1. Launch of Quality Management System
KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY
Deanship of Quality Assurance and Academic Accreditation
PROF. PETER HODSON

2. QMS Introduction Vision
Leadership in community engagement through excellence in education, research, and leadership.
Mission
To serve the community with excellence in teaching and learning, relevant and respected research, lifelong learning opportunities, effective and efficient administration, leadership service and development, and community engagement for mutual enrichment.
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3. Quality is never an accident – it is always the result of intelligent effort.
- John Ruskin
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4. The Quality Assurance Questions
what are we trying to do?
why are we doing it?
how are we doing it?
why is that the best way to do it?
how do we know it works?
how can we improve it?
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5. QMS QMS Structure Structure of Academic Quality Committees
Program Standards and Quality
Planning, Design, Approval, Monitoring, Review
Regulations and Procedures
Research
Student Support and Affairs
Community Relations
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6. QMS Life Cycle of a Program PLANNING DEVELOPMENT REVIEW Withdrawal?
APPROVAL
Withdrawal?
REVIEW
MONITORING
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7. QMS
Explains the way in which KFU attempts to address the lifecycle.
Sections A, B and C are particularly relevant to program planning, design, approval, delivery, monitoring and review.
It is not optional!!!
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8. QMS NCAAA cycle Five yearly Review Yearly Environment Scan
Define/Review
Mission/Goals
Set
Objectives
Develop
Plan
Implement
Action
Five yearly
Review
Yearly
Performance
Monitor
Results
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9. QMS Program Planning Planning proposals considered by SC- SPC
Ideas generated from
Strategic Plan
Research
Advisory Committee
Subject Developments
Etc.
Use the planning form (QA1), provided in QMS
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10. QMS Program Development NCAAA Standard 4, paragraph 4.2:
Programs must be planned as coherent packages of learning experiences in which all courses contribute in planned ways to the intended learning outcomes for the program.
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11. QMS Program Development
Intended graduate
characteristics
Level characteristics
Identify goals
for the program
Translate level characteristics
into subject characteristics
Write intended learning outcomes
Design assessment strategy to
test achievement of ILOs
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Develop teaching strategy to enable learners to reach the ILOs/assessment criteria

12. The foundation of effective quality assurance
Program Approval
The foundation of effective quality assurance
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13. QMS Program Approval A crucial element in academic governance.
It is the means through which the University assures itself:
Of the standards of programs to be offered by the colleges.
That students will be provided with an educational and learning experience of high quality.
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14. Importance of Program Approval (1)
If carried out properly and attentively, program approval:
Verifies the academic standards for the program
Establishes safeguards for academic quality
Ensures that programs meet national and University requirements and therefore international expectations.
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15. Importance of Program Approval (2)
Get it right at the beginning and you save a lot of trouble later!
Leads to:
better experience for students
builds University and staff reputation and
NCAAA accreditation
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16. Program Approval Process
This evaluates whether each programs:
Complies with the University’s Academic Framework and Regulations.
Has been developed with due recognition to national academic infrastructure and includes reference to nationally and internationally agreed criteria and standards such as professional body experiences.
Has assured that it is aligned with the KFU Strategic Plan
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17. Committee Structure Program Approval
University Council
Standing Committee-
Study Plans and
Curricula
(SC-SPC)
College Study Plans
And Curriculum Committee
College Council
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Program
Approval
Panel
Program
Design Team
Departmental Council

18. Annual Monitoring
The process by which an annual review enables enhancements to be made to the provision
In the case of programs and courses, NCAAA templates provide the tools to enable that review
It is also provides evidence that ILOs and appropriate academic standards are being achieved, and considers external views such as advisory committee’s inputs
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19. QMS Annual Monitoring Identifies Minor/Major changes
Identifies good practice
Indentifies resource issues
Identifies learning, teaching and assessment issues
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20. Program Evaluation and Review - Whose responsibility?
MODEL OF UNIVERSITY
MANAGEMENT OF QUALITY
Program teams?
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Central Function?

21. QMS Guidance Essential reference documents are:
NCAAA Standards for Quality Assurance and Accreditation for Higher Education Institutions
The National Qualifications Framework (NQF)
QMS Handbook
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22. Periodic Review
The basis upon which ALL programs are updated to remain current, and reflect today’s world!
The basis upon which a substantive review can reflect upon the changing resources that are available
The basis upon which a detailed scrutiny at the range of inputs to the process is undertaken … especially external inputs!
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23. This requires…
systematic collection of feedback from students, which includes their views on the clarity of LOs and the extent to which they have been achieved
properly specified annual review processes, requiring reflection informed by evidence such as student feedback, assessment pass rates, changes in the professional environment, etc,
Resulting action plan and monitoring actions implemented
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24. And…
‘ownership’ of the program review by all staff involved in teaching
consideration of annual reports by Academic Affairs Quality Assurance Committee, with feedback Colleges and program teams on key points including coverage of ILOs.
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25. Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Moderation
Academic integrity
Plagiarism, cheating, falsification
Complaints and Appeals
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26. QMS Other sections of QMS Research Student Support and Affairs
Community Relations
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27. Thank you!!!
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