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A project led by UWA Business School Professor Phil Hancock has received a $183,000 Innovation and Development Grant from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC).

The new project will collaboratively develop and implement a national model of expert peer review for benchmarking learning outcomes against nationally-agreed thresholds in the Accounting discipline. It aims to provide a process to provide evidence about the quality of accounting degrees offered by higher education providers in Australia and the extent to which such degrees meet or exceed threshold learning outcomes.

The project builds on a report by a group of researchers from five Australian universities, also led by Professor Hancock, titled ‘Accounting for the Future: More Than Numbers.'

The report examined the ways in which tertiary institutions are preparing accounting graduates for professional jobs. It found that the accounting education sector must do more to equip students with non-technical skills such as communication and problem solving.

Accounting is the first discipline seeking to implement a national model of expert peer review to benchmark learning outcomes.

The project's findings will be used for quality assurance, as well as for initiatives to enhance the quality of Accounting degrees.

This project is jointly led by UWA Business School's Professor Phil Hancock and Mark Freeman from the University of Sydney. The project received $125,000 in initial funding from the Australian Business Deans Council, CPA Australia, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the ALTC Discipline Support Strategy. The project has also now received a further $183,000 Innovation and development grant from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

For more information on this grant, see www.altc.edu.au/project-achievement-matters-external-peer-review-accounting-learning-and-teaching-academic-standards .

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