Departments

Quality Assurance

According to The European Commission, 2018: 2), “quality assurance involves the systematic review of educational programmes and processes to maintain and improve their quality, equity and efficiency.” Department of Quality Assurance Programmes (DQAP) is responsible for monitoring and enforcing compliances with quality standards in respect of all programmes of the Institute right from the conception, design, and implementation through to output production and outcomes. The key functions of the department include:

1. To lead the processes of setting up, adopting and implementing the Institute’s quality assurance policies, objectives, procedures, standards, specifications and benchmarks including monitoring and evaluation instruments across its programmes and services covering its inputs, processes and outcomes;
2. To work with relevant stakeholders to develop and deploy effective and efficient quality assurance framework and mechanism compliant to (a) above to enable the achievement of the Institute’s programme objectives, user satisfaction, school teaching and learning improvement goals and overall teacher professionalism;
3. To ensure that all programmes from design to implementation, monitoring and evaluation are subjected to the compliance requirements of meeting all existing relevant quality assurance provisions and proprieties of the Institute including stakeholder participation as much as is practicable and within available resources;
4. To develop reliable instruments for the continuous generation of quality assurance information as it relates to programme leadership, content and format; qualifications and performance of resource persons and consultants; the deployment of logistics including programme equipment and materials among others;
5. To periodically review the implementation of all programmes with a view to submitting a report to management with emphasis on identified quality assurance gaps with reasonable recommendations for filling the gaps as a means of institutionalizing continuous programme improvement by the Institute;
6. To periodically conduct in consultation with other key stakeholders and under management oversight the full review of existing quality assurance policies, objectives, standards, procedures, specifications and benchmarks with a view to consider their extant relevance, effectiveness and efficiency in meeting the dynamic goals and expectations of the Institute; and
7. To serve as the clearing house for all quality assurance complaints and the Institutional focal point for liaising and working with national international organizations and stakeholders operating in the practice field of quality assurance in the interest of the Institute and Niger State Basic and Secondary Education subsector.