QEC FUNCTIONS
QEC is responsible for:
- Promoting public confidence that the quality and standards of the award of degrees are enhanced and safeguarded.
- Reviewing the quality standards and the quality of teaching and learning in each subject area.
- Reviewing the academic affiliations with other institutions in terms of effective management of standards and quality of programs.
- Defining clear and explicit standards as points of reference to the reviews to be carried out. It should also help the employees to know as to what they could expect from candidates.
- Developing qualifications framework by setting out the attributes and abilities that can be expected from the holder of a qualification
- Developing program specifications
- Developing quality assurance processes and methods of evaluation to affirm that the quality of provision and the standard of awards are being maintained and to foster curriculum, subject and staff development, together with research and other scholarly activities.
- Ensuring that the university’s quality assurance procedures are designed to fit in with the arrangements in place nationally for maintaining and improving the quality of Higher Education.
- Developing procedures for the following:
- Approval of new programs
- Annual monitoring and evaluation including program monitoring, faculty monitoring, and student’s perception.
- Departmental review
- Student feedback
- Employer feedback
- Quality assurance of Master’s, M. Phil. And Ph. D. degree programs.
- Subject review
- Institutional assessment
- Program specifications
- Qualification framework
