Research On Institutional Audit Of UK

In the background of higher education popularity and economicglobalization, higher education is no longer the treasure of “ivory tower” andcolleges are required more social responsibilities. Therefore, the quality of highereducation has become the focus of discussion from various aspects of the society.Higher education evaluation is considered an important way to achieve highereducation goals, assure higher education quality and promote higher educationdevelopment. The institutional audit of UK provides a guarantee for state regulationdevelopment and social supervision of higher education quality, which has obtainedabundant achievements and experiences, and thus these will supply a good anduseful reference to reform and improve the new implement institutional audit of ourcountry.This paper focuses on the process, study and experiences of institutional auditin UK. First, the background and significance of the topic, as well as research resultsrecently about institutional audit at home and abroad are introduced, and qualityassurance in higher education and related assessment methods are compared as well.The connotation, characteristics and value of institutional audit are analyzed andintroduced systematically. From these analyses, we conclude that the new evaluationmodel of institutional audit has the features of indirect, independence, continuity,objectivity and service as well as the systemic aspects. The implementation ofinstitutional audit has significant promotion effect on colleges’ developmentincluding promotion higher education policy adjustment; diversified development;autonomy regression and quality assurance system improvement of colleges anduniversities.Then, from the institutional audit background, audit institutions development,audit process and improvements, the UK’s institutional audit is introduced andstudied in detail. We conclude that the main features of UK’s institutional auditprocedures are very beneficial to develop our country’s implementation schemes ofinstitutional audit. Eventually, based on the above analysis, some suggestions learned from theexperiences of UK’s institutional audit are proposed to better implementationinstitutional audit in our country. These suggestions are as follows: development athird-party and neutral institutional audit agencies; development and improvement ofthe quality assurance system of higher education; enhancement the institutional auditculture; respect in the facts and high-quality requirements for auditors.