Basic Sciences Department Quality Unit

Vision

To improve students' capabilities in the Department of Basic Sciences and enhance their learning outcomes within a distinct educational environment and a supportive structural system in accordance with the strategic objectives of the Common First Year Deanship.
 

Mission

Providing outstanding education through a stimulating environment with the application and activation of all its requirements through reviewing the achievement of department quality goals, the academic, technical and administrative follow-up and the continuous improvement, as well as the application of quality management system in accordance with the requirements of international standard ISO 9001:2015.
 

Objectives

•    Disseminating quality culture in the Department of Basic Sciences.
•    Monitoring the assessment of the educational outcomes with a view to their development.
•    Discovering and diagnosing problems and shortcomings in the educational process, enhancing strengths and addressing weaknesses.
•    Following-up on the implementation of the quality procedures received from the Common First Year Vice Deanship for Development and Quality.
•    Boosting the competence of the Department of Basic Sciences staff through quality plans, policies and objectives in order to improve students' level.
•    Preparing and implementing the department's strategic plan in the light of the strategic plan of the deanship and the university.
 

Quality Unit Background Information

It is the unit responsible for achieving the quality indicators and standards of King Saud University in the Department of Basic Sciences, Common First Year Deanship. The quality unit of the Basic Sciences Department is responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of the department's annual plan in accordance with the deanship's strategic plan. This plan transmits a vivid and realistic image of the department (features, deficiencies, strengths, weaknesses, capabilities, opportunities, impediments) and in the light of which decisions are taken by the competent authorities of the deanship or King Saud University towards the department and the Common First Year Deanship.
 

Quality Unit Duties

•    Disseminating quality culture in the Basic Sciences Department.
•    Participating in the development of the department's strategic plan in order to achieve the vision, mission and objectives of the Common First Year 

Deanship and the university.

•    Providing quality advice and support to the department.
•    Following-up on the implementation of the quality procedures received from the Common First Year Vice Deanship for Development and Quality.
•    Encouraging department staff to propose initiatives and assisting them in operationalizing those initiatives.
•    Providing the necessary facilities for all task forces working on applying quality.
•    Documenting the efforts and results of the application and reporting them to the Vice Deanship for Development and Quality.
•    Collecting data and information continuously on the department quality activities.
•    Submitting periodic reports on the levels of performance, and the beneficiaries’ satisfaction in all aspects of the department's educational process.
•    Following up on the proceedings of the awards of excellence in the department.
•    Supervising the works related to supporting educational and training initiatives in various department courses and reporting to the Vice Deanship for 

Development and Quality.

•    Preparing the department's self-study in light of the requirements of the National Evaluation and Academic Accreditation Authority, and providing the Vice Deanship for Development and Quality with a copy of it.
•    Monitoring the strengths that need enhancement, and the weaknesses and constraints that require treatment, and extracting the topics that need to be studied and researched.
•    Following up on the implementation of training courses, workshops and panel discussions within the department and assessing their usefulness and reporting to the Vice Deanship for Development and Quality.
•    Implementing the quality management system in the Basic Sciences Department in accordance with ISO 9001:2015.
 

Action Plan

•    Preparing reports on the evaluation of tests.
•    Following-up on the administration of all the department questionnaires, particularly the students’ and trainers’ satisfaction with the Basic Sciences 

Department Program.

•    Following-up on the preparation of reports on the students’ and trainers’ satisfaction questionnaires with the Basic Sciences Department Program
•    Reviewing all result files, and course reports and specifications.
•    Following-up on the preparation of all department's test result reports.
•    Archiving all files.
•    Providing the requirements for applying the ISO 9001:2015 specifications.
•    Following-up on the implementation of the department's strategic plan throughout the academic year.
 

Reports

•    Reporting on quarterly accomplishments periodically.
•    Reporting on readiness at the beginning of each semester of the academic year.
•    Reporting on coordinator's evaluation of the trainer
•    Reporting on department evaluation of trainer
•    Reporting on students’ evaluation of the trainer
•    Reporting on the trainer’s evaluation of the final test 
•    Surveying the Basic Sciences trainers’ views on the new students
•    Reporting on the results of the Basic Sciences Department's courses
•    Reporting on development and quality 
•    Reporting on the Training Unit (Professional Development).
•    Preparing course reports and specifications.
•    Reporting on the department's training workshops and panel discussions.