Area | Aims | Objectives | Action | Measuring Outcome |
Quality in Education | Evaluation of GAU’s activities in education, research and social responsibilities; involvement of related mechanisms, culture, internal and external stakeholders for continuous quality improvement; maintaining quality in education in the frame of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. | Activities to enhance continuous quality improvement. | Transforming GAU’s Accreditation office to Quality Assurance and Accreditation Office. | Restructuring the QA and Accreditation Office (recruiting a new staff). |
Formation of GAU’s Quality Assurance Commission. | QA Commission to meet at least 3 times during 10.2.2019-25.3.2019. | |||
Developing GAU QA Commission’s Policies and Regulations. | Submitting QA Commission’s Policies and Regulations to QA Commission. | |||
Starting the process of Internal Self Evaluation. | Preparing the Internal Self Evaluation Report. | Submitting the Internal Self Evaluation Report to the Senate. | ||
Preparing Internal Self Evaluation Report for YÖK. | Submitting the Internal Self Evaluation Report to YÖK by 25 March 2019. | |||
Publishing the Internal Self Evaluation Report for YÖK. | Announcing the Internal Self Evaluation Report on GAU web site by 1 April 2019. | |||
Preparing SWOT analysis during a conference. | Holding a conference with 30 participants to prepare SWOT analysis for Quality Assurance. | |||
Adopting an international Excellence Model in Quality Assurance. | A report of adoptability of the Excellence Model to GAU’s vision, mission and weaknesses. | |||
To plan and implement activities to develop a QA culture within GAU. | Planning and implementing internal training activities and leadership development programs related with the QA Excellence Model. | Providing a licensed training about the Excellence Model to at least 10 selected staff. Providing an informative training to at least 50 staff. Participating to at least 3 academic conferences about Quality Assurance. | ||
Identifying the Institutional Maturity Index and preparing a road map. | Organizing a workshop to identify the Institutional Maturity Index in respect to the QA Excellence Model. | Participation of at least 30 GAU staff to the workshop; for identifying the Institutional Maturity Index in respect to the QA Excellence Model. | ||
Suggesting a road map for the institution’s development in excellence according to its maturity index. | Matching the road map with external evaluation. | |||
Setting up the institution’s internal and external QA system. | Preparing GAU’s QA Strategic Plan according to the QA Excellence Model. | GAU’s quality policy in line with its mission, vision and strategic objectives and definition of key performance indicators and objectives. | ||
Preparing GAU’s QA Handbook according to the QA Excellence Model. | Submitting GAU Quality Assurance Handbook to the Senate. QA Handbook, according to the QA Excellence Model will cover:
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Accreditation | To enhance GAU’s performance in accreditation. | To improve GAU’s accreditation process. | Preparing GAU’s SWOT analysis for accreditation. | SWOT analysis for accreditation. |
Preparing action plan for accreditation. | Accreditation action plan. | |||
To increase the number of accredited academic programmes of GAU. | To identify GAU academic programmes eligible for accreditation. | The list of GAU academic programmes eligible for accreditation. | ||
To prepare a road map with the related faculties for the academic programmes eligible for accreditation. | A road map for at least an academic programme for accreditation. | |||
Making new accreditation applications. | Making new accreditation applications for at least an academic programme. |