Functions & Activities

The Office of Institutional Quality Assessment and Effectiveness (IQAE/QEC)
IQAE/QEC have clear authority within the institution to develop, deliver and manage quality assurance policies and procedures. The offices is led by a Director who directly reports to the Rector. IQAE include staff aligned to each faculty or department, to help ensure effective and consistent operation across the institution. The IQAE will promote ways to engage students in quality assurance, including in the Office’s own operation. The role of the IQAE is crucial in enabling the university to develop an organizational quality culture oriented to enhancing the quality of its programs.

• Terms of reference for the Office
  • Promoting public confidence that the standard of academic awards is safeguarded and that quality is assured and enhanced.
  • Systematic internal review of academic standards and the quality of teaching and learning in each subject area.
  • Systematic review of academic affiliations and partnerships with other institutions to ensure effective management of standards and quality of programs.
  • Facilitating external review of programs and the institution.
  • Coordination and liaison with QAA-HEC for implementation of HEC’s guidelines related to quality assurance.
  • Coordination between accrediting departments and accreditation councils for timely accreditation of programs from respective councils.
  • Facilitating in establishment and functioning of IQAE sub-offices at campuses, constituent units and affiliated institutions.
  • Supervision of sub-offices of IQAE at campuses, constituent units and affiliated institutions.
  • Actively participating in meetings of all statutory bodies.
  • Capacity building of all internal stakeholders on QA-related activities.
  • Ensuring institutional alignment with the National Qualifications Framework of Pakistan at associate degree program, bachelor, master’s, and doctoral level.
  • Developing and enhancing quality assurance processes to affirm that the quality of provision and the standard of awards are being maintained.
  • Fostering curriculum, subject and faculty/staff development, together with research and other scholarly activities.
  • Developing and enhancing procedures for student partnership in quality assurance activities.
  • Ensuring that the institution’s quality assurance procedures are aligned with national arrangements for maintaining and improving the quality of higher education.
  • Developing, managing and enhancing procedures for the following:
    • Approval of new programs.
    • Annual monitoring and evaluation, including at program and faculty level, as well as of stakeholder evaluation.
    • Departmental review.
    • Student feedback.
    • Employer and alumni feedback.
    • Faculty feedback.
    • Employer participation in relevant quality assurance activities.
    • Program review and self-assessment.
    • Institutional review and self-assessment.
    • Regulatory frameworks for qualifications.