TY - JOUR AB - Notes that expansion of academic quality audit methodologies within higher education institutions is a significant recent development in UK quality assurance, reflecting a shift to more dynamic processes to support self‐regulation. Describes the range of current practice encountered in a survey of 25 higher education providers and offers a series of simple conceptual frameworks that help explain the nature of internal audit processes. A companion article explores the potential of internal academic quality audit for contributing to a national quality assurance framework. VL - 4 IS - 4 SN - 0968-4883 DO - 10.1108/09684889610146181 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09684889610146181 AU - Jackson Norman PY - 1996 Y1 - 1996/01/01 TI - Internal academic quality audit in UK higher education: part I ‐ current practice and conceptual frameworks T2 - Quality Assurance in Education PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 37 EP - 46 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -