Mandate
Functions
Rights
Ministerial Agreement (LA)
Ministerial Agreement (EN)
Mandate
The Department of Education Quality Assurance has the abbreviation as “DEQA” is an administrative and academical unit under Ministry of Education and Sports, which has is responsible to Minister as a secretariat about the management and development of Legislations, Education Quality Assurance and National Qualifications Framework.
Functions
- Interpret the policies, regulations, party resolutions, orders, laws, ministry’s direction, strategies and plans into its development plan;
- Consider and summarize the plan of creating/improving the laws and legislations under laws for Education and Sports sectors in each period;
- Consider and improve legal instruments to manage the operations on legislation, education quality assurance and national qualifications framework;
- Consider, provide the comments and inspect the alignment of laws and legislations under laws of Education sector and others;
- Coordinate with concerned bodies to develop and revise the laws and legislations under laws of Education sector;
- Strengthen up the capacities for education and sports sector’s human resource on legislations, education quality assurance and national qualifications framework by coordinating with concerned stakeholders;
- Test and evaluate the Learners learning outcome in all levels, sub-sectors according to the predefined standards by coordinating with concerned stakeholders;
- Coordinate with concerned bodies to conduct the external quality assessment of institutions and programs levels compliance with the approved standards for the quality improvement and quality accreditation;
- Manage the Educational Qualifications for Education sector and others;
- Conduct the coordination and technical cooperation with international agencies and others both of public and private, including cooperation with regional/international quality assurance and qualifications framework networks based on the approval of Minister.
- Consider and propose the publishing of the legislations and guidelines related to the Education Quality Assurance and National Qualifications Framework;
- Conduct the publicity and dissemination of the legislations related to the Education Quality Assurance and National Qualifications Framework, including the coordinating with concerned stakeholders on the publicity and dissemination of the legislations under education and sports sectors;
- Develop and manage database on legislation, education quality assurance and national qualifications framework;
- Conduct the relation and coordination with offices, line departments, department equivalent bodies, institutes, centers, international agencies and others both of public and private based on the assignment from above;
- Inspect, monitor, evaluate and report the activities in certain period; and
- Perform the other tasks assigned by Minister.
Rights
- Propose to Minister its plans and budgets to develop the work under its responsibilities;
- Propose to Minister to consider the approval, improvement, creation of the legislations on education and sports or repealing the irrelevant one;
- Propose to Minister to consider the approval, establishment or dissolution the division under its supervision;
- Propose to Minister to consider the recruitment, allocation, move, appointment and replacement the staff under its supervision according to the laws and regulations;
- Propose the praise, implement various policies for those who perform well and discipline staffs and civil servants under its supervision according to laws and regulations;
- Manage and utilize the budgets, materials, assets, funds and other types of aid funds based on the approval of Minister;
- Convene the meeting, discussion and learn lessons exchange about the legislative issues, education quality assurance and Lao qualifications framework according to its role;
- Implement grant-aid projects, bilateral and international cooperation projects based on the approval of Minister.
- Propose to Minister to protect and manage the human resources, assets, educational and sports related intellectual properties;
- Perform other tasks assigned by Minister.
Ministerial Agreement (LA)
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Ministerial Agreement (EN)
Directors General
Panya CHANTHAVONG
Director General
Latsamy THAMMAVONGSA
Deputy Director General
Phonmany SILIPHONG
Deputy Director General
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Deputy Director General
- Consider, compile and create work development plans within the Department;
- To be the secretary, to coordinate the invitation and protocol tasks of the department and to coordinate with other parties both inside and outside department;
- Manage documents, make copies, send documents and notify news within the department;
- Manage accounts, financial budgets, use of assets, vehicles, equipment, etc. within the department;
- Create the budget plans, manage the budget utilization, monitor and summarize the implementations in each periods;
- Consider establishment or disbandment of the Department’s organizational unit;
- Consider the Term of reference and positioning of Department;
- Consider and implement the performance appraisal of Department’s staffs referred to regulations;
- Consider the application of the welfare policy, appointment, allocation, transferring, voluntary resignation, retirement, awards, discipline and dismissal from a position for department’s staffs;
- Relate, Cooperate and Coordinate on academic issues with other parties both inside and outside department;
- Summarize and report on the department’s activity plans by weekly, monthly, quarterly, first half-year, last half-year, annually, 3 years and 5 years;
- Coordinate with other divisions of department on tasks implementation;
- Inspect, Monitor and Evaluate including summarizing and reporting on the division’s tasks to the Director General and above level in each periods;
- Perform the other assigned tasks.
Chanthavy VIPHAVANH
Head of Division
Ittiphon DUANGPHIMVONG
Deputy Head of Division
Phanmanythip KUSONSAVATH
Academic
Watthanar PHOMMALUNGSY
Academic
Adeng MANIVONG
Academic
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Academic
- Compile plans for creation and amendment of the laws, decrees and legislation under the law of the education and sports sector;
Create a plan of activities related to legislation in each periods;
- Research and propose the creation, amendment, suspension and cancellation of laws and legislation under the law of the education and sports sector;
- To consider, provide comments and review the legal compliance against the drafted law and the legislation under the law as proposed by the education and sports sector;
- Research and provide comments on the draft law and legislation under the law of other sectors as assigned by the above;
- Encourage and monitor the creation and amendment of the laws and legislation under the law of the education and sports sector in each periods;
- Research and consider drafted Feasibility Study Report and Impact Assessment Report for creation and amendment of the laws and legislation under the law of the education and sports sector;
- Create assessment tools for accordance in implementation of the laws and legislation under the law of the education and sports sector;
- Strengthen the capacity about legislation by coordinating with related stakeholders;
- Coordinate with each office, departments, equivalent agencies, centers, educational institutions and related ministries in creation and amendment of the laws and legislation under the law of the education and sports sector;
- Cooperate and exchange information on the legislation development both domestic and international as agreement from the above;
- Coordinate with other divisions of department on tasks implementation;
- Inspect, Monitor and Evaluate including summarizing and reporting on the division’s tasks to the Director General and above level in each periods;
- Perform the other assigned tasks.
Souksavanh SOUNMANYVONG
Head of Division
Khamsavang SILOUANGLATH
Deputy Head of Division
Vilayvieng THOUMMA
Deputy Head of Division
Chansouda SIVANHKHAM
Academic
Tadam SENPHILAVONGSA
Academic
Sysaket OUDOMSOUK
Academic
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Academic
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Academic
- Create a plan of activities related to Quality Assurance for Early childhoods and General Education in each periods;
- Create and improve the standards, indicators, criterion, guidelines and other regulations on Quality Assurance for Early Childhoods and General Education;
- Strengthen the Provincial, Capital Department of Education and Sports and District, City Education and Sports Bureau to be able to organize quality assurance work at their management levels;
- Strengthen the external assessors for early childhood and general education;
- Monitor, encourage and promote the quality assurance work of early childhood and general education institutions, District, City Education and Sports Bureau, and Provincial, Capital Department of Education and Sports;
- Research and propose the results of external assessment of early childhood and general education institutions according to local authorities reports for endorsement and issue educational quality certificates;
- Create a database system for educational quality assurance of early childhood and general education institutions;
- Summarize the implementation of education quality assurance work of the Provincial, Capital Department of Education and Sports and the District, City Education and Sports Bureau in each period;
- Coordinate with other divisions of department on tasks implementation;
- Inspect, Monitor and Evaluate including summarizing and reporting on the division’s tasks to the Director General and above level in each periods;
- Perform the other assigned tasks.
Sisackda BOOLOM
Head of Division
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Deputy Head of Division
Viengsavan KEOTA
Academic
Donbandan CHOMSYHA
Academic
Somchai LOUANGPANYA
Academic
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Academic
- Create a plan of activities related to the management of educational qualifications and quality assurance in vocational education and higher education;
- Develop and improve legislation related to the National Qualifications Framework and quality assurance in vocational education and higher education, both public and private, at institutional and programme levels in coordination with relevant parties;
- Coordinate with ministries, educational institutions, and various sectors to improve the learning outcomes of each course, programme, and qualification level to align with the standards of the qualification framework at each level;
- Monitor, encourage, promote and coordinate with relevant parties in implementation of the Internal Quality Assessment and External Quality Assessment for vocational education and higher education institutions, both public and private;
- Research and propose the assessment results for endorsement and issue quality certificates for vocational and higher education;
- Summarize the implementation of quality assurance work at vocational and higher education institutions in each period;
- Research and organize the National Qualifications Framework Committee’s program to integrate the ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework;
- Liaise and cooperate in linking the quality assurance system and national qualifications framework with the regional and international;
- Test and evaluate the learning outcomes of learners according to regional and international standards;
- Issue the certificates of educational qualifications from abroad;
- Create a centralized database system for registering qualifications, information related to graduates or training who have received qualifications in secondary education, vocational education, and higher education.
- Coordinate with other divisions of department on tasks implementation;
- Inspect, Monitor and Evaluate including summarizing and reporting on the division’s tasks to the Director General and above level in each periods;
- Perform the other assigned tasks.
Souphanhxay SINGTHAMMAVONG
Head of Division
Monika THIPPHALANGSY
Deputy Head of Division
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Deputy Head of Division
Dr. Somchai SONGSAMAIVONG
Academic
Subaki VONGSETTHA
Academic
Bongdouangchanh PORMUA
Academic
Katay PHANTHAVONG
Academic
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Academic
- Research and create a plan to publicize, monitor and evaluate the laws and regulations under the law, research findings on quality assurance and the national qualifications framework of the education and sports sector and related parties;
- Copy and store the laws and regulations of the education and sports sectors and other related sectors as research data;
- Publicize laws, legislation, research findings on quality assurance, and the national qualifications framework of the education and sports sectors and other related sectors, as well as collect the publicizing information;
- Monitor and evaluate the implementation of laws, legislation, quality assurance, and the National Qualifications Framework;
- Compile laws and general regulations of the education and sports sectors for official gazette, propose to publish, distribute, publicize on websites, social media and other forms as appropriate;
- Create, improve and manage information systems on legislation, quality assurance and the national qualifications framework;
- Collaborate technically on publicity, monitoring and evaluation work in conjunction with relevant parties;
- Coordinate with other divisions of department on tasks implementation;
- Inspect, Monitor and Evaluate including summarizing and reporting on the division’s tasks to the Director General and above level in each periods;
- Perform the other assigned tasks.
Davee VUEWASOUA
Head of Division
Xaysomchith PASEUTHSAK
Deputy Head of Division
Khonekham DOUANGMANY
Academic
Sengsouly DINDAVONG
Academic
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Academic
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Academic
Studying Abroad
Khinnithak SENGBANDITH
Academic (China)
Ladsamee KONGCHANSAVATH
Academic (South Korea)
Toulee LIYEPIAPOR
Academic (South Korea)