Health Sciences QA Cell

• Coordination of all QA related activities in the Faculty
• Monitor progress of QA activities initiated by the Cell/Departments.
• Share good practices across Departments
• Obtain feedback from students/internal and external staff and other stakeholders on services / products, including the facilitation of student feedback surveys on day schools, peers, courses, online courses, laboratory sessions.
• Provide analyzed results on feedback surveys to the Departments to facilitate incorporation of relevant findings to improve the performance.
• Develop Faculty specific QA tools, guidelines and manuals
• Conduct QA related awareness programmes among staff members.
• Develop relationships and liaise with other QA cells of the University to share best practices
• Collaborate with national and international agencies and universities on QA activities in consultation with the IQAU.
• Prepare an annual work plan and obtain approval from the Board of Management of the IQAU, before the commencement of a calendar year
• Report regularly on the QA activities at the Faculty Board meetings and at the IQAU meetings
• Facilitate the implementation of QA reviews / monitoring follow-up action in the Departments

Annual Action Plan

• QA Action Plan 2023
• QA Action Plan 2022 Progress
• QA Action Plan 2022
• QA Action Plan 2021 Progress
• QA Action Plan 2021
• QA Action Plan 2020 Progress
• QA Action Plan 2020
• QA Action Plan 2019 Progress
• QA Action Plan 2019
• QA Action Plan 2018 Progress
• QA Action Plan 2018

Staff Development Activities

• Exel@FHS – Capacity Enhancement Training Workshop Series
• Staff Talk – Workshop Series
• Awareness Programs on Quality Assurance in ODL/Faculty Academic Activities

QA Research

• The Validity of the Quality Assessment Tools used at The Open University of Sri Lanka – 2021.  Click here
• Students’ Drop-Out Rates in Health Sciences Degree Programmes at The Open University Of Sri Lanka – 2022  Click here

Programme Review

• Programme review is in progress for following degree programmes:

Bachelor of Science Honours in Nursing
Bachelor of Pharmacy Honours
Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science Honours

Students Feedback Forms

• Day School
• Lab classes/field visits
• Course Units Conducted
• Online Course Evaluation Form
• Needs survey from prospective students
• Needs survey from postgraduate students

Evaluation forms for Quality Assurance of OUSL’s activities

• Monitoring of Academic performance
• Peer evaluation form

Feedback Forms for Evaluate Workshops – FHs

• Feedback form – Workshop/Training

Examination Formats

• Examination paper Header page
• FHS Moderator’s feedback form

Standard Operating Procedures

• Standard Operation Procedure for Implementing an Institutional Review (IR) and Programme Reviews (PR)