On June 5, ANQA’s specialists carried out monitoring of the internal quality assurance system at the "Grigoris" Medical-Humanitarian College. The monitoring aimed to observe the institution’s post-accreditation progress and the impact of the internal quality assurance system on its development.
The monitoring focused on the following:
- the impact of the internal quality assurance system on identifying and addressing the institution's needs,
- the processes implemented for enhancing the APs and the assessment system.
Meri Barseghyan, specialist at ANQA’s Policy Development and Implementation Division, and Anahit Terteryan, specialist at ANQA’s Institutional and Programme Accreditation Division, held meeting discussions with the institution’s director and vice directors, heads of chairs and teachers, students and the QA manager.
The following topics were under discussion:
- the issues faced by the QA system and their KPIs;
- the planning of QA activities, outcomes of the implemented measures;
- the experience of forming interdisciplinary connections;
- the assignments forming professional thinking and the implementation of formative assessment;
- the process and results of integrating modern professional requirements into the APs by the employer teachers;
- the increase in the teachers’ proficiency level of foreign languages to boost the effectiveness of teaching international students.
At the end of the monitoring, ANQA’s specialists highlighted that institution should:
- clarify assessment methods, providing relevant feedback to students for the achievement of the expected outcomes;
- maintain the idea of a "teacher pool" and recruit new specialists to prevent staff crisis;
- develop interdisciplinary connections;
- take measures to promote proficiency in professional foreign languages, incorporating foreign language assignments into the professional modules as well.