APQN Database of Consultants
Jeanette
Nominated By: David Woodhouse
Nominee Application Form: Part A
Title: Doctor
Family Names(s): Baird
Mailing Address: TEQSA 123
GPO Box 1672
Melbourne 3001
AUSTRALIA
GPO Box 1672
Melbourne 3001
AUSTRALIA
Country: Australia
Office Telephone: +61 3 8613 3952
Office Fax: 1300 739 586
Residence Telephone: +61 3 98822415
Email: jeanette.baird@teqsa.gov.au
Nationality/Citizenship: Australian
Date of Birth: 01-02-1956
Current Position: Branch Manager, Regulation and Quality Assurance
Current Employer: Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
Please indicate your fluency levels in various languages (Comma Separated)
Fluent in Reading: German,English
Fluent in Writing: German,English
Fluent in Speaking: German,English
Academic Qualifications and Training
1. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: MBA,RMIT University,1992
2. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: B Litt,University of Melbourne,1988
3. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: BA (Hons),University of Melbourne,1979
4. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: PhD,University of New England,2004
Nominee Application Form: Part B
Areas:
- Institutional quality assurance reviews / audits
- General QA consultancy
Specialisations:
- Setting up of new QA agency
- Training of experts/external reviewers
- Internal QA of institutions
- Self study guidance to institutions
- External review of institutions
- Quality Indicators and benchmarks
- External Review of QAAs
- Institutional assessment
- Institutional quality audits
- Institutional accreditation
- QA of cross border offerings
Examples of Experience: National & International Consultations / Audit / Review
1. Brief Description: Quality audits of government HE accrediting agencies in Australia
Institution/City/Country: Qld Office of Higher Education NT Dept of Education, Employment and Training
Date: 2005
Type of Experience:
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
2. Brief Description: Establishment of new HE quality assurance agency
Institution/City/Country: Government, Kingdom of Bahrain
Date: 2007-08
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
3. Brief Description: Training of reviewers for university accreditation
Institution/City/Country: Vietnam
Date: 2006, 2007
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
4. Brief Description: Institutional Academic Audit, Divine Word University
Institution/City/Country: Papua New Guinea Saudi Arabia
Date: 2011, 2010
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
Nominee Application Form: Part C
Please write a professional profile of 500 words.
Professional Summary Description: Dr Jeanette Baird has a background in higher education and public sector management, with research interests in higher education policy, quality assurance and governance. Before joining the new Australian agency for higher education quality assurance, TEQSA, in a senior role, Jeanette was Executive Director and before that an audit director at the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). She has been audit director for institutional audits of a range of universities, other higher education providers, and government accreditation agencies. In 2007-8 she took a lead role in the establishment of a higher education quality assurance system for the Kingdom of Bahrain, a consultancy project undertaken by AUQA that involved developing standards, systems, operating procedures and manuals and training reviewers and staff. She has conducted other consulting assignments, such as training of reviewers for university accreditation in Vietnam, and has presented at numerous international and national conferences. In 2008, she led a government-funded project to develop a set of national good practice principles for English language proficiency for international students in Australian universities. In 2010 and 2011 she has been a panel member and chair of external institutional reviews in Saudi Arabia and Papua New Guinea. Also in 2010 and 2011, she has advised the Australian Government on the development of new standards for the registration of higher education providers and accreditation of their courses. She has presented and published on: university governance, graduate attributes, research management, the student experience, risk management, collaborative provision, quality assurance, standards, and qualifications frameworks.
Documents Submitted
Located in: APQN Database of Consultants
