The AKU Network of Quality Assurance and Improvement (QAI_net) hosted the Provost Series on November 24, 2016. Titled How Do We Know That We Are Providing a Programme of Good Quality? A Modern (R)evolution, the session was facilitated by Dr Sam Scully. Dr Sam Scully is an Academics Without Borders (AWB) volunteer working with QAI_net. Dr Scully is also the Founding Chair of the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance and Past Vice President Academic and Provost of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and University of Victoria, British Columbia.
The event was attended by 48 faculty and staff in 4 sites across AKU entities in Pakistan, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The speaker gave the background on programme quality and the need for a richer understanding of the value and benefits of modern practice in quality assurance. The speaker also articulated the importance of student voice in reviews and the shift to focus more on learning outcomes. The speaker also spent time discussing on what makes a self-study effective. He pointed out the importance of some self-Study components such as leadership, evaluation criteria, collective commitment to improvement, total honesty, rigour, reflection, self-critical analysis and a realistic improvement plan.
The QAI-net will continue to support entities to continuously focus on improving programmes offered by the university.
The AKU Network of Quality Assurance and Improvement (QAI_net) hosted the Provost Series on November 24, 2016. Titled How Do We Know That We Are Providing a Programme of Good Quality? A Modern (R)evolution, the session was facilitated by Dr Sam Scully. Dr Sam Scully is an Academics Without Borders (AWB) volunteer working with QAI_net. Dr Scully is also the Founding Chair of the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance and Past Vice President Academic and Provost of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and University of Victoria, British Columbia.
The event was attended by 48 faculty and staff in 4 sites across AKU entities in Pakistan, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The speaker gave the background on programme quality and the need for a richer understanding of the value and benefits of modern practice in quality assurance. The speaker also articulated the importance of student voice in reviews and the shift to focus more on learning outcomes. The speaker also spent time discussing on what makes a self-study effective. He pointed out the importance of some self-Study components such as leadership, evaluation criteria, collective commitment to improvement, total honesty, rigour, reflection, self-critical analysis and a realistic improvement plan.
The QAI-net will continue to support entities to continuously focus on improving programmes offered by the university.
