About the Department:
The Department of Quality Assurance and University Accreditation was established in 2023. Under the University's structure, it is administratively linked to the President of the University. It consists of three administrative divisions, in addition to other divisions based in the University's colleges, named (Quality Assurance and Performance Evaluation Division), which are linked to this Department.
Vision:
The Department of Quality Assurance seeks to organise activities that represent a gateway of openness towards scientific rigour, excellence and creativity worldwide.
Mission:
Adopting quality standards and continuous improvement to achieve academic accreditation.
Objectives:
1- Strengthening society's confidence in the competence of our University's graduates.
2- Adopting international standards in the field of academic accreditation to ensure and improve the quality of education.
3- Developing human resources and strengthening their capabilities to support the administrative levels of the University.
4- Adopting community participation in achieving excellence and creativity.
5- Developing resources by promoting and applying the concepts of the productive university.
Tasks of the Department:
The Department of Quality Assurance and Academic Accreditation in Iraqi universities has become of great importance in preparing, supporting and evaluating, and in providing the means to raise the scientific rigour of the university. The Department and its divisions are therefore responsible for many tasks, including:
1. Providing appropriate means to spread a culture of quality in the University and disseminating it to all colleges, centres and departments through the quality assurance divisions in the colleges.
2. Establishing a library and index to collect information and data on the quality and accreditation systems of regional and international educational institutions.
3. Setting clear measures for evaluating and improving the performance of faculty members and employees at the University of Shatrah in line with the University Service Law.
4. Working to build an integrated system for evaluating and improving the performance of administrative staff in all relevant respects, to be activated by the University's departments and affiliated formations.
5. Working to build an integrated system of continuous self-evaluation for all the University's work and operations.
6. Implementing appropriate training programmes, according to the needs of the actual application of the approved quality programmes, for the staff working in the Department or its affiliated units inside the country, and proposing the programmes required by the implementation process outside the country.
7. Providing support to the colleges, institutes and centres in selecting and adopting the standards that will be approved as a starting point towards academic accreditation.
8. Developing a plan to implement the quality programme in the affiliated colleges, institutes and centres through the links between the Department at the University headquarters and the affiliated units in the colleges, centres and institutes, based on predefined quality objectives.
9. Compiling detailed data and statistics on the University's colleges, institutes, centres and departments so that they can be used in writing reports on quality and accreditation.
10. Following up the implementation of the approved system through audit visits and periodic evaluation of sites, and following up the effectiveness of their performance.
11. Following up the extent to which the University's colleges, institutes, centres and departments comply with quality standards, and submitting reports to the University Council.
12. Ensuring that educational programmes and processes are carried out in accordance with the legal requirements, regulations and instructions for the relevant degree or licence at the University, and disseminating them to all colleges, centres and departments through the quality assurance divisions in the colleges.
Tasks of the Divisions of the Department of Quality Assurance:
The tasks of the three administrative divisions are summarised as follows: -
Quality Assurance Division:
1) Spreading a culture of quality assurance and academic accreditation in the University and its affiliated institutions.
2) Coordinating with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research regarding developments in quality assurance and academic accreditation.
3) Applying and following up institutional and programmatic accreditation in the University and its formations.
4) Preparing periodic reports on the implementation of institutional and programmatic accreditation.
5) Preparing periodic reports on improvement and continuous improvement.
6) Following up developments in quality assurance and academic accreditation.
7) Approaching organisations and companies concerned with the training, development and accreditation of international academic programmes.
8) Opening up to local, Arab and international institutions in the fields of quality assurance and academic accreditation.
9) Ensuring participation in the various internal and external activities held by the University.
10) Documenting the institutional and programmatic accreditation standards of the University and its formations.
Performance Evaluation Division:
1) Evaluating performance in the University's departments and colleges and doing what is necessary to determine the level and quality of performance.
2) Establishing a database of all activities of the University and its formations and following up the development of the educational process in them.
3) Providing assistance, advice and counsel to all the quality assurance and performance evaluation divisions in the University's colleges and formations in the field of programmes for raising their level of performance.
4) Working on the electronic performance evaluation of all the University's formations and submitting the necessary reports on it.
5) Following up field evaluation results in relation to labour market needs and submitting the necessary recommendations to the President of the University and informing the Ministry.
6) Preparing final reports on the annual performance of the employees of the University and its formations.
7) Preparing periodic reports on the activity of the Division and its annual achievement rates and submitting them to the Director of the Department of Quality Assurance and University Performance.
8) Any other tasks assigned to the Division by the Department of Quality Assurance and University Performance to support the university performance evaluation process.
Laboratory Accreditation Division:
1) Monitoring and auditing laboratory specifications against the requirements of the approved standard specifications.
2) Determining the technical specifications of devices and equipment, coding them and documenting their data, in coordination by the laboratory officials with laboratories in the University and in other universities.
3) Following up the implementation of calibration programmes for devices and equipment with the relevant bodies.
4) Coordinating the opening of scheduled courses to train laboratory staff according to their specialisations, in line with the international specification and national standards.
5) Coordinating with the Laboratory Accreditation Department of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Supervision and Scientific Evaluation Apparatus, to develop and improve laboratory performance in order to achieve laboratory accreditation by one of the competent and relevant bodies.
6) Working to activate the procedures and requirements specified by the laboratory accreditation team in the field.
Name of the Director of the Department:
Asst. Prof. Dr. Hadi Thamer Obaid
Names of the Staff:
Heads of Divisions:
1- Asst. Lect. Haider Flaih Hassan / Laboratory Accreditation Division.
2- Lecturer Zainab Mohammed Hussein / University Performance Evaluation Division.
3_ Lecturer Hawraa Radhi Kareem / Quality Assurance Division.
Employees:
1- Maha Nasser Hussein.
2- Ghadeer Shaker Hadi.
Official Email of the Department:
EMAIL: Quality_dep@shu.edu.iq