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    Quality Assurance in Higher Education

    Dr. Tanveer Hussain

    Key Terms*
    Quality Assurance
    Making sure that the academic standards and the quality of provision is satisfactory

    Academic Standard
    The level of learning achievement that a student has to reach to gain an academic degree Defined in terms of learning outcomes and curriculum contents

    Quality of Provision
    Quality of curriculum delivery, learning resources and support services

    Quality Enhancement
    Working continually to make things better, however good the existing quality of provision
    *http://www.abdn.ac.uk/registry/quality/section2.shtml

    Defining Quality Education


    We can define Quality Education as the one which ensures:

    professional competence along with good moral character in students through a positive cognitive and behavioural change.

    Quality of life of citizens of any nation cannot be better than the quality of their education

    Quality Enhancement Cells


    A mechanism of establishment of QECs has been developed by the Quality Assurance Committee to improve the standards of quality of higher education in a systematic way with uniformity across country

    Quality Enhancement Cells


    In 2006-07, the Quality Enhancement Cells (QECs) were established at ten public sector universities,
    In 2007-08 twenty more QECs were established in the public sector universities for improvement of their academic, teaching and learning standards. The QEC family is being extended to another fifteen public sector and seventeen private sector universities in 2009-10. QEC's will be established in the remaining universities in a phased manner

    QAA OPERATIONS: An OUTLINE


    Selection of Peers. Peer Orientation University Rating Standards and Evaluation Guidelines

    Program Self Assessment Guidelines

    Q.E.C

    Q.E.C

    QAC
    Programs

    University Self Assessment

    QAA
    Self Assessment / External Review By Councils

    Accreditation by External Bodies

    University Evaluation by External Peers (Council Members)

    QAA Reports Published

    Q.E.C. Functions
    The Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) is to be headed by a Dean reporting directly to Vice Chancellor/Rector. He is to be the correspondent with the outside bodies. QEC is responsible for promoting public confidence that the quality and standards of the award of degrees are enhanced and safeguarded. QEC is responsible for the review of quality standards and the quality of teaching and learning in each subject area. QEC is responsible for the review of academic affiliations with other institutions in terms of effective management of standards and quality of programs. QEC is responsible for defining clear and explicit standards as points of reference to the reviews to be carried out. It should also help the employees to know as to what they could expect from candidates.

    QEC is responsible to develop qualifications framework by setting out the attributes and abilities that can be expected from the holder of a qualification, i.e. Bachelors, Bachelor with Honors, Masters, M. Phil., Doctoral. QEC is responsible to develop program specifications. These are standard set of information clarifying what knowledge, understanding, skills and other attributes a student will have developed on successfully completing a specific program. QEC is responsible to develop quality assurance processes and methods of evaluation to affirm that the quality of provision and the standard of awards are being maintained and to foster curriculum, subject and staff development, together with research and other scholarly activities.

    QEC is responsible to ensure that the universitys quality assurance procedures are designed to fit in with the arrangements in place nationally for maintaining and improving the quality of Higher Education. QEC is responsible to develop procedures for the following: Approval of new programs Annual monitoring and evaluation including program monitoring, faculty monitoring, and students perception. Departmental review Student feedback Employer feedback Quality assurance of Masters, M. Phil. And Ph. D. degree programs. Subject review Institutional assessment Program specifications Qualification framework

    QEC Organizations
    V.C.

    QEC

    HEC

    PROGRAM ASSESSMENT CENTER

    TEACHING AND LEARNING CETNER Fostering an Environment of Continuous Academic Development Assisting Faculty Members to Attain Highest Standards in Teaching & Research Assisting New Faculty in learning techniques for teaching

    EXTERNAL AFFAIRS CENTER

    Promote Culture of Assessment Improve and maintain highest Academic Standards Enhance Student Learning Provide Feedback for Quality Assurance Program Accreditation by Councils

    Promoting Public Confidence Affiliations Entrance Exams. Organizing Workshops on Test Construction Techniques Studying Students PreUniversity Performance and Performance in Specific University Subjects.

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