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Quality assurance at Canadian universities
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
P.O. Box 550
Truro NS B2N 5E3
Institutional Contact
Dr. Leslie MacLaren
Vice-President, Academic
lmaclaren@nsac.ns.ca
Institutional profile
Institutional quality assurance
Does this institution have a quality assurance policy or set of procedures:
Quality assurance applies to the following programs:
- Undergraduate
- Master's
- Proposed undergraduate
- Proposed master's
- Proposed doctoral
Roles and responsibilities:
| | Approval of policies and procedures: Senior Management Committee |
| | Oversight of policies and procedures: Degree programs at NSAC are offered by NSAC in association with Dalhousie University. Oversight is provided by the NSAC Senior Management Committee and Senate of Dalhousie University. |
| | Administration of policies and procedures: Vice-President, Academic |
The QA policy covers the following aspects of the program under review:
- institutional relevance
- inter-institutional relevance
- specific terms of reference for each review
- human resources
- physical resources
- entrance requirements
- assessment of the relationship between teaching and research
- academic counselling
- social counselling
- for master's programs, a research component
- library and related support
- post graduation experience/employment
- the adequacy of the structure of the program to its objectives
- the adequacy of the teaching and learning assessment strategies to the objectives of the program
Implementation of the QA policy includes:
- self-evaluation
- involvement of external disciplinary expertise
- involvement of other external expertise/advice (eg. socio-economic)
- involvement of students
- involvement of faculty
- involvement of institutional administration
- involvement of alumni
- integration of the criteria and processes for the accreditation of professional programs
Cyclical reviews:
| | Each academic program is subject to review: 7 years |
Accreditation of professional programs:
| | Agriculture - Agricultural Institute of Canada |
Provincial or regional quality assurance
| | The Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission is responsible for the following activities carried out in the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: a) to review all new program and program modification proposals; and b) to monitor the institutions' quality assurance mechanisms to ascertain that the procedures they use to assess the quality of existing programs are performing adequately as quality control and quality improvement mechanisms.
The monitoring role is carried out by the joint Association of Atlantic Universities-MPHEC Quality Assurance Monitoring Committee. It functions as a peer review committee whose purpose is to advise and assist the MPHEC in ensuring continuous improvement in the quality of academic programs and teaching. A key outcome of the process is the provision of assistance and advice to institutions on ways to enhance their quality assurance policies and procedures. Criteria have been established for the assessment of institutional quality assurance procedures.
MPHEC is accountable to the Council of Maritime Premiers.
http://www.mphec.ca |
Institution is in compliance with the requirements of the provincial or regional process for:
- Current programs
- Proposed programs
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