Quality Assurance

The topic of quality assurance has become one of the central topics in the context of recent educational reforms, and the concept of quality has become one of the most fashionable concepts in contemporary educational terminology. However, the understanding of quality and the possible ways and means of assuring quality in education varies from one place to another. One could name different structures and institutions in the system of education which are supposed to assure quality. Quality Assurance comprises all the planned and systematic actions e.g. the policies, strategies, procedures, activities…etc which provide the necessary adequate confidence that quality is being maintained and enhanced and the products and services meet the specified quality standards. In higher education, quality assurance is the totality of systems, resources and information devoted to maintain and improve the quality and standards of teaching staff, administration staff, teaching methods, scholarship and research as well as students' learning experience.