Teaching quality

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/en/AQ

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-quest…

Organisation and responsibility for Course QA

Quality Assurance of Study Courses (CdS) is a constituent element of the management, monitoring and measurement of the dynamics governing teaching, knowledge and know-how.
Study courses, in particular, are at the heart of the educational mission of higher education institutions. They are designed through the design of one or more output figures, defined through the identification of their scientific, cultural and/or professional characteristics and, consistently, of the training paths leading to the acquisition of the specific knowledge and skills associated with the output profiles.
Course design must involve students and external stakeholders most appropriate to the character and objectives of the course. The external stakeholders of the study course include all the actors and organisations and institutions potentially interested in the cultural and professional profile of the graduates designed by the study course (organisations representing the production of goods and services, the professions and/or - if considered relevant to the project - scientific societies, research centres, academic and cultural institutions of national or international relevance, etc.). Where functional for the proposed project, stakeholders may be represented by a Steering Committee, consisting of a representation of the Department's faculty and representatives from the world of work, culture and research representing the stakeholders of one or more study courses.
Documentation relating to the Department's QA objectives and the annual report on QPD activities is accessible on the following web pages: 

Course of Study - Review Group - Quality Assurance Manager

For the purposes of Quality Assurance, each student body is required to apply, to the extent of its competence, the policies and general guidelines for Quality established by the Governing Bodies;

  • carry out self-assessment and review activities of its own training pathway and of the management of the CdS according to the analyses reported in the annual report of the Joint Committee of Teachers and Students (CPDS) and of the data provided by ANVUR, the Evaluation Committee and the Management Control division, also comparing itself with similar Committees with a view to benchmarking;
  • to promote continuous improvement and assess its effectiveness;
  • to implement the evaluation of teaching in accordance with the University's arrangements.

The Course Council, through its President, is also responsible for the information reported in the ANVUR documents (SUA-CdS, Annual Monitoring Form, Cyclic Review Report).
To this end, each school establishes a Review Group (RG) composed of figures from within the school itself who are able to contribute to the evaluation of the course from various points of view (teaching staff, technical-administrative staff, students). 
During the self-evaluation process, the Review Group takes into consideration anything that can contribut to the analysis of the degree course results, in particular: 

  • the annual report copiled by the related Joint Committee of Teachers and Students;
  • the Evaluation Committee report;
  • the progress of students' careers;
  • the availability of specific services (tutoring, internationalisation, guidance, internships, etc.);
  • consultation with the socio-economic system of reference (including the Steering Committee, sector studies, specific meetings with the social partners);
  • the availability of resources (human and infrastructural); student opinion on teaching, the organisation of the degree course and the training pathway;
  • any other report provided by the RAQ, the Education Manager and the Coordinator/Director of the teaching quality service.

The work of the Review Group (RG) takes the form of the compilation of an Annual Monitoring Form and the drafting of the Cyclic Review Report, which is discussed within the Council of the relevant CdS and forwarded to the University Quality Assurance Committee (PQA) and the University Evaluation Committee.

Finally, the Quality Assurance Manager (RAQ) has the function of monitoring and verifying the correct implementation of the improvement actions approved by the Course Council. The RAQ is identified from among the Professors of the CdS.

Course Organisation, RG and RAQ

Work scheduling and implementation deadlines for initiatives

The quality assurance of the CdS consists in the implementation of the QA model proposed and coordinated by the Quality Assurance Committee and in the planning and implementation of corrective actions, the effectiveness of which is assessed annually through the analysis of indicator trends in the Annual Monitoring Form and, in depth, periodically in the Cyclic Review Report.
Corrective actions under the control of the Department and/or the CoS are planned according to the organisational and management modalities of the Department and/or the CoS and are coordinated and monitored by the Quality Assurance Manager (RAQ).


The CdS appoints an internal review group (review panel) whose activities are organised as follows:
- annually drafts the SUA-CdS for the following academic year;

- 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 Department of Economics and Management in cooperation with the Departmental Quality Assurance Committee has drawn up a document describing the general outlines of the management system for Quality Assurance (QA) of Study Courses (CdS) and the corresponding Operational Plan. This document is accessible on the following webpage: https://sea.unipr.it/it/didattica/qualita-della-didattica.

The overall planning of QA activities leads to daily contact with student representatives, tutors, teaching staff and staff in the teaching secretariat and central offices. At document or fulfilment deadlines (review, SUA form, start and end of semesters, examination and graduation sessions), activities intensify and take the form of drafting texts or collecting information.

Single Annual Course Report Card

The Single Annual Course Report Card (SUA) is a management tool for the design, implementation, self-assessment and re-design of the Course of Studies. 

Contacts

Toll-free number

800 904 084

Student registry office

E. segreteria.economia@unipr.it
T. +39 0521 902377

Quality assurance office

Education manager:
Mrs Maria Cristina Tamani
T. +39 0521 032454
Office E. didattica.sea@unipr.it
Manager E. mariacristina.tamani@unipr.it 

President of the degree course

prof. Cristina Ziliani
E. cristina.ziliani@unipr.it

Faculty advisor

prof. Silvia Bellini
E. silvia.bellini@unipr.it

Carrer guidance delegate

prof. Chiari Panari
E. chiara.panari@unipr.it

Tutor Professor

prof. Silvia Bellini
E. silvia.bellini@unipr.it

Erasmus delegates

prof. Maria Cecilia Mancini
E. mariacecilia.mancini@unipr.it 
prof. Donata Tania Vergura
E. donatatania.vergura@unipr.it

Quality assurance manager

prof. Silvia Bellini
E. silvia.bellini@unipr.it

Internships

E. tirocini@unipr.it

Tutor student

dott. Anna Boncompagni

E. anna.boncompagni@unipr.it 

dott. Sofia Laudani

E. sofia.laudani@unipr.it