- Quality Assurance Unit
Goals:
To promote the culture of quality at the college; set mechanisms and procedures to regulate the implementation of quality for academic programs and provide technical support to academic departments.
- Responsibilities
- Conduct orientation meetings and workshops and distribute manuals and flayers to promote the culture of quality among faculty members, staff, and students.
- Set quality assurance mechanisms and procedures for the college academic programs, units, and departments.
- Provide technical support to the college academic programs and units in implementing quality assurance procedures.
- Follow-up and review academic program descriptions such:
Program description
Course description
- Follow-up and review the quality reports made by academic programs such as:
Program regular self-study report
Program self-assessment measurements
Program annual report
Courses reports.
- Follow-up the preparation of course files of academic programs and provide support to faculty members if needed.
- Undertake necessary actions to evaluate essential elements of quality assurance at the college such as:
Evaluate facilities.
Evaluate learning resources.
Evaluate work regulations and procedures.
- Determine strength and weakness aspects of implementing quality assurance procedures for academic programs at the college.
- Follow-up the selection of benchmarking indicators for academic programs and conduct comparison.
- Provide technical support to academic programs in setting improvement plans.
- Follow-up the implementation of planning decisions and plans suggested by councils of departments and colleges.
- Coordinate with the accreditation unit at the Deanship of Quality and Skills Development.
- Academic Accreditation Unit
Goals:
Prepare the college and its academic programs to obtain local accreditation from the NCAAA as well as international one.
- Responsibilities:
- Communicate with accreditation agencies locally and internationally.
- Help the college in setting a deal with local and international accreditation agencies.
- Study the requirements, standards, and procedures to apply for accreditation and workshops are conducted accordingly.
- Provide technical support to the college and its academic programs on how to meet the requirements of accreditation.
- Prepare and review reports highlighting the extent to which the college and its academic programs have met accreditation criteria.
- Organize and coordinate internal and external audit visits made by accreditation agencies.
- Set mechanisms for saving and archiving evidence of achieving quality.
- Coordinate with the accreditation unit at the Deanship of Quality and Skills Development.
- Measurement and Evaluation Unit
Goals:
Regulate the process of collecting data of learning outcomes measurement, exam quality measurement, the college performance indicators measurement.
- Responsibilities:
- Measure the college performance indicators and assist the academic programs in measuring their performance indicators.
- Assist academic programs in measuring learning outcomes.
- Assist academic program in measuring exam quality.
- Prepare necessary tools for measuring learning outcomes, performance indicators and exam quality.
- Prepare annual plans for measuring learning outcomes, performance indicators and exam quality.
- Provide technical support to the college programs to implement measuring tools of learning outcomes, performance indicators and exam quality; prepare statistical reports; conduct comparisons (same program at different years, benchmarking).
- Prepare periodical reports about measuring learning outcomes, performance indicators and exam quality.
- Coordinate with the accreditation unit at the Deanship of Quality and Skills Development.
- Training Unit
Goals:
Plan and supervise the training courses conducted at the college as well as documenting and evaluating them.
- Responsibilities:
- Determine the training needs for faculty members, students, and staff.
- Coordinate with the college units and departments that conduct training courses.
- Set the college annual training plan.
- Supervise the training courses conducted at the college.
- Prepare regular reports about the training course at the college.
- Coordinate with the Vice-Rector’s Office for Skills Development.
- Document and save training courses files.
- Create database of training courses and trainees at the college.
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- Planning and Development Unit
Goals:
Supervise the process of setting the college strategic and operational plans and prepare follow-up reports.
- Responsibilities:
- Prepare reports of the preparation for new academic year.
- Supervise the process of setting the college strategic plans and academic programs.
- Supervise the process of setting the college operational plans and academic programs.
- Prepare regular and final reports about the achievement of the college strategic and operational plans and academic programs.
- Prepare the college annual achievement report.
- Coordinate with the Administration of Planning and Development.