The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) was an independent national agency set up to promote, audit, and report on quality assurance in Australian higher education. AUQA was a not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee, and was registered on 24 May 2000. AUQA was created by the Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA), the group of nine ministers responsible for higher education in the Australian Commonwealth government and each of the six States and two Territories. AUQA was dissolved in 2011 and closed in January 2012, and its functions were transferred to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA).
AUQA had four objects: (1) Arrange and manage a system of periodic audits of QA arrangements relating to the activities of Australian universities, other self-accrediting institutions (SAIs) and state and territory HE accreditation bodies; (2) Monitor, review, analyse and provide public reports on QA arrangements in SAIs, and on processes and procedures of state and territory accreditation authorities, and on the impact of those processes on quality of programs; (3) Report on the criteria for the accreditation of new universities and non-university HE courses as a result of information obtained during the audit of institutions and state and territory accreditation processes; and (4) Report on the relative standards of the Australian HE system and its QA processes, including their international standing, as a result of information obtained during the audit process.
These annual reports reflect the activities undertaken by AUQA and highlight significant achievements of each year of operation.
Edited excerpt from annual report 2002 and additional information.
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