Quality Management System

A shared Quality Management System (QMS) guarantees the quality of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ensuring consistent academic standards, student-centred learning, high-quality teaching, fair and transparent assessment, and a structured mentorship model across all partner higher education institutions. The QMS supports coherent programme delivery, guaranteeing that students experience equivalent learning conditions at partner HEIs in Uganda, Tanzania and Europe participating in the ADVANCE project.

The quality of the programme is continuously monitored using multiple sources of evidence, including student feedback, assessment outcomes, teaching evaluations, stakeholder and mentor input, and programme performance indicators. These findings inform annual programme reviews and periodic revisions, ensuring the programme remains relevant, effective and aligned with labour market and community needs. Virtual mobility, harmonized assessment rubrics and governance mechanisms ensure the comparability and mutual recognition of learning outcomes, grades and credits across partner institutions. All quality assurance processes comply with the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ESG 2015), aligning with national quality assurance requirements in Africa, particularly in Uganda and Tanzania.

The User Handbook of the Quality Management System (QMS) provides a detailed description of all QA procedures, responsibilities, monitoring mechanisms, documentation requirements and continuous improvement processes. It serves as a reference for implementing this Common Curriculum.

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