The Institutional Audit as an opportunity for reflection and improvement. Institutional reflexivity is necessary to ensure that the university is viable and sustainable in the long run. Ultimately, the Institutional Audit is meant to build trust, confidence, and a sense of shared values, aspirations, and purposes between the higher education sector and the CHE, between the sector and its stakeholders, and between the sector and the public.

Given that the Institutional Audit is not intended as an exercise in compliance with minimum standards, the university is required to focus on what they do to assure quality, what evidence they gather to ensure that quality is achieved, monitored, and maintained.
 
Guiding questions such as the following may be used: 
a. What are the goals the institution intends to achieve? 
b. How is it working to achieve these goals? 
c. What plans, procedures, and resources are in place to achieve these goals? 
d. How does the institution know when those goals have been achieved? 

The Focus Areas, Standards and Guidelines guide the university in the preparation of the entire Self-evaluation Report (SER), which consists of the Institutional Profile, the Self-Evaluation, and the Portfolio of Evidence (PoE). They also direct the evaluations undertaken by the audit panel members who conduct site visits, and their subsequent compilation of the audit report.

The UFS’ institutional site visit will take place from 9 to 13 May 2022.

Undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as all levels and categories of staff from across the university, are required to participate. Keep an eye out for communication in this regard. We will also introduce our CHE IA ambassadors on our platforms. Participating in the university’s Institutional Audit promotes collective learning, un-learning, re-learning, and collective responsibility. We are all answerable to contribute meaningfully to this collective activity.