Functions

AQEC is responsible for the following functions:

  • The review of academic affiliations with external Councils/accreditation bodies in terms of maintaining quality of programs.
  • To promote public confidence through overall quality of knowledge, award of degrees and management at the University.
  • To review quality by auditing academic standards and the quality of teaching, learning and management in each subject area.
  • The define clear and explicit standards as points of reference to the reviews to be carried out.
  • To develop qualifications framework by setting out the attributes and abilities that can be expected from the frame of a qualification, i.e. Bachelors of Science and Business Administration (BBA), Master (MBA), Masters of Science (MS) and Ph.D.
  • To develop program specifications with the set of standards of information, knowledge, understanding, skills and other attributes among the students for successfully completing a program.
  • To develop quality assurance processes and methods of evaluation to affirm that the quality of provision and the standard of received awards are being maintained, and to foster curriculum, subject and staff development, together with research and other scholarly activities.
  • To ensure that the university procedures are designed to fit in frame of the quality of Higher Education.