{"id":24991,"date":"2025-10-03T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T01:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=24991"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:55:57","slug":"improved-policy-procedures-and-resources-for-third-party-academic-partnerships-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2025\/10\/03\/improved-policy-procedures-and-resources-for-third-party-academic-partnerships-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved policy, procedures and resources for third-party academic partnerships now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive review and redevelopment of the Third-Party Academic Partnerships Policy, Third-Party Academic Partnerships Procedures, and associated templates was recently undertaken by the Office of Academic Quality and Enhancement in close consultation with key stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>This process has resulted in a revised suite of documents, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Third-Party Academic Partnerships Policy<\/li>\n<li>Third-Party Academic Partnerships Procedures<\/li>\n<li>Preliminary Business Case<\/li>\n<li>Full Business Case<\/li>\n<li>Annual Self-Assurance Report, and<\/li>\n<li>Site Visit Report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The improvements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>clarification of roles and responsibilities across the third-party delivery lifecycle<\/li>\n<li>stronger alignment between third-party partnership proposals and curriculum development<\/li>\n<li>inclusion of a TEQSA notification section within the policy<\/li>\n<li>introduction of a Risk-Based Monitoring and Review Schedule<\/li>\n<li>expanded procedures to include guidance on agreement renewal and close-out<\/li>\n<li>strengthened governance through enhanced Terms of Reference and clearer identity for the Third-Party Delivery Oversight Committee (formerly the Third-Party Arrangements Advisory Committee)<\/li>\n<li>refined definitions of third-party academic delivery arrangement types<\/li>\n<li>implementation of a new Annual Self-Assurance Report<\/li>\n<li>improved structure and content of the Full Business Case clarified reporting framework to support governance oversight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new policy and procedures are available now in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/policies\/recently-approved\">Policy Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive review and redevelopment of the Third-Party Academic Partnerships Policy, Third-Party Academic Partnerships Procedures, and associated templates was recently undertaken by the Office of Academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4958,"featured_media":24992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}