AQRM SURVEY
Quality assurance of higher education institutions is one
core area to revitalizing higher education and research in Africa. The
Commission of the African Union therefore spearheaded the development of an
African Quality Rating Mechanism (AQRM) to establish an African system that will
ensure the performance of higher education institutions can be compared against
a set of common criteria and to help the institutions carry out self-evaluation
exercises to support the development of institutional cultures of quality. A
pilot self-rating exercise was conducted in 2010 where 32 institutions were
participated.
Based on the experience and feedback gained from the pilot
survey, the Commission of the African Union in collaboration with the
Association of African Universities developed this revised version of AQRM
questionnaire and rating instrument. It is expected that African higher
education institutions will take ownership of their own quality assurance
processes and use this AQRM questionnaire as one means of
supporting continuous quality improvements and as a tool for strategic planning
in quality assurance.
Your cooperation in completing this questionnaire is greatly
appreciated. It is important that each question is answered carefully so that
the information provided reflects the situation in your institution and
programmes as accurately as possible. You are also advised to
submit the questionnaire electronically so as to allow efficient processing of
the data.
