Organisation and responsibility for Course QA
BODIES AND INSTITUTIONAL FIGURES FOR THE QUALITY ASSURANCE OF THE BIOMEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES COURSE
COURSE PRESIDENT
In terms of quality assurance, the Course President:
1) monitors the demand for training, establishing the appropriate contacts with the main industry players in the area;
2) presents the Course Council with potential amendments to the degree course regulations to submit to the CPDS for approval and then to the Departmental Council;
3) supervises the drafting of the SUA-CdS, proposing to the Course Council any amendments to the SUA-CdS RaD frameworks to be submitted to the CPDS for approval and then to the Departmental Council;
4) is responsible for drafting the Annual Monitoring Form;
5) urges professors/instructors to update the course unit syllabi by the month of June, via the UGOV portal.
COURSE COUNCIL
The Course Council is made up of the official professors of the course units making up the degree course and the researchers carrying out supporting teaching activities, as well as student representatives (20%). It supervises the teaching activities and implements the relevant resolutions. Through its President:
1) it is responsible for the information in ANVUR documents: SUA-CdS, Annual Monitoring Form, Cyclic Review Report. The analysis and discussion of the Annual Monitoring Form, the verification of the contents of the Single Annual Course Report Card and the elaboration and sharing of the Cyclical Review Report are carried out in the context of the Course Council meetings;
2) it verifies and, if necessary, updates the Degree Course Regulations (https://cdl-tlb.unipr.it/study/regulations), and then presents them to the Departmental Council;
3) it defines and proposes to the Departmental Council the planned and delivered course catalogue (https://cdl-tlb.unipr.it/studiare/piano-degli-studi);
4) it verifies and, if necessary, updates aspects of the training process (the knowledge required for admission, the characteristics of the final examination, the way the final examination is carried out, and context-based services such as ongoing guidance and tutoring).
QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER (RAQ) The RAQ has the function of monitoring and verifying the correct implementation of the improvement actions approved by the Course Council, and his/her tasks are:
1) to monitor, with the help of the administrative staff of the Department's teaching area and/or service centres, the correct performance of teaching activities and support services;
2) to receive and arrange for the acceptance of any reports from students on critical issues concerning the correct performance of teaching activities;
3) to propose to the Course Council the programme of improvement actions;
4) to collaborate, within the QA Management Group, in the drafting of the Annual Monitoring Form and the Cyclical Review Report.
Finally, by 31 October of each academic year, he/she draws up a detailed and documented report on the activities carried out during the year and submits it to the Course President.
QA MANAGEMENT GROUP (REVIEW GROUP GdR)
This is made up of figures who are able to contribute to the evaluation of the course from different perspectives (professors/instructors, technical-administrative staff, students). It includes, among its members, the Course President, the RAQ, other professors/instructors whose number is at the discretion of the Course Council, a student representative (appointed by the student representatives elected on the Course Council) and a representative of the administrative staff of the Teaching Area (Teaching Quality Manager).
The QA Management Group has the task of guiding the course towards the goal of continually improving its results. Its work takes the form of the compilation of the Annual Monitoring Form and the drafting of the Cyclic Review Report, at various meetings where critical issues are discussed, drafts are finalised and the final text is approved for subsequent evaluation by the Course Council.
In the course of the self-evaluation process, it examines the results of teaching activities and the progress of students' careers, student opinion survey questionnaires, the annual report provided by the Joint Professor/Instructor and Student Committee and the Evaluation Committee Report.
EDUCATION QUALITY MANAGER
The tasks of the Education Quality Manager are to:
- provide administrative support for everything concerning the organisation and operation of the degree course, in coordination with the Quality Assurance Office Manager;
- update the data for which he/she is responsible on the course website in collaboration with the relevant structures;
- assist the Quality Assurance Office in defining the timetable of training activities, presented on the portal http://agendastudenti.unipr.it/.
