Audits, audits

Last week was the week of the "Big Audit". An audit team from the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council evaluated the quality assurance system of SAMK - in other words the methods and processes that we use to maintain and develop the quality of our work. The audit was about the QA system as a whole and how QA is related to the basic mission - education, R&D, and interaction with and impact on society and regional development.

The results and the report on how the the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council sees the comprehensiveness, performance and effectiveness of our QA system will be published in March 2009.

If we didn't have anything to do but wait, it would be a long time. But fortunately we do have - like the internal audits. On Thursday it's the course implementation's turn to be evaluated. How is it working? And what about the substitution and transfer of credits, and the studying at the Finnish Online University of Applied Sciences?


Of course auditors want to have proof on how things are done. Still, the audits are very conversational. And once again, a nice chance to learn.



Anne