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Statutory councils accredit various NWU programmes
Various statutory councils visited the NWU this year during which a number of programmes were successfully accredited.
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Why are quality manuals so important?
One of the Institutional Quality Office's (IQO) goals is to ensure that all NWU faculties and support departments have quality manuals. A quality manual is of great value as this serves as a guide and documents a faculty or support departments' background, positioning, vision, goals, structure, processes and quality management.
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Quality Office visits USA
During a recent visit to the USA, Ms Antoinette Vermeulen, Quality Manager: Academic Programmes, delivered a paper on quality assurance at a conference of the American Evaluation Association. According to Antoinette the conference was a great success and provided ample opportunity for networking.
She was also invited by the Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) to do a presentation as a guest lecturer on social work-related experiences, assessment and quality control in South Africa. The students in attendance were impressed with her lecture and participated enthusiastically.
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Two birds with one stone - a first of its kind!
During the week of 27-31 August an historical peer evaluation took place when two support departments from two campuses were evaluated simultaneously by the same panel.
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Quality Office hosts discussion forum
On 7 and 8 February 2012 the Quality Office, in collaboration with peers from other universities, held a discussion forum about quality assurance of support departments.
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Indaba 2012 was a huge success
Another first of its kind for support departments of the NWU took place when the Quality Office held an Indaba in October. This Indaba was organised as a networking event specifically for the 85 support departments within the university.
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Please send any enquiries or comments to Tommy Pietersen
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