Administration

Quality Assurance Department

Mission

The Quality Assurance Department is dedicated to enhancing the quality of all aspects of the work of the College.

Using professional standards, such as:

The department seeks to advance

Our activities aim to utilize a professional System that assures the highest possible level of quality

To implement the Institution’s approach to quality assurance and enhancement in an efficient and effective manner.
To ensure a commitment not only to quality assurance but also to the enhancement of the quality of the student experience.
To establish a comprehensive self-evaluation system in the field of quality control in the College.
To demonstrate that standards of programs/courses are appropriate and meet the requirement of the Oman’s System of Quality Assurance and other external benchmarks.

To develop a system to monitor and review the effectiveness of the College’s quality assurance policies and procedures and consider the following:
The annual review of programs of study
The validation and approval of new of programs of study through the academic board.
Student representation and feedback
Assessment procedures
Staff development and training issues raised by review procedure and as appropriate to recommend to Academic Board the introduction of new quality assurance procedures and modifications to established systems.
To prepare an annual report and a quality Handbook.
To advise and assist academic and service units in carrying out self-assessment procedures;
To manage responses to the requirements of external quality agencies
To ensure the effective implementation of College systems for the comparability of the standards of programs of study - with reference to standards across and within disciplines.
To prepare forms and surveys for data entities.
To advise on any other matters which may from time to time be determined by the Academic Board.

Omani National Framework

Quality Assurance And Improvement
The quality assurance and improvement strategy involves all parts of the institution, is led by a senior staff member as a major responsibility, and includes staff from all areas.
The institution’s quality assurance system is fully integrated into the normal planning and development strategies in a defined cycle of planning, implementation, assessment and review.
All administrative units and sections within the institution, including the governing body, are included in the process of quality assurance and improvement.
Procedures involve continual monitoring of achievement of objectives as well as periodic self evaluation with results reported.
Each administrative unit establishes appropriate and challenging objectives which reflect the mission and linked to specific performance indicators.
Objectives which reflect the mission and are linked to specific performance indicators.
Performance evaluation includes comparisons with comparable institutions selected to provide appropriate benchmarks for significant activities.
Institutions selected to provide appropriate benchmarks for significant activities.
The self review process incorporates feedback from individuals external to the institution in a planned program of reviews.

The supervision, maintenance and development of all quality assurance procedures in the College are within the remit of Academic Board.
Responsibility for aspects of this remit is delegated to a series of committees at the College.
Quality assurance procedures are subject to the general policy statements of the College for the development, validation, monitoring and review of programs of study.
The College has a well-established set of principles which form the context within which these structures and procedures operate. These are:

Evaluation of academic quality is owned and takes place at the closest point possible to the actual process of teaching and learning;

Continuous processes characterize quality assurance in the College;
Quality assurance in the College is a dynamic and not a static process, and is closely linked with other internal processes;
Quality assurance is proactive and forward looking rather than retrospective and reactive;
Quality assurance in the College is responsive to national developments, and in particular is informed by the precepts of the Quality Assurance Agency’s Code of Practice, while remaining rooted in the College’s mission and value