On May 21st, 2024, the Directorate of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development organized a meeting supervised by Assistant Professor Dr. Ava Omar Fatah, Director of the Directorate. The meeting began with a discussion of APPRAIS (Governance, Quality, Accountability: a Piloting Reform Process in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq), a European Commission, Erasmus+, KA2 project for Capacity-building in the Field of Higher Education. The project has been funded with support from the European Union. Following that, a new software for managing quality assurance in research, the third mission, and student services was introduced, which is the outcome of the project. It assists academic staff in their research, quality assurance, and student service work, while aiding administrative staff in organizing faculty, staff, and student tasks. The software also includes teacher portfolios and Continuous Academic Development (CAD). The meeting was attended by those teachers from colleges and centers who have chosen to collect data about lecturers, students, and courses to upload to the software. Additionally, the practical and demonstrated part of the software was discussed by Rezhin Sarbast Majeed, who works as the software administrator.
On October 24th, 2024, Dr. Baraa Ramzi Abdulhameed presented a workshop entitled (How to Write Self Assessment Report) to our directorate by discussing all the sections related to writing (self assessment report) in order to gain an Accreditation for an institution.
On September 30th, 2024, Assist. Prof. Dr. Ava Omar Fatah Director of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development had a meeting with the Head of Quality Assurance of all Colleges, Examine the quality assurance efforts from previous years as well as the plans for the upcoming academic year. Additionally, consider ways to enhance our practices to foster the improvement of our university.