Quality Assurance

Philadelphia University
Deanship of Development and Quality

QA Workshops

لاهداف الاستراتيجية والاجراءات

التقييم الذاتي للوحدة الأكاديمية

تنفيذ مهمات الخطة الاستراتيجية لجامعة فيلادلفيا (2012-2017)

دراسة التقييم الذاتي لجامعة فيلادلفيا

الاطار العام للاعتماد

QA Achievements and Rewards

اشتركت الجامعة في العديد من الفعاليات وصلت بناء على ذلك على عدة جوائز ، إذ حصلت الجامعة على الجائزة الأولى لصندوق الحسين للإبداع والتفوق في تخصص تكنولوجيا المعلومات وحدد هذا التقييم المئة جامعة الأولى في العالم العربي عام 2003.هذا بالإضافة إلى تأكيد لجنة ضمان الجودة والنوعية البريطانية على أن كلية تكنولوجيا المعلومات لا تزال متقدمة في هذا المجال. وما هو أكثر من ذلك, حصلت الجامعة على الجائزة الأولى لصندوق الحسين للإبداع والتفوق في الحقوق عام 2006. وكان كلٌ من قسمي العلوم المالية والمصرفية واللغة الإنجليزية قد حصلا على شهادات تقدير من صندوق الحسين للإبداع والتفوق للمشاركة الفعالة في مشاريع الصندوق التقييمية والاهتمام المستمر بتطوير أداء الجامعة في العام 2008. وكان ذلك ضمن مشروع لضمان جودة البرامج الأكاديمية في الجامعات الأردنية ، نفذه الصندوق لتقييم جودة البرامج الجامعية الأردنية حسب معايير قياس عالمية، إذ نظم الصندوق مراجعات لعدد كبير من البرامج الجامعية خلال الفترة من2001-2009، بالتعاون مع خبراء ومؤسسات دولية في مجال جودة التعليم العالي لعدة جامعات أردنية حكومية وخاصة. ويبين الجدول التالي العديد من الجوائز التي حصلت عليها الجامعة خلال الأعوام من 2003 -2011:

 

Quality Assurance Committees

The Faculty Quality Assurance Committee

 Philadelphia University is committed to quality assurance and continuous development at the levels of the University, and academic and the administrative units. This is accomplished through various on-going evaluation processes and the remedial actions taken to make improvements. The University emphasis on quality takes into consideration its vision and mission as well as the vision and mission of all academic units in all processes and activities. The Accreditation and Quality Assurance Office, AQAO, has been entrusted with the tasks of managing the review as well as the self-evaluation studies in all academic and administrative units at the University to support the University in order to enhance its processes. Therefore, the AQAO works as a source of information and data relating to the University’s activities; It collects information from the various University units, analyze them, and pass them to the higher administration to assist in the decision-making processes.

The AQAO Office also facilities the Higher Education Accreditation Commission in its follow up for the institutional and program accreditation at Philadelphia University. In addition, the Office works as a liaison with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Higher Education Accreditation Commission to ensure that the University applies quality standards which are specified by them.

The Office’s activities are chaired by the Director of Accreditation and Quality Assurance at the University who reports directly to the University President.

The Coordinator of the Accreditation and Quality Assurance Office and the Secretary of the office follow up the daily activities and duties of the office.

Office activities are also managed by the University Accreditation and Quality Assurance Committee which is chaired by the University President. The committee also supports the Director of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in carrying out his duties. The Office also receives assistance from quality assurance committees in the University departments and faculties. These committees follow up the weekly agenda of academic activities pertinent to their unites, document them, and pass them to the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the AQAO. The documents may include: studies, evaluation processes, syllabi for course materials ….etc. and they are preserved for the self-evaluation purposes. In addition, the Office collects statistics related to the numbers of enrolled students and faculty members from the Various University faculties. The Office carries out the necessary analysis to inspect the adherence of the University academic programs to the HEAC regulations. Then, the Office submits that to the University’s higher administration, faculties and departments and asks them for taking the corrective measures in case of irregularity. The Office is provided with the remarks of the Ministry of Higher Education and the Higher Education Accreditation Commission and it discusses them with the University Administration as well as relevant units to conduct the required improvements and handle any shortage that appears as a result of the evaluation process.

 Quality assurance of the University processes is conducted through several active councils and committees at the level of the University such as Plan and Quality Committee which is chaired by the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Recruitment and Promotion Committee, Scholarships Committee, Non-Academic Staff Appointment Committee, and General and Special Accreditation Committee. In addition, there are many councils that monitor quality assurance of the University processes such as the Council of Deans, the Council of Academic Research, the Council of Graduate Studies, and the Council of Academic Training and Development Center.

The Deanship of Accreditation and Quality Assurance conducts SWOT for all University processes through special questionnaires prepared for this purpose to survey opinions of the faculty members, students, graduating students, alumni and employers, and it carries out the analysis for questionnaires. In an attempt to develop its educational programs and enhance its Learning outcomes, Philadelphia University submitted a self- evaluation study to the Higher Education Accreditation Commission in June 2011 as a pre-requisite for applying for Quality Assurance Certificate.