This publication aims to contribute to the international dialogue on quality assurance of transnational higher education, with an emphasis on quality audit. Although it reflects Australian experience and lessons learned, it includes consideration of the wider comparative context in which Australian practices and approaches should be viewed. Findings from quality audits and the advice from experienced auditors will be of particular interest to those in higher education institutions who...

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This paper examines the current academic and policy literatures surrounding quality assurance in tertiary education. It provides a typology of existing national quality assurance mechanisms, in addition to presenting the advantages and disadvantages of different quality assurance systems. Finally, it provides an account of the current empirical evidence on the effects of quality assurance mechanisms.

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The purpose of the QA/QC Program is to ensure the quality of the information and results generated by US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) fish health centers (FHC) for fish health inspection and diagnostic assays. The personnel of each laboratory are to be familiar with the QA/QC Program described in this document, and implement its policies and procedures at all times.

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Due to the increasingly vocal interventions of civil society actors and of multinational business actors, the scope of diplomacy has broadened from traditional state-to-state actors to state and the inclusion of non-state actors (Saner & Yiu, 2002) thereby resulting in a multitude of new challenges for Ministries of Foreign Affairs and traditional diplomats. Learning new skills and acquiring new knowledge is no longer a “nice to have”, it has become an absolute necessity for today’s...

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This report was prepared with participation of the QA Coordinators, who provided information for their respective programs and the laboratory based on requirements in the Quality Management Plan. A list of the Program and Laboratory QA Coordinators is given in Appendix A, and the information they provided is included in Appendix B.

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The following report presents the results of the panel’s work on its double task. It is our hope that the conclusions and recommendations of the panel will serve not only as a platform for the future Portuguese quality assurance system, but also as an inspiration and benchmark for other national quality assurance systems.

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The systems that are put in place to ensure the reliability of the assessments are robust. The paper examines these processes and considers whether they are sufficient to guarantee the quality of the assessments made.

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As the book is aimed at the "general reader, the essential technical matter is couched in general term. For the very same reason, an appropriate glossary expaining technical terms is also included.

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The purpose of the UFP-QAPP is to serve as a single national consensus document for consistent and systematic implementation of project specific guidelines per Section 6 (Part B) of ANSI/ASQ E4 (Quality Systems for Environmental Data and Technology Programs -- Requirements with guidance for use). The purpose of this QA/QC Compendium is to establish minimum specifications for data quality activities for all phases and data uses in the CERCLA process.

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The document provides a set of procedures for representsfor maximizing the quality of the inventory given the resources available by describing data and methodology checks, processes governing peer review and public comments. Quality control and quality assurance must be integrated into every step of the inventory development process.

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This Guidance Document is dedicated to the memory of Joyce Zeisler. Her efforts to improve Quality Assurance Programs in New Jersey were instrumental in bringing about this program.

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Although Vietnam has millennia of experience with higher education, its systems have been totally redesigned twice in the last 200 years. Now comes the third reorganisation, based in the on-going renovation (‘doi moi’) of the country’s social organisation so as to fit into a socialist market economy. In such conditions, with meagre resources but a high commitment to education, western ‘quality’ systems retain a freshness that miht no longer be felt in more developed market...

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