes and procedures within tertiary education. Tertiary education institutions are under mounting pressure to demonstrate their quality as a measure of social and financial accountability to students, the public and the government.
This subject will enable students to understand the contexts and approaches of internal quality monitoring, addressing and exploring a range of theoretical, cultural, methodological and practical considerations. It contains four modules of study, preceded by a short informatory webinar which also introduces students to the national and international contexts of quality assurance.
• Module 1: Quality Assurance and the Quality Cycle
This module introduces the notion of quality assurance within the tertiary education sector, and explores how institutions can plan quality strategies and operations. It introduces the concepts of the planning pyramid and the quality cycle and how these can be adapted to their institutional context.
• Module 2: Positive Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) Culture
This module focuses on the nature of a quality culture within institutions and organisational units and explores ways and means by which a quality culture can be developed, maintained and enhanced. Leadership, staff capability and comprehensive behavioural characteristics and quality culture identifiers are introduced and explored.
• Module 3: IQA Governance and Management
This module considers differences, similarities and overlap of External and Internal Quality Assurance systems, including exemplar bodies. Common institutional approaches to audit are explored; governance and management are defined and illustrated with reference to function, values, principles and policies and procedures.
• Module 4: IQA in Action
This module draws together the themes and content of the preceding modules in the context of IQA in action, including inputs, outputs and appropriate responses to the requirements of demonstrating compliance. In so doing, teaching and learning, research and research training, professional / administrative units and partnerships are addressed separately. Benchmarking and specific tools for IQA conclude the module.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- discuss theoretical concepts of quality and quality assurance;
- discuss the social, political, economic and technological changes that are driving the quality agenda in tertiary education;
- assess, appraise and apply quality assurance concepts and strategies to their everyday work; and
- discuss some of the issues and challenges relating to quality assurance.
Generic skills
On successful completion of this subject participants will appreciate the challenges of meeting internal and external QA priorities, and be able to apply this knowledge to specific situations.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Written response to quality within institutions debates
| Week 3 | 30% |
Written assignment
| End of the teaching period | 70% |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- Term 4 - Online
Coordinator Arnaldo Barone Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours. Includes 6 hours of webinars and 18 hours of online discussions (all taught and/or moderated by academic staff) over the duration of the subject. Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 10 October 2022 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students should familiarise themselves with the online platform and may like to take the opportunity to read through preliminary information about the subject and the services and support that is available to them. Students are encouraged to use this time to also introduce themselves to peers and teaching staff and to learn about those they will be studying with throughout the term. Teaching period 17 October 2022 to 11 December 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 October 2022 Census date 4 November 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 25 November 2022 Assessment period ends 18 December 2022 Term 4 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Selected readings and notes to be provided prior to commencement
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Tertiary Education (Management) Course Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education (Quality Assurance) Course Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education (Management) - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 10 February 2024