ABSTRACT
The institutional audit process is intended to combine scrutiny of internal QA systems at an institutional level with investigations of how those systems operate at the level of the discipline and the level of the programme. In this context a discipline is a defined area of academic study and programme is defined as ‘the full diet of modules, options, and other structured learning opportunities, individual research study, and associated learner support, which together comprise a pathway that leads to an award’ (Handbook for Institutional Audit, p 1).
