Institutional Quality Assurance Agency
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The purpose of institutional is to provide information to the public on the quality and standard of educational program offered by the institution. This audit is performed in collaboration with partner organizations along with the institution. The committee is responsible to evaluate the courses and related certifications awarded by the institution and the affiliated ones, if any. As a part of this process, the institution will be able to correct the negative aspects and strengthen the positive aspects more. This way, the institution can improve its service to the students and the students can benefit more from such an institution, which is totally devoted in man making.
To start the process of quality assurance agency for the institutional organizations, the audit team is developed by taking staffs from the institution and its affiliations. Now this team is supposed to go through a wide range of documents related to the way the institution manages the academic responsibilities. To collect this information, the team has to visit the institution and the affiliated institutions to meet their staff and students. Also, they might arrange telephonic interview or video conferencing, for the affiliations which are placed distantly. While interviewing the information on academic standards and academic quality are gathered from the staff and students. They may also review documents in file with past records.
The quality assurance agency ensures the institutions to achieve educational standard so that a student can efficiently reach to the level to receive an award or certification. It also evaluates the opportunities, which are available to the students to help them to reach their highest level. That includes appropriate teaching, support to the students, proper assessment and adequate learning materials are made available to the students. All this information are gathered together and reviewed by the audit team. Finally, they reach to the conclusion and develop the recommendations for the institution to follow.
The outcome of the quality assurance agency identifies the positive and negative aspects of the particular institution. The good practices of the institution are categorized, so that the institution body can understand the effects of their previous quality assuring procedures. The agency might appreciate the structures, processes, procedures and initiatives of the institution to realize the ambition of the students in receiving higher education. It can also recognize the inter personnel relation between the staff and the students, which helps each and every individual to transform into an intelligent, knowledgeable and esteemed human character. These recognitions by the audit committee add more enthusiasm to the overall operation of the institution.
The quality assurance agency finally suggests the recommendations for the institution, to correct the negative points. These recommendations will ask the institution to consider further action in the weak areas to ensure academic quality of educational courses and the standards of certifications it offers. The committee might recommend arranging external examiners for inspecting the modules or it might suggest the institution to provide a unique database system, which will contain all sorts of information and it will be available to each departmental seniors. If required, the committee can also compare the institution with the other reputed institutions of the country and it can judge the institution with respect to the national reference. Whatever be the recommendation, the ultimate objective of this team will look forward to better understanding of progression for the institution, by effectively monitoring the strategic parameters.
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