Education Quality Directorate

What does Education Quality Directorate do?

Education Quality Directorate (EQD):

  • Oversees UNE's quality assurance policies (such as the Academic Quality Assurance Policy) and reports on processes.
  • Supports continuous improvement through UNE’s quality assurance processes, including thematic academic reviews, course reviews, course monitoring, unit monitoring, benchmarking, and course accreditation.
  • Provides academic quality reports to UNE’s academic governance and management bodies, to inform and support effective strategic decision-making, aligned with the Academic Quality Reporting Framework.
  • Monitors the sector to identify and respond to issues affecting academic quality in the higher education space.
  • Manages, coordinates and analyses results of internal and external student surveys, supporting effective decision making within the quality improvement cycle.

Who makes up the team?

Meet the people who make up the Education Quality Directorate within Education Futures:

Director

NameContact
Director, Education Quality Directoratedirector-eqd@une.edu.au

Quality assurance
NameContact
Julie Hunter
Project Manager, EQD
jhunte42@une.edu.au
Dr Sura Alani
Reviews Coordinator
salani3@une.edu.au
Alex Pont
Accreditation Officer
accreditation@une.edu.au
TEQSA re-registration
NameContact
Tahlia Stace
TEQSA Re-registration Project Manager 
tahlia.stace@une.edu.au
Dr Vernon Crew
Specialist, TEQSA Re-registration
vcrew@une.edu.au
Monitoring and reporting
NameContact
Susan Birchall
Manager, Analytics and Reporting
sbirchal@une.edu.au
Emily O'Brien
Data and Funding Coordinator
eobrien4@une.edu.au
Simon Ostler
Academic Quality and Analytics Officer
sostler@une.edu.au
David Lucas
Survey Officer
evaluati@une.edu.au