[Unpad.ac.id, 29/11/2012] As of today, Unpad has yet to have ideal number of competent auditors to run necessary internal audit. The Quality Assurance Unit (SPM) only hosts 58 auditors responsible for auditing all faculties and study programs in Unpad.
“The number of auditors should be at least 10% of the total number of lecturers in Unpad,” said Bethy Suryawathy, the head of SPM Unpad. Should the number be met, it would be ideal for Unpad to have its 16 faculties and 140 study programs audited. In order to overcome this, SPM organized a two-day workshop on internal quality audit in Unpad campus in Dipati Ukur.
Suryawathy explained that the workshop is significant in order to change the stigma attached to auditing processes. Many have feared of being audited whereas the process is actually necessary to check if a study program has met the standards that an institution has previously approved.
“The workshop will get them to think that an audit should never be feared,” said he.
Now, almost all study programs in Unpad are willing to have themselves internally audited for they know that the process will enable them to anticipate and fix ineffeciency in their study programs. Auditing processes in Unpad focus more on academic documents, such as curriculum or standards that Unpad has previously set.
The two-day workshop covered two aspects–theory and auditing simulation presented by a team from Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) consisting of Dr. Ir. Ahmad Darobin Lubis, M.Sc., QIA., and Dr. Wonny Ahmad Ridwan, S.E., M.M. The first session included basic auditing, planning and procedure, audit work program, auditing standards, and ethics.
Simulation is held on Friday on which the 27 participants audited directly study programs in Unpad. They were divided into groups, each of which would go to a study program and ask for necessary documents to be examined.
“Their finding is to be reported. They are assigned to remind the study program about the incompleteness the program has yet to meet,” said she.
The workshop is expected to result in excellent auditors who thoroughly understand the process of academic audit. “All study programs will in time maintain their awareness of the importance of auditing,” concluded she.
