QUALITY ASSURANCE & EVALUATIONS

As a registered private higher education institution with a social mission, FPD is not only committed to complying with the relevant regulations and requirements but is dedicated to ensuring that quality assurance is implicit in all our activities to provide the optimal teaching and learning experience for our students as well as our teaching and support staff. WE thus aim to have quality culture embedded in our systems and activities.

Quality Assurance at FPD is a cycle of implementing new practices, reviewing current practices and refining our approach to deliver quality learning experiences. The FPD Quality Assurance and Evaluation (QAE) Unit is responsible for ensuring the quality of FPD’s educational products, management of regulatory compliance and reporting, and monitoring and evaluation activities. The QAE is also responsible for designing and implementing evaluations of internal and external donor-funded and commercial educational programmes.

Quality Assurance includes the following broad areas:

Ensuring that the Academic Policies of FPD meet the standard of the relevant regulators, guide staff members and support students
Promoting the professional development of Academic staff members according to individual and organisational needs
Monitoring and refining educational practices to be in line with the Council on Higher Education’s Quality Assurance Framework and requirements for 21st century skills
Reporting to regulatory authorities
Submitting new qualifications to regulators for accreditation
Participating in local and global dialogues on Higher Education in FPD’s areas of interest through various associations

Evaluation of academic programmes and training interventions is a systematic process of collecting information about teaching and learning activities, processes and outcomes, which can then be used for guiding decision making and for assessing the relevance and effectiveness of various educational products. Reasons for conducting evaluations on academic programmes and training interventions include:

improving the training programme for future participants
confirming that the money invested in training was well spent
proving that the training programme is adding value or having the intended impact

FPD provides the following evaluation services:

Development of M&E frameworks and plans, including log frames and theory of change.
Development of monitoring systems (online and offline) to track implementation progress.
Development of rigorous evaluation plans and research proposals to assess outcomes, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of a programme using social science methodologies.
Development of quantitative and qualitative data collection tools (e.g., questionnaires/ surveys, interview schedules, etc).
Implementation and management of programme evaluations.
Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data using software such as SPSS and Atlat.Ti
Dissemination of findings through high-quality reports, data visualisations, dashboards, and presentations.
Other services offered:
- Rapid assessments and gap analyses
- Training needs assessments and skills audits
- Customer and Employee Satisfaction Survey