Telavi State University Quality Assurance Office

Quality Assurance Office (afterwards the Office) represents a structural unit of the University, carrying out its activities in accordance with the requirements of Georgian Law “About Higher Education”, University Statute and Regulation. The objective of Quality Assurance Office is to promote education quality enhancement through the introduction of modern standards and methods for evaluating learning, teaching, scientific research, students’ level of knowledge and academic staff activities. The Office is accountable before the University Academic and Representative Councils.

Structure of the Office:

The Head of the University Office is appointed by the Representative Council under the claim of the Academic Council. The head of the Office may be a professor, associate professor or a person having doctor’s academic degree, without any other administrative position. The Head of the Office is elected for 4 years; one and the same person may be elected for the position of the Head two times only. The University Office members are Office specialists, leading specialists and Heads of Faculty Quality Assurance Office, who are responsible for: preparing academic documentation; organizing and managing the University databases; working out the
registration system for students’ elective courses; organizing teaching process monitoring.

Staffs and salaries of the specialists belonging to the University Head of the Office are defined by the University Rector and approved by the Head of Administration. Heads of the Faculty Offices are elected and approved by the proper Faculty Board. Head of the Faculty Office may be a member of the Faculty Board, associate professor or professor, without another administrative position and not being the head of the other Office or a structural unit. Head of the Faculty Quality Assurance Office is elected for 4 years; one and the same person may be elected as a head only two times. Staffs and salaries of the Faculty Office Heads are defined by the University Rector and approved by the Head of Administration. Faculty Office member may be any member from the Faculty Board with doctor’s academic degree. The Faculty Office is accountable before the Faculty Board. Head of the Faculty Quality Assurance Office is the member of the University Office.

The Office Functions:
The Office provides compliance of the University educational programmes with the modern standards, as well as Bologna process requirements. For this it:
Analyzes and recommends curriculums of all specialties and levels (in compliance with Bologna process requirements); ensures teaching process with all necessary documents; participates in the development of educational programmes, curriculums and normative documents; makes consultations about introducing the credit system and ensures its introduction  in all specialties of the University; recommends new teaching methods and approaches, for which it organizes or holds trainings for academic staff; controls teaching process, efficiency of academic staff; verifies and analyzes course and outcomes of each teaching process stages, makes recommendations for directing teaching process in an optimal way; develops and implements the evaluation system for academic staff  work  by using different evaluation criteria existing in teaching and research fields; conducts or organizes consultations for academic staff regarding research project opportunities; ensures revision of curriculum and lecture course programmes (syllabuses) by foreign experts; ensures renewal of collegiate evaluation system and efficiency of academic staff activities; makes close connections and collaborates with proper Offices of Georgian and foreign Universities in order to form transparent criteria and methodology for the maintenance of quality control, shares information concerning the carried out researches and arrangements of evaluation.