Head of
Quality Assurance Department Tamar Tuphinashvi
Doctor of Biology, Professor.
Cont. Info.: (+995) 599 905 844;
e-mail: ttupinashvili@sdasu.edu.ge
Functions of Quality Assurance
Department
The functions of Quality Assurance Department are:
a. Elaboration of the rules to assess the University policy of
quality assurance, quality assurance mechanisms and procedures,
teaching and research processes;
b. Cooperation with the relevant services of foreign countries and
their universities aiming at establishing clear quality control
criteria and their methodology; to develop recommendations for the
improvement of university education and scientific research
activities;
c. Organizing and coordinating the elaboration of the University’s
legal act drafts related to education process, scientific research,
authorization and accreditation;
d. Monitoring of academic and scientific research activities of the
University, evaluation of studying and scientific research
activities;
e. Establishing business contacts with higher education
institutions, scientific circles, associations and organizations of
Georgia and foreign countries for implementing the objectives-
defined in the University Mission;
f. Development of technical monitoring and academic expertise
criteria and indicators for Bachelor’s, qualified doctor/dentist,
Master’s, doctoral and life-long education programmes;
g. Organizing systematic technical monitoring of Bachelor’s,
qualified doctor/dentist, Master’s, doctoral and continuing
education programmes based on worked out criteria and
indicators;
h. Organizing periodical academic (including international)
expertise in collaboration with Georgian and Foreign experts over
Bachelor’s, qualified doctor/dentist, Master’s, doctoral and
life-long education programmes ;
i. Presenting the recommendations to the Heads of Education
Programmes (Bachelor’s, qualified doctor/dentist, Master’s,
doctoral and life-long education programmes) for their
improvement;
j. Presenting the recommendations to the Schools and Academic
Council for further improvement on the basis of the recommendation
of technical monitoring ,expertise and external evaluation of the
education programmes;
k. Working out the questionnaires and participating in
questionnaire preparation process;
l. Organizing the process of systematic inquiry and working out the
recommendations based on the analysis of survey results; m. Working
out the recommendations based on student assessment analysis for
the University schools and the Academic Council to solve the
problems in the learning process; n. Reviewing written orders
related to the recognition of student’s credits and elaborating
relevant recommendations for the schools’ administration;
o. Participating in the elaboration of drafting and preparing the
Diploma Supplement of the State Certificate of Higher Education;
participation in the process of drafting and submitting the diploma
supplement to the university graduates;
p. Organizing scientific conferences, trainings, seminars,
consultations and information meetings for academic and
administrative personnel on actual issues related to elaboration,
authorization and accreditation of academic programmes;
q. Organizing the process of study programmes’ conformity with the
accreditation standards;
r. Determining the compliance of the University’s
material-technical base with the authorization standards,
presenting the recommendations to the Rector aimed at complying the
material-technical base with authorization standards;
s. Working out the assessment questionnaire for administrative,
academic and invited personnel, alumni and employers and
participating in the inquiry;
t. Organizing the survey for administrative, academic and invited
staff assessment, working on the survey results, presenting the
results to the relevant bodies, working out the recommendations for
schools and administrative units of the University for the
improvement of their activity; u. Working out the recommendations
for effective implementation of the studying process;
v. Participating in the elaboration of the rules for selecting,
recruiting and exempting of academic personnel, and monitoring
their teaching and research activities;
w. Developing the current, operational and strategic development
plans of the Department;
x. Preparing the documentation of self-assessment questionnaires
and accreditation self-assessment reports;
y. Conducting the educational process and semester assessment of
scientific-research activities, statistical analysis, elaboration
of recommendations and implementation of relevant measures if
necessary;
z. Preparing the resolutions of the Academic Council and drafting
Rector’ legal acts within the Department’s competences, preparing,
checking, initiating, elaborating and publishing objectives related
to it the correspondence and individual administrative-legal
acts;
aa. Performing various functions and tasks within the competences
of the Department, Rector’s legal acts and the Academic Council’s
resolutions.
Quality Assurance Department