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- Title: When is an Auditor Really a Regulator? the Metamorphosis of the Australian Universities Quality Agency: Implications for Australian Higher Education Public Policy.
- Author : University of Queensland Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 319 KB
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The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) is a company owned by national, state and territory Ministers of Education. It is not a de jure regulatory authority. This article argues, however, that AUQA performs an important de facto public regulatory role in respect of the performance of various institutions, and that the implications of this for public policy ought to be explored. The analysis in this article is confined to the university part of AUQA's activities. AUQA performs a role whereby the performance of Australian universities is measured against objectives and standards, some of which are determined by parties external to the universities. These parties include AUQA. Some of the externally determined standards are implicit, others are explicit. AUQA's de facto regulatory powers can be exercised in two principal ways. its Board can, firstly, recommend sanctions to government if it is not satisfied with the responses of a university to its requirements. Secondly, it can exert significant pressure on universities through highly public processes of engagement with those universities which AUQA decides do not meet its expectations. This article adduces evidence of AUQA's de facto regulatory behaviour. It outlines some public policy implications and suggests, for example, that this behaviour be governed, in general, by the principles of efficient regulation, and, in particular, by Australian government regulation impact statement processes. The article also argues that efficient implementation of these proposals cannot be achieved under AUQA's current legal form.
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