Problems of Quality Assurance On Campus

Dr. Khalid Arab

Administrative and Human Sciences College

Definitely, the King Saud University (KSU) will face up a number of problems in its endeavor to have top-quality deliverables. I will shed light on the major problems that are summarized as follows:

- An inaccurate writing up of a college or a department  mission and vision

- Anti-change and anti-development activities

- A variety  of performance indicators with inefficient timeframes to achieve them on the ground

- Different understanding of quality application and understanding on campus amongst various people

- Heavy responsibilities shouldered by the quality assurance officials

- Difficulty of forging a quality assurance team in a college or a department

- Lack of confidence between a person, in charge of monitoring an application and a person – in charge of carrying out the application

-Difficulty of interlinking the development plan and quality assurance criteria

- Lack of expertise exchange amongst quality assurance monitors themselves

- Asking continually about how to document performance indicators and criteria

- Assigning faculty members and staff who are not members of development team

- Absence of a regulation for correspondence and communication.

Due to the large problems, I would like to choose the first and second problems to comment on. The first: An inaccurate writing up of a college or a department  mission and vision. The KSU mission and vision integration should mirror activities relevant to a college or a department activities. This is the only way to achieve the vision-mission integration.

The second problem: Anti-change and anti-development activities is a phenomena all over the world. However, officials should listen to the other opinion carefully and should study them objectively. This helps iron out anxiety over new things and give a push to renewal process. This conduces to having a high-efficient deliverables at the end.