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SIGAQ-UM
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Institutional Assessment – UM Audit by A3ES
SIGAQ-UM
The Quality Assurance Internal System's (SIGAQ-UM) aim is to promote the quality policy in all the aspects of the institutional mission, encompassing systematically all the activities undertaken by the University.
The SIGAQ-UM attempts to address the challenges brought by the European standards and guidelines for
quality assurance
within higher education institutions. For that, the SIGAQ-UM includes an integrated and holistic approach to quality and quality assurance in the University, namely on what concerns the explicit definition of internal patterns for quality, and the organisation of procedures and instruments for quality assurance, structured as a well-documented system, applied in a consistent fashion.
As such, the SIGAQ-UM promotes the definition and documentation of the structuring elements for the implementation of the quality policy, namely:
T
he institutional strategy and the quality standards;
The responsibilities of the different bodies and levels of management in the quality assurance processes;
The monitoring, control, thought and intervention processes, with the objective of continuous improvement;
The forms of participation of students, teaching, research and non-teaching staff, as well as external partners;
The organisation and continuous improvement of the system, as well as the form of monitoring and the revision of the quality policy.
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- Summary of the instruments and mechanisms of the SIGAQ-UM
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Quality Manual
Quality Manual
The
Quality Manual
is a formal document that describes the global conception of the institutional quality policy and how it is put forward within an Internal Quality Assurance System (SIGAQ-UM).
Namely, the Manual approaches and develops the following aspects, aligned with European standards for quality assurance and legal applicable dispositions:
the general guidelines of the institutional strategy for quality;
The SIG
AQ-UM organisation: its scope and goals, strategic and operational coordination structures; levels of responsibility in the specific field of quality;
The monitoring, assessment and intervention methodologies, aimed at continuous improvement, differentiated on the grounds of the institutional mission elements - teaching and learning, research and development, interaction with society - and the cross-cutting areas of human resources and services;
The SIGAQ-UM interface with the institution's strategic management;
The production and dissemination of information, concerning the collection and processing of information, as well as the publication of relevant information to external partners.
Faced with the complexity of the teaching and learning processes, the Manual specifies in detail the strategy and mechanisms for assessment and teaching improvement.
The Manual also includes the identification of a series of selected indicators, which will become, in time, an Institutional Progress Chart, to allow for a dynamic reading of the University's development.