Where a university has affiliated colleges or institutes, the quality of the education delivered there is the affiliating university's responsibility. Under the HEC framework each affiliated institution is required to establish a Quality Enhancement Cell for Affiliated Colleges (QECAC), working under the affiliating university's Quality Enhancement Cell.
The Directorate's role
- Guiding affiliated institutions in establishing and staffing their QECACs.
- Extending the University's quality instruments — course evaluation, teacher evaluation, graduating student and alumni surveys — to affiliated institutions.
- Conducting inspection and monitoring visits, and reporting on faculty strength, facilities and compliance with affiliation conditions.
- Reviewing affiliation and renewal cases in terms of the effective management of standards and quality.
- Training QECAC staff alongside the University's own focal persons.
- Consolidating affiliated-institution returns into the University's reporting to the HEC.
Affiliation review
New affiliation and renewal of affiliation are assessed on the same headings as a new programme proposal: qualified faculty against the programme's requirements, laboratory, library and computing facilities, physical infrastructure, financial viability, and the governance arrangements of the institution. Findings are reported to the competent statutory body of the University.