Introduction
The Institutional Research and Quality Measurement Unit reports to His Excellency the CEO of the College. It is concerned with establishing and strengthening best quality practices and their application across the College, through the following objectives:
Ensuring competitive performance in education and research.
Achieving sustainable development of faculty members' capabilities in the quality of education and scientific research.
Supporting decision-making to ensure the continuous development of improvement opportunities.
Ensuring competitive performance in education and research.
Excellence in performance.
The Institutional Research and Quality Measurement Unit also carries out the following tasks:
Promoting a culture of quality and excellence in order to apply quality standards in education.
Supporting the evaluation process and timely provision of the information required on the performance of the academic departments and the scientific, administrative and service units of the College, in order to achieve effectiveness and continuous improvement, and promoting the use of SWOT analysis to guide performance.
Contributing to the design of planning templates for departments and units, questionnaires, and general evaluation tables, in coordination with their heads; guiding those responsible for applying these templates on how to use them; and organizing College-wide seminars to raise awareness of the concepts of education effectiveness and quality, and of the mechanism for raising the efficiency of each program or administrative or service unit.
Collecting and analyzing data and issuing statistics to measure and evaluate performance levels in academic programs and scientific, administrative and service units; documenting and publishing information, results and indicators on an ongoing basis within the approved strategic plan, to be taken into account when developing or amending plans.
Contributing to the identification of the assessment tools used to measure learning outcomes, giving a prominent role in this process to the student's perspective, through student surveys and analysis of periodic test results, as well as the opinions of graduates and prospective graduates and the evaluations of employers.
Conducting comparative studies that measure the College's overall performance against the performance levels of similar institutions within the country and abroad, and benefiting from their experience as far as possible.