Various Projects

Only current projects and projects without an end date (programmes) are listed below. Projects are arranged according to project numbers, descending. The first two digits of the project number denote the year in which the process was initiated.

3.1              Quality Promotion projects  

Project No

Project name

Objective

0451

Quality Management System

To develop and refine a Quality Management System that would support 24/7 institutional readiness for audit

0651

Quality Policy

To refine the existing policy documents on external academic evaluation and reporting on the outcomes of  external evaluation and accreditation activities to the Executive in order to create a single Policy applicable to external evaluation of both academic units and support services

0652

Generic process for reviews (since changed to Generic process for external evaluation and accreditation visits)

To develop and implement a process for effective management of external evaluation and accreditation visits

0653

Policy on policies

To develop and implement a policy for the creation and management of institutional policies

0660

Office of the Registrar’s web presence

To design and maintain a functional web-presence  for the Office of the Registrar with links to a repository of institutional policy documents

0751

UP Glossary

To collect institutional terms and their definitions to enhance consistent use of such terms in the University

0753

Refinement of Review Policy

To refine the existing policy documents on academic reviews and reporting of reviews to the Executive in order to create a single Review Policy applicable to both academic and support service reviews

0754

Senate Committee for Continuing Education

To refine the process for approval of continuing education courses in consultation with relevant role players and CE at UP in response to oral feedback from the HEQC Audit Panel

0755

Service level agreements (SLAs)

To develop service level agreement principles and pro forma for services provided by the Quality Unit

0756

Audit Project Report

To develop an evaluative report on the Unit’s involvement with the HEQC Audit 2007 Project

0757

Ongoing update of institutional quality profile

To maintain the institutional quality profile information serving as a basis for external evaluation and accreditation visits with a view to 24/7 readiness for audit.

0759

Guidelines for Self-evaluation reports (for academic entities and support services not reporting to professional bodies)

To propose a format for the appearance of self-evaluation reports, design guidelines for self-evaluation reports to assist units to be evaluated and propose guidelines for identifying supporting documentation

0760

Register of institutional excellence

To develop and maintain a list of commendations/ achievements/ international accreditations/ acknowledgements/ registrations by external evaluation or accreditation panels to serve as input in international accreditation applications and surveys

0851

Student Quality Literacy Project

To raise awareness of quality as a concept, enhance student understanding of the University’s focus on quality, and engage students in Quality-related activities as appropriate