Quality Assurance
Centre for Quality Assurance
Purpose
In this presentation…
External Reviews
What is Quality?
Quality Assurance
Quality Enhancement
Student Engagement
Employability
The OUSL QA mechanism
Faculty QA practices
Way Forward...
External Reviews
External Quality Assurance (Institutional)
OUSL Site Visits from 6 Jan to 11 Jan 2020
External Quality Assurance �( Institutional)
Schedule for Faculties
Day 2 (Tuesday): 07-01-2020
TIME | TEAM 1 FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCES | TEAM 2 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY |
9.00 — 9.30 | Meeting with the Dean, Heads of Departments, Coordinators | Meeting with the Dean, Heads of Departments, Coordinators |
9.30 — 10.00 | Meeting with Academic staff | Meeting with Academic staff |
10.00 - 10.30 | Meeting with Non-Academic staff With Tea | Meeting with Non-Academic staff With Tea |
10.30 -11.00 | Meeting with undergraduate Student | Meeting with undergraduate students |
11.00 -11.30 | Meeting with Diploma/PG students | Meeting with Diploma/PG students |
11.30-13.00 | Observing Facilities: Lecture halls, Computer Labs, science Laboratories, workshop, Research labs, study/discussion areas, canteens, etc., | |
Schedule for Faculties
Day 2 (Tuesday): 07-01-2020
TIME | TEAM 1 FACULTY OF EDUCATION | TEAM2 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES |
14.00 — 14.30 | Meeting with the Dean, Heads of Departments, Coordinators | Meeting with the Dean, Heads of Departments, Coordinators |
14.30 — 15.00 | Meeting with Academic staff | Meeting with Academic staff |
15.00 - 15.30 | Meeting with Non-Academic staff With Tea | Meeting with Non-Academic staff With Tea |
15.30 - 16.00 | Meeting with undergraduate Students | Meeting with undergraduate students |
16.00 - 16.30 | Meeting with Diploma/PG students | Meeting with Diploma/PG students |
Schedule for Faculties
Day 4 (Thursday): 09-01-2020
TIME | TEAM 1 FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES | TEAM 2 FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES |
9.00 — 9.30 | Meeting with the Dean, Heads of Departments, Coordinators | Meeting with the Dean, Heads of Departments, Coordinators |
9.30 — 10.00 | Meeting with Academic staff | Meeting with Academic staff |
10.00 - 10.30 | Meeting with Non-Academic staff With Tea | Meeting with Non-Academic staff With Tea |
10.30 -11.00 | Meeting with undergraduate Students | Meeting with undergraduate Students |
11.00 – 11.30 | Meeting with Diploma/PG students | Meeting with Diploma/PG students |
11.30-12.30 | Observing Documents | Observing Documents |
Your role during visits to the Faculty
About Quality
What is Quality?
Based on a review of various attempts at defining quality in higher education, Harvey and Green (1993) proposed five “ways of thinking about quality”, rather than definitions.
1. Quality as exceptional/excellence
Refers to quality as excellence with regard to the highest best known academic standards.
2, Quality as perfection or consistency
Looks at quality as a process of eliminating defects and aiming for consistent or flawless outcomes.
3. Quality as fitness for purpose
Quality is measured by the level of fulfillment of a stated purpose, mission or goals, either by the University or an academic programme
Not an absolute term and is defined against some form of a standard.
Quality refers to how good something, compared to other similar things. In other words, its degree of excellence.
What is Quality?
4. Quality as value for money
Focus is on the output /input ratio, with the aim of achieving higher efficiency. The quality is attained when a better outcome can be achieved at the same cost, or if the cost can be decreased while the outcome level is maintained.
5. Quality as transformation
This approach views quality as value added and transformation and empowerment of a student through the learning process. In this, quality is achieved when the learning proves transformative for the student.
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is the way in which an institution can guarantee with confidence and certainty, that the standards and quality of its educational provision are being maintained and improved.
The process of quality assurance includes established QA activities from study programme design to curriculum delivery
QA activities are implemented regularly and consistently in all stages with attention for improvements to QA tools
Quality Enhancement
One of the main purposes of quality assurance is quality enhancement. Quality assurance and quality enhancement are thus inter-related
Quality Enhancement is the process of positively changing activities in order to provide for continuous improvement in the quality of institutional provision.
Quality Culture is the ability of the institution, programme etc. to develop quality assurance implicitly in the day to day work of the institution.
Quality Enhancement
Quality
Enhancement
Critical reflection and positive action
Evidence for improvement needs
Annual course Reviews
Periodic Program Reviews
Student feedback
External Feedback
(External Examiners, Industry
External Review
University Strategy drivers
Quality in different areas
Curriculum and syllabuses
Teaching/Learning
Assessment
Learner support
Student Support
Study Programme Design
Admission
RPL
Awards and Criteria
Study Programme Delivery
Subject specific Skill development
Soft skill development
CA and feedback
Teacher-student interaction
student-student interaction
Academic Counseling
Welfare
Administration
Extra Curricula work
Student Engagement
What are our approaches to attract students, from all backgrounds, to come to, feel part of, and feel supported at University?
Student Engagement –�Formal mechanisms for quality and governance
Employability
Final goal of the Quality Assurance and Enhancement should to produce persons with high level of employability.
Employability is about more than jobs.
“…..a set of achievements – skills, understandings and personal attributes – that make graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy.”(Yorke, 2006)
Career
Development Learning
Experience (Work and Life)
Degree Subject Knowledge, skills and Understanding
Generic Skills
Emotional Intelligence
Reflection and Evaluation
Self Esteem
Self Efficacy
Self Confidence
Employability
individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth.
personal judgment of "how well one can execute courses of action
feeling of trust in one's abilities, qualities, and judgment.
Not only Subject knowledge and skills
View of stake holders
The OUSL QA mechanism
Faculty QA procedures
Areas of engagement
QA
Facilities
Program/curriculum/course design
Course development
Course delivery
Assessment and evaluation
Counseling
Enrolments
Student Services
External Quality Assurance ( Study Programmes)
External Quality Assurance (Study Programmes)
Way forward...
Discussion on Quality Enhancement in the Faculty
Faculty Quality Assurance Cell
(FQAC)
Faculty of Education
1. Strengthening the Faculty QA Cell
activities of the Faculty
FQAC
2. Strengthening QA Practices in the Faculty
Conducting awareness program for –
Activities/ quality assurance
Conducting Capacity building workshops for academic staff
Publishing QA activities in website
Providing up-to date information to the students through Faculty Web Pages
Examination Matters
3. Designing/adopting Quality Assurance Tools
4. Implementing of Quality Assurance Tools
(For internal staff Min. 2 courses per Department)
(For Visiting Staff Min. 2 course per Department)