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Quality Enhancement Project: The Process. Focus of the Quality Enhancement Project (QEP). STUDENT SUCCESS, operationally defined as: Enhanced student learning with a view to increasing the number of graduates with attributes that are personally, professionally and socially valuable.
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Focus of the Quality Enhancement Project (QEP) • STUDENT SUCCESS, operationally defined as: • Enhanced student learning with a view to increasing the number of graduates with attributes that are personally, professionally and socially valuable.
Goals of the QEP • Improving the quality of undergraduate educational provision; • Improving the number of quality graduates; • Developing a higher education system that is improving continuously as members of the higher education community collaborate to share good practices and solve shared problems.
Both institutionally-based activities and centrally coordinated HE system enhancement Institutional enhancement
QE reps CHE DVCs Role players HEIs PROF BODIES SAAIR HELTASA HESA
Process Select focus areas Institutional submissions Analysis Individual Institutional feedback Symposia, working groups Feedback Collaboration Projects of other bodies Analysis Research projects Feedback Institutional capacity development Institutional reports
PHASE 1 and PHASE 2 Select focus areas Institutional submissions Analysis Collaborative group meetings Analysis Institutional reports Analysis Institutional feedback Spin-off activities Institutional QE Committee QE Forum DVCs meetings
QEP Activities in 2013 • Feb- DVCs meeting, 3 QA forums • Mar and Apr- advisory committee meetings • May and June- four focus group meetings with 8 HEIs • Aug- 3 regional symposia with Vincent Tinto (820 people) • Sept and Oct- revise draft framework, get HEQC approval • Nov- DVCs meeting • Dec- submit draft framework to CHE Council
Focus areas for Phase 1 • Enhancing university teachers • Including professional development, reward and recognition, workload, conditions of service and performance appraisal. • Enhancing student support and development • Including career and curriculum advising, life and academic skills development, counselling, student performance monitoring and referral. • Enhancing the learning environment • Including teaching and learning spaces, ICT infrastructure and access, technology-enabled tools and resources, library facilities. • Enhancing course and programme enrolment management • Including admissions, selection, placement, readmission refusal, pass rates in gateway courses, throughput rates, management information systems.