Key Accountability Measures

Key Accountability Measures (KAMs) allow the University to monitor its performance against Flinders Strategic Priorities and Future Directions (FSPFD) goals in the four areas of education, research, international and community engagement.

For more information about KAMs, refer to:

KAMs templates

The following KAMs templates are available:

Education Key Accountability Measures - Education (DOC 26KB)
Research Key Accountability Measures - Research (DOC 25KB)
International Key Accountability Measures - International (DOC 26KB)
Course Review Schedule KAM - Course Review Schedule (DOC 39KB)
Course Review Reports: Summary of Outcomes KAM - Course Review Reports (DOC 27KB)

Annual Review of a Course or a Significant Course Component

The University Policy on Course and Topic Evaluation, Monitoring and Review provides that courses and significant course components (e.g. majors) are monitored annually throught the annual review of Key Accountability Measures.

To facilitate this process, Faculties are asked to complete the Annual Monitoring Form (DOC 39KB) to ensure compliance with this policy provision. For the 2007 KAMs process, Faculties are expected to lodge forms only for Bachelor-level courses. A completed Annual Monitoring form, comprising a KAMs 2007 submission for the Bachelor of International Studies is available as an Example (DOC 39KB) .

Offshore Program Annual Reporting

For each offshore program, the Program Coordinator is required to undertake an annual review of operations during the previous calendar year. The report is to be submitted on the Offshore Annual Reporting Template (DOC 207KB) with the KAMs data, and forms the basis of discussions of KAMs data by Executive Deans and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International).

KAMs reports to Academic Senate

2006 KAMs reports

The following 2006 KAMs report is available:

2006 KAMs Cost Centre Reports (restricted access to authorised staff only).

Note: The 2006 KAMs Report to Academic Senate has yet to be presented.

2005 KAMs reports

The following 2005 KAMs reports are available:

Educational/International Key Accountability Measures overview 2000 - 2004 (PDF 144KB)
Research Key Accountability Measures overview 1998 - 2003 (PDF 265KB) .

Note: KAMs for Education and International were included in a consolidated report in the 2005 cycle. KAMs for Community Engagement were adopted in 2004, after the commencement of the planning and quality assurance cycle, and were not reported on in the 2005 cycle.

2004 KAMs reports

The following 2004 KAMs reports are available:

Educational/International Key Accountability Measures overview 1999 - 2003 (PDF 83KB)
Research Review of Key Accountability Measures 2004 - Research (PDF 599KB) .

KAMs data

Refer to the KAMs data page.