Welcome to the quality assurance and enhancement (QAE) webpage of the University of Saint Joseph!
The Quality Assurance Office, established in September 2018, handles a wide range of QAE matters, liaising with internal and external stakeholders, quality assurance agencies, and the Macao government offices. The QAE website pages, to which links are provided here, attest to the significant role that QAE plays in meeting the mission statement of the University to ‘welcome all who seek academic excellence, irrespective of their ethnic, social or religious affiliation’.
The Quality Assurance Office is formally accountable to the Rector and the Executive Council of the University. It also has a duty to provide all relevant members of the University with relevant information, support, training and development in all QAE matters and to ensure that QAE requirements are met across the University, its units and members.
To be the pre-eminent leader in, and exemplar of, international standards of quality assurance, enhancement, development, and accreditation amongst higher education institutions in the region.
Our Mission
To achieve, protect, and ensure confidence in the highest international quality standards and quality management systems in all the work, procedures, and operations of the University and its members through continuous improvement, development, and enhancement.
2. To lead, manage, administer and support the formulation, dissemination, monitoring, review and continuous development of strategies, policies, frameworks, systems, procedures, practices and documentation for the University’s QAE in all units.
3. To promote, implement, monitor, review, audit, evaluate, report on, and continuously improve strategic developments and practices of QAE requirements, policies, frameworks and procedures across the University and its units, aligned to the University’s vision and strategic planning.
4. To continuously improve the standards and QAE of the University’s strategies, frameworks and procedures for all its work, together with identifying, promoting, reporting and disseminating ‘best practice’ in QAE and QAE-related matters across the University, and promoting excellence and achieving international standards.
The full document about the Terms of Reference of the QA Office is available HERE.
Contact no.: (853) 8592 5684 / 8592 5694 / 8592 5713
Email: QA@usj.edu.mo