- Title
- A Case Study of an Institutional Audit: A Social Realist Account
- Creator
- Quinn, Lynn, Boughey, Chrissie M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/483215
- Identifier
- vital:78733
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13538320903343172
- Description
- Since 1994, the South African higher education system, fragmented and divided along racial lines during the years of apartheid, has been subject to a wide range of initiatives directed at bringing about the ‘transformation’ necessary for a more equitable dispensation and, ultimately, a new social order. One of the ‘levers’ being used in transformation processes is quality assurance. The paper uses a case study of an institutional audit at one historically white, élite South African university to provide a social realist account of an audit process and to analyse the likelihood of the audit contributing to institutional transformation. A conclusion is that the South African audit methodology per se is unlikely to bring about the change necessary because of its tendency to focus on the mechanistic implementation of recommendations.
- Format
- 14 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Quality in Higher Education, Quinn, L. and Boughey, C. (2009) ‘A Case Study of an Institutional Audit: A Social Realist Account’, Quality in Higher Education, 15(3), pp. 263–278. doi: 10.1080/13538320903343172, Quality in Higher Education volume 15 number 3 263 278 2009 1470-1081
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Boughey, Chrissie M (Prof)
Quinn, Lynn (Prof)
RU Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL)
SDG 04. Quality Education
RU Department of Education
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