IQAD Gives Training
Ethiopian Civil Service University, Institutional Quality Assurance Directorate (IQAD) gave training for College Deans, Department Heads, Program Coordinators and Centers Directors on scaling up quality through program quality audit on November 19, 2019 at ECSU syndicate room.
Opening of the program Ato Bihonegn Abinet, Institutional Quality Assurance Directorate Director, welcomed the trainees and said that the training primarily aimd at enhancing knowledge of the academia on basic essences of quality and how they can be practiced in academic institutions. It also helps to scale up quality in ECSU academic staffs by identifying their roles and responsibilities in assuring quality, Ato Bihonegn said. He also noted that quality auditing has been exercised in ECSU using HERQA focus areas but there are still gaps in maintaining qualities in the university and this training contributes a lot in bridging the existing gaps between the quality maintainers and the quality assuring body related to the quality issues.
At the training four training topic entitled: Conceptualization Quality and Quality Audit , Program Level Quality Audit and program Self-Assessment, Program Level Quality Audit and Program Self- Assessment and Quality Assurance Management System were presented by Wendyie Kebede, Tariku Tilahun, Alazar Ali and Bihonegn Abinet respectively. In their presentations the trainers pointed out what makes quality issues in academic institutions different from other sectors and the importance of self accountability and improvement for quality enhancement and Assurance. The trainees on their part raised their ideas related to quality maintaining and enhancement and discussed on the issues presented by the trainers.
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