University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore

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University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences,
Lahore

• 12th Meeting of QECs Heads
• By
• Dawar Hameed Mughal
• Deputy Director QEC
• Email dawar_at_uvas.edu.pk

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QEC Achievements
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Assessment Culture

• Self-Assessment Activities
• Model Department
• Selection of More Departments for SA
• Other Activities

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Activities

• Continuous Self-Assessment
• Director QEC is member of
• Academic Council
• Board of Advanced Studies and Research
• Synopsis scrutiny committee
• Programs Teams Formation
• Surveys completed
• Teachers evaluations
• Alumni, employers, post graduate research
  students etc
• Teachers Evaluation software developed and is
  being used

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Model Departments

• Criteria and Standards developed for the model
  departments
• Vision, Mission
• Objectives and Learning Outcomes
• Curriculum standard course outlines
• 4-Model Department completed their SAR
• 2-Departments submitted SAR to QEC

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Other Activities

• Director QEC participation in the meetings of
  statutory and non statutory of the University
• Course outlines are being standardized with PVMC
• Teacher training was competed 2007

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Other Activities

• Catalytic role of QEC with Institute of
  Continuing Education and Directorate of Advance
  Studies to organize workshops/courses/trainings
  on
• Students Orientation Program
• Research Processes
• Oral and Communication Skills
• Modern trends in livestock dairy sector
• Evaluation of Tenure Track Assistant Professors
  in collaboration of the Registrar office
• Prequalification of candidate before selection
  board

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• Executive Summary

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Summary of Model Departments

• Main issues
• Inadequate hand on work opportunities
• Specific problems
• Teachers shortage
• Short of apparatus
• Theory in practical class
• QEC suggested a basic protocol for conducting
  practical class

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Cont

• 2. Not completing course
• Posting of course contents at the beginning of
  semester does not work
• QEC has suggested
• IT based system to monitor the going on teaching
  of all courses
• Will be implemented immediately

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Cont

• Infrequent field visit
• Unavailability of transport
• Priority for field trips
• Possible solution
• Vehicles are available in a transport pool

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Cont.

• Shortage of books
• Lack of coordination between Library and
  Department
• University has enough funds for the library
• Teacher's interest at the time of book purchase
  is vital

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Cont

• Inadequate lab microscopes
• Suggested to share the labs
• Use all the available microscopes
• Get broken one repaired
• UVAS has an efficient repair work shop
• Purchase more if really needed

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New Teaching issues !

• Teachers overwhelming interest for research
• Less interest in class teaching
• Occasionally post graduate students teach on
  behalf of senior teacher
• Senior teachers opt for less challenging teaching
• Postgraduate teaching
• Course contents are not completed

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Solution !

• Viable solution
• If we can sort out the problem during rather at
  the end of semester
• In collaboration with IT
• After a lecture its outline or ppt has to be
  displayed at University web with teachers name
  and date
• Accessible to staff and students

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Bottlenecks faced

• Departments have to aggressively persuaded for
  the completion of SARs
• Prepare it with out interest rather considering
  is an additional job
• Permanent Director for QEC
• University needs clear cut instruction from QAA
  to appoint whole time Director for QEC based on
  available qualifications

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Thank you for your attention