Introduction
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) requires ongoing and targeted measures to realize the planned improvement. These are strategies that provide great ways to overcome the weaknesses of the programs using strengths and opportunities identified through a comprehensive self-assessment and peer review process. The process of improvement begins with the developing a required improvement plan (usually from one month post audit to up to 5 years). This plan addresses all issues identified for programs improvement to enhance students learning. Together, the components of the program’s improvement plan should embody a design that is comprehensive, highly structured, specific, and focused. Specifically, the plan must:
- Identify affirmations and recommendations made by peer auditors by the nine QA Areas for Bangladesh and relevant strategic interventions and timelines.
- Incorporate strategies that will strengthen the core academic subjects in the entity and address the specific academic issues.
- Adopt policies and practices concerning the programs’ core academic subjects that have the greatest likelihood of ensuring that all groups of students will meet the programs’ proficiency level of achievement
- Establish specific, annual, measurable objectives for continuous and substantial progress by students
- Incorporate strategies to promote high quality professional development
- Incorporate strategies to promote high quality research
It consists of-