African Quality Assurance Mechanisms (AQRM)
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Date
2022
Authors
Oyewole, Olusola
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HAQAA Initiative
Abstract
The African Quality Rating Mechanisms (AQRM) is a tool that higher education institutions in Africa can employ to ensure the quality of their programs and processes. It was adopted by the Conference of the African Union Ministers of Education in 2007. In 2018, the African Union Commission handed over the AQRM questionnaire to the AAU, but it was realized that an overhaul of the whole instrument was inevitable. The instrument was re-developed by the AAU and the launch of the African Quality Rating Mechanism (AQRM) for institutional improvement was done on Friday June 3rd 2022, with an overwhelming response
from the whole world.
The AQRM was promoted as part of the Harmonization of African Quality Assurance Programs 1 and 2, during which its contents were improved to take care of emerging issues in higher education, post-COVID.
The HAQAA2 program was able to develop an 0n-line version of the AQRM so that institutions can complete the questionnaires on their own for online analysis.
This tool has been found to be a useful tool for driving institutional internal quality assurance processes. Issues about the validations of institutional self-analysis have been raised. However, institutions are challenged to raise up internal validation teams to check on themselves. The AQRM tool can be used by any institution or by a unit, department or college in an institution. Its current version is to ensure that institutions can promote it to a wider use in their environment.
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Keywords
Higher Education, Quality Assurance
Citation
Oyewole, O. (2022) African Quality Rating Mechanisms (AQRM), HAQAA Initiative