1. 1 AUQA Preparation Overview Faculty of Business and Economics

2. 2 University Planning Environment Vision: – Macquarie@50 Strategic Plans: –Strategic Directions: Partnership and Performance –Research Strategic Plan –Learning and Teaching Plan Operational Plans: –Review of Academic Structure –Curriculum Review –Capital Management Plan –One Voice, One Image

3. 3 Quality Enhancement Framework Academic Governance Policy and Planning Management Evaluation and Review

4. 4 Academic Governance Faculty Board as representative academic assembly with student and cross Faculty representation L&T, Research, FSQC, SE Faculty Executive as operational management group Terms of Reference for all faculty committees Agendas and minutes to be posted on FBE Intranet Loss of International Custodian ? Themes: Representative Accountable Transparent

5. 5 Development of Faculty Strategic Objectives Faculty and Departmental operational plans by Mid June Review and documentation of existing processes and guidelines Revision of budget/plan alignment Appointment of Faculty Secretary Development of Faculty intranet Planning Taxonomy and Scope ? Policy and Planning Themes: Unified Consistent Quality

6. 6 Faculty –New Faculty structure and roles –Prof development of Faculty Executive –Headstart Programme for ADs/HoDs –Position descriptions for HoDs and ADs –Workload Model Review –Faculty KPIs embedded in PDR L&T –Focus upon Quality Assurance –Transition to new degrees (UG and PG) –Foundation Year development and new curriculum Research and HDR –Alignment of support for research with research outputs –Identification of research specialisms –HDR Enrolments and Completions Management Themes: Coordination Deployment Performance

7. 7 Local graduate market research completed LEU/LET data driven interventions External Reviews of Dept Accounting and Finance & Dept Economics in 2009. Review of moderation arrangements for all partners Unit review, and degree review planning cycle. University Honours and Graduate review pending Absence of Market and Cohort Data Evaluation and Review Themes: Results Reflection Improvement

8. 8 Issues ? Lack of clarity in planning hierarchy Lack of data, and systems to collect/collate data, to help us understand where we are. External engagement and community referencing not systemised or resourced International recruitment focus rather than cohort experience