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NUS is pleased to launch this new database dedicated to students union officers and staff to guide them through what some see as the maze of higher education quality assurance and enhancement.
For ease of access the database has been divided into discrete sections or bundles of information that you might find useful in ensuring and enhancing quality within your institution.
For those of you that are new to this area you are advised to visit the events section and the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) section first.
The past events section contains various NUS briefings and QAA presentations on institutional audit. For example, the NUS briefings on the four phases of institutional audit – in the past events section – event 31st August 2004 - is a useful starting point.
While the QAA – which has been kindly written by the QAA with the student union officer/staff member in mind - details the main work of the agency and where crucial documents can be found on their website.
As you can see some student unions have kindly sent through their student written submission and questionnaires through to us. NUS would be glad to receive further copies, so that they can be shared with other student unions.
The next stage in the database’s development is the collection of student union good practice on institutional audit processes and products. If you have any good tips or ideas on the following we’d be really glad to hear from you:
- Effectively using students’ unions representative structures
- Effectively using university committee representative structures
- How to write good questionnaires
- How to get high response rates from questionnaires
- Running effective focus groups on quality
- Getting institutional funding for institutional audit
- Writing institutional audit development plans
- Running effective institutional audit campaigns
- Using staff support to help manage work on quality in general and institutional audit in particular
Check the contacts page of this site in order to get in touch.
