Conception of Quality Assurance and Accreditation Speaker Secretary Reviewer Lamia Mahmoud

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Conception of Quality Assurance and
Accreditation Speaker
Secretary Reviewer
Lamia Mahmoud
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Introduction

• Holding workshop seminars about QA awareness

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Definitions of quality assurance and
accreditation process
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Quality assurance is defined as

• The means of ensuring academic standards, the
  quality of learning opportunities and research in
  line with standards nationally and
  internationally .

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Accreditation is defined as

• The recognition accorded by the agency to an
  institution which
• demonstrate that its programmes meet acceptable
  standards .

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• Has effective systems to ensure the quality and
  continuing improvement of its academic programmes.

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The role of the agency

• To promote quality assurance in higher education
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• To encourage improvement in academic standards
  and quality of learning opportunities .

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• Facilitate the development application of
  national standards.
• Support institution to develop their internal
  quality assurance systems.

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The mission of the agency

• To ensure quality , continuous development and
  efficient performance of Egyptian higher
  education institutions .

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• To gain the confidence of the community in their
  graduates by depending on distinguished ,
  competent human resources .

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Principles of QA process

• Focus on the customer (students ,society , labour
  market) .
• Leadership (uniting vision ,aims and strategies).

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• People involvement .
• Focuss on tools (process,
• means, outcomes) .

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• Adopting decisions on the basis of fact .
• Continuous improvement.
• Autonomy (respecting the responsibility of an
  institution for its academic activities).

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• Mutual benefits (reviewers ,institutions,
  students and community) to
• - Optimises the development .
• - Transfer of knowledge and skills .

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• Next steps
• (agency and institutions are in
• a dynamic and open-ended process of
• improvement, have to identify next
• actions and issues).

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Academic standards

• Intended learning outcomes (ILO).
• Curricula.
• Student assessment.
• Student achievement.

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Intended learning outcomes

• They are the knowledge , understanding, skills
  which the institution intends for its
  programmes.

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Curricula

• The curricula for the programme facilitate the
  attainment of the intended learning outcomes.

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Student assessment

• A set of processes, including examinations and
  activities conducted by the institution to
  measure the achievement of the ILO s of course /
  programme.

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• Assessment provides the means to ranking students
  according to their achievements.

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• Students should be well informed on the criteria
  by which they are assessed and give them feedback
  to support their continuing learning.

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Student achievement

• Levels of students achievements are maintained
  by using of external reference points ,
  moderation and evaluation of achievement.

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Quality of learning opportunities

• Teaching and learning.
• Student support .
• Learning resources.

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Teaching and learning

• It should be effective teaching and learning .
• A shared , strategic view of learning .
• Appropriate teaching methods .
• Due attention to encouraging of
• independent learning .

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Student support

• Academic and pastoral support for the
• students ensures the progression and information
• about their programmes .

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Learning resources

• The institutions facilities for learning should
  be appropriate and used effectively .
• Academic , technical and administrative members
  should meet the academic standards for learning
  and teaching .

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Research and scholarly activities

• How to relate these activities (organization of
  research , scholarly activity , doctoral
  students) to the other academic activities in the
  institution .

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Community involvement

• The institution , by its mission , makes a
  significant contribution to the community , its
  serves to society and to the wider environment.

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The Effectiveness of Quality Management and
Enhancement

• Governance and leadership.
• Quality assurance systems
• Self-evaluation,improvement plans and impact of
  earlier improvement plans .

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• Thank you for listening