Benchmarking course approval, accreditation, review and third party arrangements: Final report

This report provides an account of a national benchmarking exercise involving five Australian Universities: Curtin University of Technology, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Tasmania, and Western Sydney University. The benchmarking exercise was considered mutually beneficial to address the Higher Education Standards Framework (HESF) (2015), particularly in relation to Standard 5.1 (Course approval, accreditation and review); Standard 5.3 (Monitoring, review and improvement); and 5.4 (Third party agreements).