Tehran University of Medical SciencesOffice of Vice-Chancellor for Global Strategies & International AffairsSecretariat of International Quality Assurance and Accreditation Network
Accreditation Officers of The Secretariat of International Quality Assurance And Accreditation Network of Tehran University of Medical Sciences Have Attended the 3rd Conference on Quality Assurance of University Systems, 2016.
Accreditation officers of the Secretariat of International Quality Assurance and Accreditation Network (IQAAN) of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) attended the 3rd conference on Quality Assurance of University Systems (QAUS) which was to emphasize the importance of the quality and its promotion in Higher Education.
This conference which was held in Tarbiat Modares University (Tehran) on 26 - 27th April 2016 and lasted two days emphasized the necessity of quality assurance, promoting the quality culture in higher education institutions and the society, the importance of quality of higher education in internationalization of the universities and pointed to the challenges that the higher education institutions face regarding the notion of the quality.
In this conference, Dr. Abbas Bazargan, a member of the Department of Educational Management and Planning in University of Tehran, Mr. Rafael Llavory, a member of the European Accreditation Network, Dr. Mohammad Saeed Taslimi the representative of the Ministery of Science, Research and Technology and other keynote speakers were present and gave lectures.
Along with the major line of the conference in which selected papers were presented, there were three workshops; improving the professional competencies of academic staff, the institutional evaluation experiences in Europe: Concepts and indicators and the internal and external evaluation of the University systems.
This conference terminated with an expert panel answering the questions raised by the audience.
Reported by: M. Davoodifar