Internal quality assurance is becoming ever more significant among universities. However the perception towards the purpose of internal quality assurance differs from person to person.
Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) in Higher Education is to maintain the Quality in education and Academic Audit to check the performance of Institute/ University.
The development of internal quality assurance systems by higher education institutions is a means of monitoring and managing quality of the research and education as well.
Thank you for your responses. Why is so much focus on quality assurance in higher education from your perspective? Do you agree with what is written above, sited by various other authors and are there other reasons for ensuring internal quality assurance in higher education?
An essential aspect for the internal control of quality is to check if an activity has been carried out in accordance with the requirements established in a standard. This verification is carried out by the organization itself and, therefore, it must follow a design and planning, which can achieve a good performance if it has an implemented management system, where the controls are carried out by inspection or audit. When it does not have a management system, it runs the risk of achieving quality control actions, because it does not perform the control or does it on a routine basis with little demand, so that the objectives of internal control are not met. On the other hand, internal control is a necessary requirement for an acceptable performance of the organization in an external control program