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 the education quality assurance, the measurement and assessment of learning and the national qualifications framework; Including the monitoring and evaluation of education, science and sports sector.
- Interpret the policies, regulations, party resolutions, orders, laws, ministry’s direction, strategies and plans into its development plan;
- Consider to create and improve legal instruments to manage the operations on education quality assurance, measurement, assessment of learning and national qualifications framework; Including the monitoring and evaluation of education, science and sports sector; and also, to disseminate to the relevant parties;
- Strengthen up the capacities for education, science and sports sector’s human resource on education quality assurance, measurement, assessment of learning, national qualifications framework, monitoring and evaluation by coordinating with concerned stakeholders;
- Coordinate with concerned bodies to conduct the internal and external quality assessment of institutions and programs levels compliance with the approved standards for the quality improvement and quality accreditation in all levels, sub-sectors;
- Conduct the measurement and assessment of learning for early childhood and general education according to the predefined standards for national, regional and international levels;
- Create, disseminate the reports and encourage the application of results of measurement and assessment of learning into the education development;
- Manage and promote the testing of learners in vocational and higher education according to national qualifications framework and the predefined standards, including the recognition of prior experience and learning;
- Manage the educational qualifications for education, science and sports sector and others;
- Develop the items, and manage the item bank for general education;
- Coordinate with concerned bodies to issue the graduate examination items in general education;
- Consider, summarize and report the results of monitoring and evaluation the implementation of education, science and sports sector development plans, the implementation of annual and academic year education, science and sports administrators’ conference’s resolutions;
- Conduct the review, monitoring and evaluation with the development partners for the implementation of annual performance of the education, science and sports sector;
- Conduct the coordination and technical cooperation with international agencies and others both of public and private, including cooperation with regional/international networks of quality assurance, qualifications framework, learning assessment and quality monitoring based on the approval of Minister;
- Create and develop the database on education quality assurance, measurement, assessment of learning, national qualifications framework, monitoring and evaluation;
- Conduct the relation and coordination with offices, line departments, department equivalent bodies, 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.
- Propose to Minister its plans and budgets to develop the work under its responsibilities;
- Propose to Minister to consider the approval, improvement and creation the legislation under its responsibilities 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;
- 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 and intellectual properties under its supervision;
- Perform other tasks assigned by Minister;
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