Quality assurance
Parent term: Quality
5 definitions, 3 child terms
![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/bluedot.gif) The processes of ensuring that specified standards or requirements for teaching, learning, education administration, assessment and the recording of achievements have been met. Source: SAQA 2013, South Africa
Organisation: | South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) , South Africa |
Source: | TVET Standard Glossary of Terms (2013) |
Description: | This standard glossary of terms defines and clarifies the core terminology relating to the development and implementation of the South African National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
As a direct result of the many changes in the education and training landscape between 1995 and 2013, a wide range of terminology and definitions have emerged, often causing confusion and leading to ambiguity in the system. This glossary has been developed to bring consistency to the use of terminology in the broader education and training context, including legislation, policy and everyday usage by the public. Website![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/link_ext.gif) |
![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/bluedot.gif) Ways in which evidence for qualification is collected, interpreted and used, it has both a disciplinary and developmental role, attempting to overcome the conventionally recognised difficulty of nurturing and judging performance at the same time. Source: SADC 2011, Southern Africa
Organisation: | Southern African Development Community (SADC) , Southern Africa |
Source: | SADC Glossary (2011) |
Description: | Glossary starting at p26.
Concept Paper and Implementation Plan for the SADC Regional Qualifications Framework (Original document developed by the SADC Technical Committee on Certification and Accreditation in Maseru in 2005. This is an updated and amended version of the original document). Front page![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/link_ext.gif) |
![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/bluedot.gif) A planned and systematic pattern of all actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that the product, its components, packaging and labeling are acceptable for their intended use. Source: TESDA 2010, Philippines
Organisation: | Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) , Philippines |
Source: | TVET glossaries of terms (2010) |
Description: | The Glossary of Terms, 4th edition, provides definitions of TVET terms and terminologies commonly used in education, labor and employment and other TVET related areas in the Philippines.
The complexity of the environment where TVET operates requires regular review and updating of TVET terminologies as systems, standards, processes, policies and programs continue to change. The provision of this glossary is intended to facilitate comprehension and better understanding as we move together in making TVET work for our people and country. p. iii![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/link_ext.gif) |
![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/bluedot.gif) Quality assurance encompasses any activity that is concerned with assessing and improving the merit or the worth of a development intervention or its compliance with given standards. Note: examples of quality assurance activities include appraisal, RBM, reviews during implementation, evaluations, etc. Quality assurance may also refer to the assessment of the quality of a portfolio and its development effectiveness.
Source: OECD 2010
![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/bluedot.gif) Processes and procedures for ensuring that qualifications, assessment and programme delivery meet certain standards. Source: ILO (SED) 2007, Global
Organisation: | International Labor Organization (Skills and Employability Department) , UN |
Source: | An Introductory Guide to National Qualifications Frameworks (2007) |
Description: | Glossary p63
"There are surprisingly few documents which spell out, in a practical way, what an NQF can achieve realistically, what are the preconditions and potential pitfalls and how it can be developed. NQFs have been much discussed and with much enthusiasm, but it may be questioned whether their technical and institutional complexity are well understood.
This Guide attempts to respond to these concerns, and by doing so, to assist policy makers in making informed judgments as to whether and how they can pursue the development of an NQF in meeting the specific needs of their training systems."p. iii (Preface)![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/link_ext.gif) |
Child terms
European network for quality assurance in vocational education and training (ENQA-VET)In October 2005, ENQA-VET was established by the European Commission in order to continue the work of the Technical Working Group on Quality in VET and provide a sustainable platform for members (representing 22 Member countries) to support the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration.[...] ENQA-VET, by implementing its work programme, developed:
- a culture and shared understanding of quality assurance and continuous improvements across the EU
- a sustainable platform for quality assurance on which mutual trust was built
- common instruments and guidelines for the development of quality assurance in VET systems
EQAVET builds on the results and outcomes achieved by ENQA-VET (2005-2009)
Source: EQAVET 2014, EU
Quality assurance management system (CAMS)System designed and developed to provide guidelines that will enable the management of Enterprises and TVET Institutions to set valid and reliable Quality Controls (QC) in place with a view to having reasonable Quality Assurance (QA) that their workers/trainees/students are well trained, assessed, verified, proved to be competent and provided "Evidences" that they can effectively perform all tasks assigned to them, including Health, Safety and Environmental Protection (HSEP) (or Occupation Health and safety OHS) and Business Critical Tasks, up to the Minimum Competency Level (Standard) required at Work Location. Source: Wahba 2013, Global
Organisation: | Moustafa Wahba (TVET consultant), Egypt |
Source: | TVET glossary MW (2013) |
Description: | The Egyptian TVET expert Moustafa Wahba developed a glossary based on his own experience as a consultant in TVET. Moustafa Wahba (UNEVOC e-Forum)![](/web/20170128013357im_/http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/pix/link_ext.gif) |
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