Piloting the Quality Assurance Resource Center
Recognizing the need to improve the declining quality of education, the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) in collaboration with the Department of Education & Literacy implemented the revised scheme ‘Quality Assurance Resource Center (QARC)’ last year. QARC piloted a quality assurance system in education that aims to enable support to good schooling and learning practices in both the public & private sectors of education.
Key interventions of QARC comprised the development of quality assessment system, and preparation and pilot testing of school categorization criteria. The major activities undertaken during the project implementation comprised school quality audits, NGO assessments, research and capacity building of academic staff of partner schools details of which are presented below. Linkages were also developed with different non governmental agencies, universities and educational institutions for information sharing and exchange of learning. |