AUQA/IEAA Workshop:
Taking the Transnational Education Agenda Forward: Auditing and Good Practice

On behalf of the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) and the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA), we invite you to nominate up to two members of your University to attend a major one-day workshop, Taking the Transnational Education Agenda Forward: Auditing and Good Practice, to be presented jointly by AUQA and IEAA on Wednesday 30 May at Victoria University in Melbourne.

The Workshop, which will build on and extend the outcomes of the AEI/IEAA national workshop in TNE Good Practice held in August 2006, will focus on developments in university TNE good practice and AUQA’s approach to auditing TNE with a focus on Cycle 2 audits, which has a major emphasis on internationalization (including TNE). The two powerpoint presentations from the Workshop are provided here as a reference:

Cycle 2 Audit and TNE
TNE Policies and Practices of AUQA

The first half of the day will involve an update on current university best practice in TNE delivery and quality assurance as well as presentations by AUQA staff on the AUQA Cycle 2 audits.  The latter will focus particularly on the implications of the second round for TNE policy and practice within universities.

The second half of the day will involve workshop breakout discussions around four major themes.  These are currently: (1) risk management, (2) TNE quality frameworks, (3) comparable standards and (4) practical exemplars, resources and tools for management and quality improvement in TNE.

The workshop will be of value to University staff:

• involved in or working on AUQA’s auditing of the University’s international activity, specifically its TNE activity
• responsible for academic quality assurance in TNE.

Places for participants in the workshop are limited to two per university.  Separately, AUQA will invite a number of AUQA auditors to participate in the workshop (auditors will receive an explanatory note from AUQA about this).

Would you kindly bring this invitation to the attention of relevant members of your University and arrange for nomination of up to two workshop participants.  Details should be provided on the attached registration form.  The completed form should be returned to the Executive Director, IEAA, by Friday 18 May 2007.

Yours sincerely,

David Woodhouse
Executive Director
AUQA

Dennis Murray
Executive Director
IEAA