Quality Promotion
At Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, the responsibility for the quality of teaching and learning lies with the faculties and academic departments. IRPQP plays a central coordinating role for quality promotion.
One of the strategic objectives of the Institution’s Institutional Development Plan (IDP) at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 is Quality Promotion. Its brief is to “ensure accreditation and recognition of all academic offerings/programmes of Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 by respective national, professional and international authorities”.
The following quality promotion activities are coordinated by IRPQP under this objective:
- preparing the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 for national and international audits
- programme accreditation with respect to requirements of DHET, CHE, SAQA as well as professional associations
- review academic entities and programmes as well as support services
- providing support for development of proposals for new programmes/qualifications
- management of processes for internal accreditation of short courses
- facilitating policy development/update and maintenance of institutional policy database (online)
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View Institutional Planning and Review Framework
Glossary of Terms
New Programmes – The need for new programmes is identified in Faculties, followed by internal approval by the relevant structures, and external approval by the DHET, CHE, and SAQA.
Qualification/Programme Reviews - IRPQP supports the mandate of the Academic Programmes and Curriculum Quality Committee (APCQC) by gathering and centralization of data/evidence about reviews and the quality of qualifications/programmes for purposes of internal and external institutional audits. Academic departments carry out reviews for courses/modules and academic programmes with IRPQP and 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. How does this review process work at Rhodes?
Academic Programmes and Curriculum Quality Committee – Provide oversight of curriculum aspects in the internal processes for accreditation of new programmes/qualifications and review existing qualifications/programmes.
Institutional audits – The CHE conducts cyclic institutional audits on higher education institutions when the need arises. The institutional audits aim to facilitate quality promotion in institutions.
Review Framework – The Institutional Planning and Review Framework document aims to provide a conceptual framework for planning and review at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. It is intended to describe the institution's approach to accountability, improvement and resource allocation and align internal processes with the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网's overall vision and goals.
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