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65, DECE.\4BER 1992
the College Newsletter cademic Audit
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roftssor Robert Hill, Chairman of the Academic Audit &view Croup, describes preparations for the 'Visit ofthe CVC? Academic Audit Unit to King's in November /993. It is clear from the limited budget for higher education and the example of the research rating exercise that funding in the higher education sector will only gain maximum support when it is recognised as excellent. There is,
therefore, a requirement that not only should we, as a College, be certain that what we do i excellent, but that we should be able to demonstrate that this is the case. If, at the same time, we can develop the demonstration procedures for our own u e there is advantage to be gained in carrying them through. The scheme of academic audit allows us to do this. An audit trail is a logical and sequential path of enquiry which is designed to make clear the strengths and weaknesses of an activity. The CVCP, in 1989, realising that the binary line was in the process of being
dismantled and that the 'new' universities already had a trong background of review, initiated academic audit within the university sector. Since then the technique of audit has become accepted as an effective means of internal and external academic review. The CVCP cademic Audit nit will be visiting the College in ovember 1993 in order to carry out the first of a continuing series of academic audits. In preparation for this the Standing
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