Educational quality management system

These Regulations were drawn up in accordance with clause 6.3 of Minutes No. 2 of the meeting of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of 10 February 2023 and Order No. 72 of the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of 27 March 2023 “On improving the work of education quality control departments in state higher education institutions”. They set out the status, main aim, tasks, rights and duties, and working procedures of the Education Quality Control Department of Gulistan State Pedagogical Institute.

Aim

The department’s main aim is to review and analyse whether students’ knowledge meets state educational standards, monitor the quality of training, organise the institute’s internal review, identify factors that undermine the quality of education, and take measures to eliminate and prevent them.

About the department

The department is guided by the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Law “On Education”, resolutions of the chambers of the Oliy Majlis, decrees, resolutions and orders of the President, resolutions and orders of the Cabinet of Ministers, orders and lawful instructions of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the Rector, and its own Regulations.

The department reports directly to the Rector; vice-rectors, deans and heads of other units may not interfere in its work.

Main tasks

• monitoring and overseeing the quality of training at the institute;
• reviewing and analysing whether students’ knowledge meets state standards and how well they master their courses;
• building academic staff capable of ensuring quality, including objective and transparent mechanisms for selecting, hiring and developing lecturers;
• regularly analysing the quality of teaching;
• organising the institute’s internal review and addressing the shortcomings it identifies;
• reviewing whether teaching is organised in line with regulations and how effectively the HEMIS system is used (timely and complete data entry, proper operation of the credit-module system);
• analysing whether qualification requirements, curricula and syllabuses match professional standards and labour-market needs;
• preparing detailed findings on graduates’ position in the labour market, demand for them and the outlook for each field;
• reviewing whether classes use modern teaching and information technologies and whether lesson quality is properly monitored;
• reviewing the involvement of qualified practitioners in teaching;
• assessing measures that ensure transparent and objective testing and grading;
• reviewing lecturers’ professional development and whether syllabuses reflect recent advances in their fields;
• analysing whether teaching loads are distributed fairly;
• reviewing conditions for students and staff at the Information Resource Centre and the availability of textbooks, and making recommendations to management;
• reviewing and analysing how independent study is organised (guidelines, requirements and student workload);
• introducing anti-plagiarism software, academic integrity principles and systematic measures against cheating;
• taking part, at the Ministry’s request, in reviews of other higher education institutions;
• providing methodological support on quality control to deans, heads of departments and heads of units.

The department reports directly to the Ministry’s Department for the Organisation of Educational Institutions, Licensing and Quality Assurance.