Quality Assurance of Malaysian Higher Education

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Quality Assurance of Malaysian Higher Education
COPIA Code of Practice for Institutional Audit
COPPA Code of Practice for Programme
Accreditation
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OUTLINE

• The committees
• Accreditation Committees
• Institutional Audit Committee
• The equivalency Committee
• The standards committee
• Quality Assurance-
• Programme Accreditation (COPPA )
• Institutional Audit (COPIA)
• Self Accrediting certification of HEP
• Malaysian Qualifications Register
• Implementation Dates

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THE COMMITTEES
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Accreditation Committees

• Five major field
• science and medicine,
• engineering and built environment,
• Information technology and multimedia,
• arts and humanities,
• the social sciences
• The functions of the committees
• to evaluate and analyse programme accreditation
  reports
• to make decisions on an HEPs application for
  Provisional or Full Accreditation of programmes
  and qualifications and
• to grant, refuse, maintain or revoke Provisional
  Accreditation or Full Accreditation of programmes
  and qualifications

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Institutional Audit Committee

• An Institutional Audit Committee has the
  following functions
• to evaluate and analyse institutional audit
  reports
• to determine the state of academic health of
  institutions of higher education
• to recommend the awarding of, or otherwise, an
  institutional self accreditation status and
• to make recommendations for the maintenance,
  suspension or revocation of self-accreditation
  status.

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The Equivalency Committee

• Specialize for those originating from outside of
  Malaysia, whose level in the MQF is unclear and
  needs to be determined.
• The Equivalency Committee has the following
  functions
• to receive and analyse equivalency assessment
  reports of programme and qualification and
• to make decision on the equivalency of
  qualifications for their placement in the level
  of qualifications in the MQF.

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The standard committee

• Consisting of experts in the various disciplines
  of study. The members of the committees come from
  the academe, professional bodies and industry
• The Standards Committees have the following
  functions
• to develop and review the guidelines, standards
  and criteria for programme accreditation and
  institutional audit
• to develop and review standards for specific
  disciplines and
• to develop and review guides to good practices

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Quality Assurance
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Quality Assurance Framework

• 1. Programme Accreditation
• 2. Institutional Audit and
• 3. Self Accrediting
• Institution Certification

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1.Programme Accreditation

• Public confidence
• Outcomes focus
• Provisional Accreditation
• Final programme accreditation
• No re-accreditation required
• Programme maintenance audit once in 3 years

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Professional and Skill Qualifications

• Professional Programmes and Qualifications
• Professional programmes (leads to recognition for
  practice) to be submitted to MQA
• Joint Technical Committee HEPs must comply with
  formats, standards criteria for programme
  accreditation set by the professional bodies
• Skills Programme and Qualifications
• Programme and qualifications based on skills by
  Department of Skills Development, Ministry of
  Human Resource
• Non-skills will be processed by MQA and evaluated
  by peer experts

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2. Institutional Audits

• Examines the effectiveness of the quality
  management systems used to manage the
  institutions core functions (policies,
  processes, practices and reviews)
• Audits are about accountability and development
  (CQI)
• Types comprehensive /thematic, maintenance.
• Universities Academic Performance Audit 2008-2009

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3. Certification -Self Accrediting Inst.

• Purpose road map to institutional autonomy on
  academic programmes
• Process Invitation by Minister of HE
• (eligibility criteria), HEP submits application,
  subject to full institutional audit.
  Certification is revocable
• Effect exempted from programme accreditation.
  Apply to register programmes as accredited.
• External check Subject to institutional audit
  once every 5 years.

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Malaysian Qualifications Register
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Malaysian Qualifications Register

• Provides information on accredited programmes and
  qualifications of higher education providers in
  Malaysia
• Registry of assessors
• Serves to
• enhance public confidence of higher education
  qualifications
• as National reference centre/UNESCO Portal for HE
  (Malaysia)
• facilitate credit transfer, mobility and
  recognition

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Programme Accreditation

• A programme is accredited by HEP fulfilling the
  quality assurance standards (S. 2 COPPA)
• QA standards in 9 areas-all Benchmarked
  Standards (must have) must fulfill all
  Benchmarked Standards.
• specific level in Malaysian Qualifications
  Framework- level, 8 domains of Learning
  Outcomes and credit
• the relevant Programme Discipline Standards
• the relevant Guide To Good Practices-e.g. Open
  Entry, Post Graduates, Distance Learning (if
  relevant)
• National policies

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PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES (MALAYSIAN
QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME STANDARDS)
Design of the program Content Structure,
Teaching Learning, Assessment methods
PROCESS INDICATORS
Quality Management -policies, processes,
practices, monitoring, review improvement to
deliver program in such a way that students
achieve learning outcomes
STUDENTS, ACADEMIC FACULTY, ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF,
SUPPORT STAFF, EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES,
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PROGRAMME EVALUATION

• Qualitative (S. 6 COPPA) and Quantitative
• Evaluation Instrument
• Level 5 Excellent - Minimally all benchmarked
  standards and enhanced standards at Attainment
  Level 3
• Level 4 Good - Minimally all benchmarked
  standards and 50 enhanced standards at
  Attainment Level 3
• Level 3 Satisfactory - Minimally all benchmarked
  standards at Attainment Level 3
• Level 2 Less Than Satisfactory - At least 70 of
  all benchmarked standards at Attainment Level 3
• Level 1 Unsatisfactory - Less Than 70 attainment
  of all benchmarked standards at Attainment Level
  3

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USES OF THE SCALE

• To identify areas of strength and concerns
• To identify areas that need further information
  or attention of institutions concerned
• To refine the areas of strengths and concerns
  after gathering and verifying information
• To achieving objectivity in collective judgment
• To determine whether a programme merits
  accreditation

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Implementation Plans1.Approvals to
conductProgrammes 2. Programme Accreditation
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Approval of Programmes by MOHE-steps

1. An established HEP applies to MQA for provisional
   accreditation to obtain the certificate of
   minimum quality requirement (CMQR)
2. The HEP submits CMQR to MOHE to support
   programme approval
3. Once the HEP obtains formal approval and the
   programme commences, MQA will issue Provisional
   Accreditation certificate.

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Implementation Dates
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01/01/09 01/01/11
Public Universities, Polytechnic and Community colleges. Submit to MQA - New programmes in compliance with MQF and QA standards . (Not yet approve by MOHE) Existing programmes- to JPA for recognition Existing JPA recognised programmes will be audited for compliance to MQF COPPA standards
Programmes approved before 31/12/08 to be assessed by JPA for recognition submit for MQR registration same as above
Private Higher Educational Institutions New programmes in MQF and COPPA standards compliant same as above
Approved programmes but not yet accredited may use current format or COPPA format same as above
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Code of Practice for Programme Accreditation 2008
(COPPA)

• The Code explains the requirements, documentation
  and procedures for programme accreditation.
• 6 sections
• 1. The Overview of Quality Assurance of Malaysian
  Higher Education
• 2. Guidelines on Criteria and Standard for
  Programme Accreditation (9 areas)
• 3.Submission for provisional and full
  accreditation (information required-general and
  programme specifics-MQA 01 and 02)
• 4.Programme Accreditation (preparation and
  process)
• 5. The Panel of Assessors
• 6. Guidelines to Preparing Programme
  Accreditation Report.

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