Developing Model of Quality Assurance for Higher Education Institutes

The main focus of this study is to examine similarity, excellence, and lack of the programs implementation, including ISO 9001: 2015, SPMI, SPIP and Accreditation an effort of quality assurance to improve the performance of higher education institutes. Recently, there is no synchronization between auditors including Satuan Pengawas Internal/Internal Audit Unit (SPI), Audit Mutu Internal (AMI), Audit ISO 9001: 2015 and Sistem Akuntabilitas Kinerja Instansi Pemerintah (SAKIP). The purpose of this study is to develop an integrative model of quality assurance in higher education performance which refer to the requirements described in the national standard of higher education (SNPT). The standard of quality assurance covered eight of national education standards, added with standard of education and learning, research standard and standard of community service. This research design was qualitative method that includes a case study in Bengkulu Health Polytechnic. Data were collected by applying the qualitative methods namely observation, interview, and documentation. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. This research found that there were similarity, excellence and lack of each accreditation program. As an alternative, a new form of quality assurance program, called integrative model of performance was developed in order to enhance the quality of higher education institutes to fulfill the requirements in the national standard of higher education.