Responsibilities
- To promote quality enhancement activities within the Faculty liaising with Curriculum & Academic Committee and other institutional committees and Boards of studies.
- To liaise with the Center for Quality Assurance (CQA) of the University of Colombo, in facilitating the conduct of Institutional Reviews and programme Reviews in the Institute and other activities as requested by the Quality Assurance Council (QAC) of the UGC.
- To prepare and make available in a suitable mode, all documents necessary for institutional and programme reviews
- To facilitate implementation of follow-up actions recommended in Institution/ Programme/ Review reports, and monitor progress in their implementation
- To liaise with IQACs of other Faculties/Institutes/ Campus within the University of Colombo, to share good practices with a view to overall improvement of the quality of programmes of the university and enhance the quality of higher education in Sri Lanka.
- To collate, analyse and develop reports and disseminate through appropriate means and fora, QA data such as peer review forms and student feedback forms.
- To devise and suggest additional QA measures or changes to the existing measures, based on the data collected on various QA indicators such as peer feedback student evaluation reports and external reviews.
- To support the Faculty/Institute/Campus in quality assurance of online and blended teaching and learning modes and to monitor and report progress at regular intervals at relevant committees
- Liaise with the Director, Center for Quality Assurance (CQA) of the University to coordinate university level Quality Assurance (QA) activities.
- Represent the Institute in all QA related activities.
- Organize Institute level QA meetings.
- Nominate to the Director the names of the members to be appointed as domain coordinators or members for each criterion as given manuals on quality assurance of the UGC.
- Provide guidance to the domain coordinators and prepare the Institute level Internal QA Report with their support.
- Liaise with professional quality assurance and accreditation bodies on matters pertaining to QA and accreditation, if required.
- Monitor the collation and analysis of Institute level internal QA data such as peer review forms and student feedback forms.
- Work with other related committees and units within the Institute on matters related to QA.
- Answer and address issues related to QA raised by the Faculty members in general and by the QA domain coordinators in particular.
- Report the activities of the Institute QA Cell to the Board of Management and CQA regularly.