The audit team presents FINHEEC with its appraisal of whether the HEI should pass the audit or whether a re-audit needs to be conducted. The report contains the team’s evaluation of the development stage of each audit target. The audit team can propose that the institution passes the audit if none of the targets is ‘absent’ and if the quality system as a whole (audit target 6) is at least ‘developing’. The evaluation of the quality system as a whole focuses on whether quality management procedures form a comprehensive and functioning system and whether the quality culture supports the development of the operations. The features of ‘developing’ and ‘advanced’.
