Message of the Director

The Quality Enhancement Cell is a vital part of administrative and academic structure of Government College University, Faisalabad under the leadership of the Worthy Vice Chancellor. The QEC, Govt. College University Faisalabad always remains active, efficient, vigilant and in the coordination with Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan, for implementation of quality enhancement strategies, moreover it monitors the academic and administrative programs, functions to ensure the quality of education, research and development and makes sure that the internationally accepted standards of quality education are being met and maintained. For enhancing quality culture at Govt. College University Faisalabad, the Quality Enhancement Cell organizes seminars/workshops time to time.

Consequently, the quality culture is flourishing rapidly in the University as there was no culture of maintaining course files and attendance registers of classes taught by teachers. As directed by the Worthy Vice Chancellor, the QEC, conducted many visits of each department to check course files and attendance registers. Gradually this culture has been developed and the faculty members recognized the efforts of QEC.

History

QEC is established under the guidelines of the HEC to enhance, maintain and monitor quality of higher education. Government College University Faisalabad is among those thirty universities in Pakistan in which QECs have been established since 2006. The Higher Education Commission issued directions for establishment of QEC on Oct. 16, 2006. In October 2006, GCUF authorities constituted the cell according to the guidelines of HEC.

Staff

1. Director QEC
   • Dr. Asim Mansha
   • Professor, Department of Chemistry
2. Deputy Director
   • Dr. Shabana Naz
   • Associate Professor, Department of Zoology
3. Deputy Director
   • Dr. Muhammad Saeed
   • Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
4. Deputy Director
   • Dr. Muhammad Waseem Bari
   • Assistant Professor, LBS
5. Deputy Director (DB & IT Services)
   • Sheikh Muhammad Aamir
   • Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
6. Coordinator
   • Ms. Tahira Raheed
7. Coordinator
   • Mr. Fazal ur Rehman
8. Data Analyst
   • Muhammad Saleem Khalid
9. Research Assistant
   • Ms. Arzue Liaqat
10. Computer Operator
    • Ms. Sozia Atta

QEC Functions

1. The Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) is to be headed by a Dean reporting directly to Vice Chancellor/Rector. He is to be correspondent with the outside bodies.
2. QEC is responsible for promoting public confidence that the quality and standards of the award of degrees are enhanced and safeguarded.
3. QEC is responsible for the review of quality standards and the quality of teaching and learning in each subject area.
4. QEC is responsible for the review of academic affiliations with other institutions in terms of effective management of standards and quality of programs.
5. QEC is responsible for defining clear and explicit standards as points of reference to the reviews to be carried out. It should also help the employees to know as to what they could expect from candidates.
6. QEC is responsible to develop qualifications framework by seting out the attributes and abilities that can be expected from the holder of a qualification, i.e. Bachelors, Bachelor with Honors, Master’s, M. Phil., Doctoral.
7. QEC is responsible to develop program specifications. These are standard set of information clarifying what knowledge, understanding, skills and other attributes a student will have developed on successfully completing a specific program.
8. QEC is responsible to develop quality assurance processes and methods of evaluation to affirm that the quality of provision and the standard of awards are being maintained and to foster curriculum, subject and staff development, together with research and other scholarly activities.
9. QEC is responsible to ensure that the university’s quality assurance procedures are designed to fit in with the arrangements in place nationally for maintaining and improving the quality of Higher Education.
10. QEC is responsible to develop procedures for the following:
    • Approval of new program
    • Annual Monitoring and evaluation including program monitoring, Faculty monitoring, and student perceptions
    • Departmental review
    • Student feedback
    • Employer feedback
    • Quality assurance of Master’s, M. Phil and PhD degree programs
    • Subject review
    • Institutional assessment
    • Program specifications
    • Qualification framework

Memberships

The QEC, Government College University, Faisalabad has following memberships with National and International Quality Networks:

1. The Talloires Network
2. QEC Network (Network of Quality Enhancement Cells of Pakistani Universities).
3. APQN
4. Membership of Quality Assurance Agencies of the Islamic World (IQA)
5. Pakistan Network of Quality Assurance in Higher Education (PNQAHE).

Accreditation

The program of College of Law, Engineering, Pharmacy and Education are accredited with their respective professional councils and these professional bodies visit as per their schedule. The current status of the Accreditation is as under:

Name of Councils	Total Number of Programs	Total Number of Accredited Programs	Total No. of In process Programs
Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)	2	2	0
Pakistan Bar Council (PBC)	2	2	0
Pharmacy Council of Pakistan (PCP)	1	1	0
National Council for Tibb (NCT)	1	1	0
National Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (NACTE)	5	5	0
National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC)	5	1	4 (IT, CS, SE & Bioinformatics)
National Business Education Accreditation Council (NBEAC)	2	2	0
National Technology Council (NTC)	3	3	0
National Agriculture Education (NAEAC)	2	2	0
Pakistan Council for Architects and Town Planners (PCATP)	1	0	1
Total	24	19	05

QEC Ranking by Quality Assurance, HEC

Year	Scores
2013	93% Scores
2014	73% Scores
2015	92% Scores
2016	92% Scores

Awareness seminars organized by QEC

1. One Day seminar on “Role of QEC and importance of Sustainable Development Goals at HEIs was organized on by QEC (June 13, 2024)
2. QEC Organized Two Days Training Workshop on “Preparation of University Portfolio Report 2023-24 (February 22-23, 2024)
3. QEC Organized Workshop On ‘Preparation of Self-Assessment Report & Course Files for Affiliated Colleges (November 28-30, 2023)
4. Two days awareness seminar on “how to fill online Self-Assessment Proformas” was conducted by QEC (June 16, 2023)
5. QEC conducted Two-day Preparation of University Portfolio Report 2022-23 (May 31, 2023)
6. QEC organized One Day Training Workshop on “Preparation of Self-Assessment Report” (November 16, 2022)

Contributions and Participations QEC

1. Participated as Resource Person in one day seminar on Quality Assurance (26 June 2024)
2. Participation in International Symposium on Importance of Internationalization and Sustainability in Quality Assurance” (6/3/2024)
3. Participation in the two days 3rd International Conference on “Sustainable Development Goals” (25-26 April 2024)
4. Attended 3 days 4th International Conference of Pakistan Network of Quality Assurance in Higher Education t Islamabad (5-7 March 2024)
5. Attended one day workshop for Sustainable Pathways in Pakistani Universities (16 October 2023)
6. Participate in webinar on “Lessons Learned during Covid” (5-7 September 2023)
7. Participated as External Reviewer (8 august, 2023)
8. 2nd Two Days International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals (12-13 July 2023)
9. QEC participated Research ethics and quality Assurance: Challenges and Solutions (23 May 2023)
10. QEC participated 2nd workshop on “On Campus Sustainability of Energy-Water-Environment Nexus (19 December 2022)
11. QEC participated in One Day workshop on ” Quality and Governance in the Higher Education Institutions” (19 December 2022)