Definition

Quality Assurance Center (QAC) at Tishreen University seeks improving the quality of inputs, processes and outputs through an integrated system. This system basically depends on evaluation, supervision, follow-up and support for all institutional and academic components and practices in accordance with the university’s vision, mission and goals. Moreover, QAC seeks fulfilling the requirements of approved standards in cooperation and mutual interaction with peer local and external units, centers and bodies. The main goal of these is to work on acquiring the trust of society in the university's role, outputs and development capabilities in Syrian Arab Republic.

Tasks

To achieve its goals, QAC performs the following tasks:

1- Setting up the general policies that achieve the QAC's goals.

2- Setting up the quality assurance strategy at the university, updating and developing it periodically, and supervising its implementation.

3- Setting up mechanisms for evaluating the university administrations and following up their implementation and development.

4- Working on implementing the national plans and programs related to developing the quality of higher education.

5- Participating in preparing the strategic plan of the university.

6- Developing and building human capabilities at the university to achieve the quality assurance system and its continuous development.

7- Following up the work of Quality Assurance Units at faculties and higher institutes, and determining the extent of their effectiveness in implementing quality assurance mechanisms within the faculty/institute through analyzing and evaluating the periodic reports of these units.

8- Providing the necessary support for faculties and higher institutes and preparing them to apply for institutional or academic accreditation for their programs whether internally or externally.

9- Establishing communication channels with the relevant units, centers and bodies that work in the field of quality assurance and accreditation at higher education.

10- Proposing incentives and rewards for distinguished activities at the work of QAC and Quality Assurance Units.

11- Considering the rules governing the quality, excellence and creativity awards at the university.

12- Creating integrated databases for all quality fields at the university.

13- Doing studies and providing research in the field of quality and accreditation at higher education, and publishing them in specialized periodicals and publications.

Activities

The scientific and educational activities carried out by QAC at Tishreen University during the year 2020:

1- The institutional self-evaluation project, which included:

 -Adopting standards for institutional self-evaluation at Tishreen University.

- Forming work teams at faculties and higher institutes.

- Forming a review-audit team for the work of the teams.

- Holding an introductory workshop on institutional self-evaluation at the university.

- Following up the work of the institutional self-evaluation teams, reviewing the results of the evaluation and carrying out a draft for it.

2- Participating in qualifying the new assigned  engineers at Tishreen University by participating in the training program entitled “Quality Management”.

3- Participating in auditing the accreditation of refereed academic journals by the Academic Accreditation Committee at Ministry of Higher Education.

4- Participating in developing the performance of quality assurance centers by the Quality Assurance Committee at Higher Education Council.

5- Participating in implementing quality and accreditation systems by the Accreditation Committee at Higher Education Council.

6- The internal audit program for faculties and higher institutes at the university for the academic year 2019/2020:

- The internal audit teams at the university, under the supervision of QAC, performed the audits on the faculties that had not been audited in the previous academic year, which included:

-     Faculty of Agriculture

-     Faculty of Law

-     Faculty of Pharmacy

-     Higher Institute of Marine Research

-     Faculty of Civil Engineering

At the end of each audit, the audit reports were duly submitted to the deanships of faculties and higher institutes at the university, attached by corrective actions to be avoided within three months from the date of issuance of each report.

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