University of Technology Participates in Panel Discussion Held at American University

The Director of the Quality Assurance and University Performance Department at the University of Technology, along with the heads of the quality and accreditation divisions in the department, and the heads of the quality divisions and unit heads in the Department of Communications Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, participated in a panel discussion held at the American University in Baghdad, presented by a member of the Institutional Accreditation Council, Professor Dr. Khalil Ibrahim Mahmoud, with a distinguished presence from public and private universities.

The member of the Institutional Accreditation Council addressed the importance of sustaining the application of institutional accreditation standards in universities, where internal review is considered an essential part of ensuring this sustainability.

Reviewers play a vital role in ensuring the university’s compliance with requirements before or after granting accreditation, whether it is conditional or full accreditation. These reviewers internally monitor the university’s progress in applying the requirements and fulfilling the indicators based on the observations of the external evaluation teams.

The panel discussion addressed:

• The importance of internal review in educational institutions.
• The role of the reviewer before the external evaluator’s field visit and the continuous application of standards after obtaining conditional or full accreditation.
• In addition to the qualifications and specifications of the internal reviewer and the stages of the review process, checklists and procedures, and how to prepare a detailed review plan.
• Finally, emphasis was placed on the sustainability of applying institutional accreditation standards even after obtaining conditional or full accreditation.