9th -12th April, 2019, AAU Secretariat| Trinity Road, East-Legon| Accra, GhanaT
Theme: Revitalizing the 21st Century Higher Education Quality Assurance (QA) Personnel, Systems, Tools, Processes and Procedures
Aim of the workshop
Intensive training to equip HE QA personnel with the foundations for efficient and effective operations. Key aspects to be covered include internal and external QA: Strategies for developing, promoting and sustaining the quality culture, QA policies, manuals and management systems, research quality, curriculum design and review, teaching and learning, effective student assessment, dealing with resistance to QA, preparing for institutional and programme accreditation. The designing and use of communication, documentation and data collection tools in QA for monitoring and evaluation of students and staff. In addition, the workshop aims to sensitize and bring awareness of what quality in HE is now all about and the current continental and regional activities related to QA and assist to develop QA knowledge and skills of Higher and Tertiary Education personnel since most of them do not have the professional qualifications.
Objectives of the workshop
- Bring
an awareness of the Pan African Quality Assurance and Accreditation Framework
(PAQAF) and the associated aspects including the Addis Convention, Agenda 2063,
Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA), African Quality Rating
Mechanism (AQRM), African Standards and Guidelines (ASG-QA), Tuning Africa, the
Pan-African University and the Harmonization of African Higher Education
Quality Assurance and Accreditation (HAQAA)
- Share
knowledge and information on the important endowments and characteristics of a
robust higher education QA system.
- Equip
participants with the background knowledge that informs good QA practices in
HE.
- Share
knowledge and skills of the diverse ways of assuring quality in institutions of
higher learning in order to expose to participants the importance of viable QA
systems.
- Make
known to participants the recommended new modes and models of QA for HE
institutions.
- Bring awareness of Quality Assurance and increase the
visibility of the Quality Assurance activities in African Higher Education.
- Foster cooperation with other Quality Assurance
Officers of higher education within the continent.
- Disseminate Quality Assurance endeavours and
benchmarks in African Higher education through all the possible means of
communication.
- Encourage the harmonization of African Higher
Education through the African Standards, Guidelines and Benchmarks as well as
the African Quality Rating Mechanism (AQRM) tool for institutional evaluations
for QA in HEIs.
- Train and sustain a pool of QA Officers in the region
for the multiplier effect of quality assurance in African Higher Education
Institutions.
Target Audience
- University lecturers
- Polytechnics lecturers
- College lecturers
- Departmental
Chairpersons
- Quality Assurance
personnel in Higher Education Institutions, Colleges and Polytechnics
- Registrars
- Deans
- Directors of Academic
and Academic support services
- Deputy Vice Chancellors
- Students in Higher &
Tertiary Education
- Any person who requires
capacity building in QA knowledge and skills
Workshop Date
9th – 12th April, 2018
Venue
Association of African Universities (AAU) Headquarters, Trinity Road,
East Legon, Accra, Ghana
Registration Fees and how to pay:
- Ghana
Nationals: US$250. 00 or the Equivalent in Ghana Cedis (No
Cheques)
- Other Nationals: AAU
Members US$300. 00 iii) Non-AAU Members $350. 00
Facilitators : Dr Violet Makuku (Quality Assurance Specialist & the HAQAA Initiative Project Officer at AAU) and other renowned experts in the area.
Registration Link : https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QA9ACC12APRL19GH
Important
Contacts:
i) Dr. Violet Makuku, Accra, Ghana: vmakuku@gmail.com or vmakuku@aau.org
WhatsApp Mobile No:
+233 263 129 798
Access the Concept note here for further details – CONCEPT NOTE
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