tailieunhanh - Audit manual for the quality systems of higher education institutions  2011 – 2017

The Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC) has conducted audits of the quality systems of higher education institutions (HEIs) since 2005. The goal of the audits is to support Finnish HEIs in developing their quality systems to correspond to the European quality assurance principles 1 and to demonstrate that Finland has competent and systematic national quality assurance in place for higher education. Under the Finnish Universities Act and Polytechnics Act, HEIs are responsible for the quality and continuous development of their education and other operations. Legislation also requires them to regularly perform external evaluations of their operations and quality systems and to publish the results of such evaluations. FINHEEC is an. | Audit manual for the quality systems of higher education institutions 2011-2017 ISBN 978-952-206-183-6 print edition ISBN 978-952-206-184-3 pdf ISSN 1457-3121 Publisher Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council Cover Juha Ilonen Layout Pikseri Julkaisupalvelut Tammerprint Oy Tampere 2011 Foreword The Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council FINHEEC has conducted audits of the quality systems of higher education institutions HEIs since 2005. The goal of the audits is to support Finnish HEIs in developing their quality systems to correspond to the European quality assurance principles1 and to demonstrate that Finland has competent and systematic national quality assurance in place for higher education. Under the Finnish Universities Act and Polytechnics Act HEIs are responsible for the quality and continuous development of their education and other operations. Legislation also requires them to regularly perform external evaluations of their operations and quality systems and to publish the results of such evaluations. FINHEEC is an independent expert body that organises evaluations of the operations and quality systems of HEIs. It may also take assignments from international parties. Finnish HEIs decide on their own quality systems and the comprehensiveness functioning and effectiveness of the systems are evaluated in the audits. Thus the audit approach corresponds to the principle of enhancement-led evaluation which has become a strong tradition in the Finnish evaluation practice. According to the audit reports and feedback received from HEIs the audits have enhanced the systematic development of quality systems and operating methods. The audits have also led to the creation of exceptionally comprehensive evaluation material on the Finnish higher education system which also enables comparisons in the field. All Finnish HEIs will be audited or at least their audits will begin by the end of 2011. Since the audits are valid for six years a second round of audits .