Teaching quality | Food science and technology

Quality Assurance is an indispensable process that involves all those who work in the University, in which each individual's progress benefits the entire University and stimulates a fruitful confrontation to which it is necessary to aspire in order to make the social role played by the University effective and concrete. QUALITY ASSURANCE means: defining quality policies in harmony and synergy with the University's strategic guidelines and reliable and robust procedures through which the governing bodies can implement them; implementing activities to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of all the University's internal processes, first and foremost in the service of the quality of education and research; creating awareness in all those who work in the University so that everyone's tasks are carried out competently and promptly, the services provided are effective, and a record is kept of what has been done to monitor and measure results.
For more information on Quality Assurance, please visit this page: https://www.unipr.it/AQ

Organisation and responsibility for Course QA

Attached is the document "Quality Assurance Management System of the Study Courses pertaining to the Department of Food and Drug" (Approved by the Department Council at its meeting on 9.04.2018)

Student Opinion Survey Questionnaire (OPIS)

The student opinion survey questionnaire (OPIS) is a tool designed to detect student opinion with a view to improving teaching, quality and the organisation of study courses and is an integral part of the evaluation system. For students, it is an important opportunity to make their voice heard and actively participate in the life of their course of study, as a guarantee of better Quality Assurance: this is why the University recommends that it be filled in punctually and accurately.
More information on the OPIS questionnaires can be found on the following page: https://www.unipr.it/didattica/i-corsi-di-studio/compilazione-del-questionario-di-valutazione-della-didattica-line

Work scheduling and implementation deadlines for initiatives

Course quality assurance consists in the implementation of the QA model proposed and coordinated by the University Quality Assurance Committee and in the planning and implementation of corrective actions, the effectiveness of which is assessed annually by analysing indicator trends in the Annual Monitoring Form SMA and, in depth, periodically in the cyclical review report.
Corrective actions under the control of the department and/or the course of study are planned in accordance with the organisational and management arrangements set out in the course's quality assurance plan and are coordinated and monitored by the Quality Assurance Manager (RAQ).
The Course of Study appoints an internal Review Group (RG) whose activities are organised as follows:
- annually drafts the SUA-CdS for the following academic year; - periodically verifies the status of implementation of the improvement measures proposed in the Cyclical Review Report and assesses the overall progress of students' careers, based on the data provided by ANVUR.
The general planning of QA activities leads to daily contact with student representatives, tutors, teaching staff and staff in the Academic office and central offices. In correspondence with deadlines for documents or fulfilments (review, SUA form, beginning and end of semesters, examination and graduation sessions), activities intensify and take the form of drafting texts or collecting information.
The ways and timescales in which the responsibilities of Course management are exercised are set out in the document "Quality Assurance Management System of the Courses of Study related to the Department of Food and Drug"