Description
This development is in line with Malaysia's long term development plans as well as the Ministry of Higher Education's aspiration for the transformation of higher education in the country. These reflect a maturing Malaysian higher education system that encourages providers to adopt a more and holistic approach in the provision of quality education.
Assigned the task to ensure quality in higher education in the spirit of the MQF, the MQA has developed a series of guidelines, standards and codes of practice to assist the higher education providers enhance their academic performance and institutional effectiveness. Key among these are the Code of Practice for Programme Accreditation (COPPA) and Code of Practice for Institutional Audit (COPIA).
COPPA and COPIA are intended to be useful guides for providers of higher education, quality assurance auditors, officers of the MQA, policy makers, professional bodies and other stakeholders engaged in higher education. The Codes, not only contain an overview of the Malaysian quality assurance system for higher education, they also guide the reader on the nine areas of evaluation for quality assurance as well as the two levels of standards -- benchmarked and enhanced standards-that underline them. In addition, the two documents provide guidance for internal quality review to be conducted by the institution and external audit to be conducted by the MQA's panel of assessors. They also include site visit schedules as well as guidelines on report writing.
ISBN: 9789834401504
