The University of Almería (UAL) has designed and implemented a Quality Assurance System (QAS) in its Centers, the main objective of which is to ensure the continuous improvement of the official degrees taught in them.
Through the QAS, UAL ensures that its degrees meet the highest possible quality standards and can confidently face the processes of periodic monitoring and the renewal of their respective accreditations. At the same time, the institution is accountable to society and makes formal commitments to advance in offering its students training of the highest quality.
The QAS has been designed according to the criteria established by the Directorate for Evaluation of the Andalusian Knowledge Agency (DEVA), the guidelines of the AUDIT Program from the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA), and the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG), established in 2005 and revised in 2015.
The structure of the QAS is composed of various mechanisms that allow for the collection and analysis of all relevant information regarding an official degree. This information is systematically analyzed by the Center's Quality Committee to evaluate, review, and make decisions aimed at its improvement.
Each UAL Center has two documents that formally define its QAS: the Quality Manual, which establishes what the QAS is, its scope, content, functions, and responsibilities; and the Procedures Manual, which details how, by whom, and when each of the processes taking place in the Center is carried out. This is graphically represented in the Center's QAS Process Map.
Access to the Doctoral School's Quality Assurance System