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Quality Assurance and Accreditation

Quality Assurance and Accreditation

WSDC will empower you to develop and implement quality assurance systems and integrate them into the management processes at your organization. You will learn how to conduct quality assurance audits to ensure that products and services meet the specified requirements, increase your organization’s credibility, and build trust with customers.

Principles

Quality assurance in higher education includes all policies, measures, planned processes and actions through which the quality of higher education is maintained and developed.

What you’ll learn

    • Fit for purpose
    • Right first time

Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks


Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h

Subject: Quality Assurance

Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Platforms: Physical/Online

Topic(s): N/A
Internal Audit

In higher education, internal audit is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to make sure that organization’s risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively.

What you’ll learn

    • Corporate governance, auditing and strategic management
    • Risk management
    • Administrative and ethical aspects
    • Planning the assignment
    • Performing audit procedures
    • Completion, reporting, and audit findings
    • Monitoring mechanisms of organizations

Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks


Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h

Subject: Quality Assurance

Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Platforms: Physical/Online

Topic(s): N/A
SWOT Analysis

SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique used to help a person or organization identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to business competition or project planning.

What you’ll learn

    • SWOT overview and definition
    • Environmental scans
    • Mechanisms of SWOT
    • Preparing for SWOT
    • Application and analysis

Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks


Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h

Subject: Quality Assurance

Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Platforms: Physical/Online

Topic(s): N/A
Accreditation Standards

Accreditation is the process of granting credit or recognition to a higher education institution that adheres to standards set by the accrediting body for the purpose of quality assurance.

What you’ll learn

    • Mission, Academic Quality and Institutional Effectiveness, and Integrity
    • Student Learning Programs and Support Services
    • Resources
    • Leadership and Governance

Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks


Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h

Subject: Quality Assurance

Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Platforms: Physical/Online

Topic(s): N/A
Strategic Planning

It is the art of elaborating particular business strategies, implementing them, and evaluating their results according to the long-term goals or desires of an institution.

What you’ll learn

    • Definition and relevance
    • State analysis and mission, vision and values clarification
    • Environment analysis, priorities and risks
    • Designing tactics and prioritizing resources
    • Plan documentation and communication
    • Plan revision and update

Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks


Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h

Subject: Quality Assurance

Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Platforms: Physical/Online

Topic(s): N/A
Best Practices

Best practices in quality assurance are managerial procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective.

What you’ll learn

    • Best practices in teaching
    • Best practices in research
    • SDGs implications

Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks


Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h

Subject: Quality Assurance

Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Platforms: Physical/Online

Topic(s): N/A