Training on Quality Assurance Given
The Ethiopian Civil Service University Institutional Planning and Assessment Office organized a two half days training on Quality assurance on November 11 and 12, 2010. The University President, Vice President for Academic Development , Institute Directors, Specialized team leaders, Department Heads, and Administrative Support Team Leaders attended the training.
The training aimed at improving the knowledge, skills and attitude of the participants by exposing them to sound institutional quality audit theories and practice. And it is believed that this will help them to prepare their own institute self evaluation report on internal quality audit.
Opening the training session Honorable Dr. Haile Michael Aberra, President of the University said
the past few years we have been in change process and we have been trying to change and reorganize the academic and the administration services in a more convenient way."
He added that it is the right time to stop and assess what we have achieved and what we haven’t. It is important to assess our programs, course delivery, students’ assessment, and policies we put in place.
In general it is important to assess our internal activities, identify gabs if any and organize ourselves and make our University a learning organization. For this purpose we have to establish quality assurance team at the University and institute level, said Dr. Hailemichael.
Further he stated that we are accountable to the Ministry of Education in relation to education and simultaneously we are accountable to the Ministry of Civil Service in relation to administration. Therefore we are assessed by MOE.
After the training the participants are expected to explain(formulate) ECSC’s internal audit procedures, examine the ten focus area of quality audit carried out by Education and Training Quality Assurance Agency (ETQAA), demonstrate their technique of self evaluation documentation for a given context, and prepare and implement quality enhancement plan.