Planning and Quality Assurance is located in the Portfolio of the Vice Principal: Institutional Development and Transformation, and carries responsibility for institutional quality assurance. Leading edge quality assurance is considered crucial to enable Unisa to aspire to and maintain Unisa's position as a world class university.
The Quality Assurance & Promotion Directorate has been established to enable the University to fulfill its quality assurance obligations vis-Ã -vis the external quality assurance agencies in South Africa, the Higher Education Quality Committee [HEQC] of the Council for Higher Education and the South African Qualifications Authority [SAQA].
These obligations comprise:
The Department collaborates with similar departments in other institutions in the region, nationally and internationally to:
The three-year planning cycle and the annual iteration of the operational plan, continues to be the main instrument through which the university's strategy is implemented. To ensure that consistency and alignment in planning pervades the institution at all levels, the Integrated Planning Framework (IPF) was developed. The purpose of the framework is to achieve optimal planning coherence. The implementation of this framework will be driven in earnest from 2010 by the DSPQA. Against this background, the Directorate: Planning has the obligation to perform the following functions:
List of functions
Executive Director
Ms Liana Griesel
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