Question+2

** Scenario 2: The roles and responsibilities for Quality Assurance outside of the institution **

Your programme/course has been selected for an audit by the QAA. Your Department Head/Dean has asked you to lead the team that prepares the documentation and interviewed by the auditors.

• Question 2: What is a collaborative audit?

==== Where an institution works in collaboration with partner colleges to provide education the QAA review will include an audit of those distant partners. The Institutional audit process covers provision offered by an institution in collaboration with other providers, both in the UK and overseas. ====

==== If the QAA decides that an institution's collaborative provision cannot properly be addressed as part of the standard Institutional audit model, they may chose to carryout a separate audit of the institution's management of its collaborative provision which will be arranged between QAA and the institution. Alternative an audit called a Hybrid Institutional Audit could take place. ====

==== The decision whether there will be a collaborative provision review is made soon after the dates for an institution's audit have been agreed: about one year prior to the Institutional audit. This decision is made on the basis of the situation at the scheduled time of the Institutional audit. It will be irrespective of whether a separate collaborative provision audit was made under the transitional arrangements. ====