Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC)

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QEC at Lahore Leads University is responsible to meet the quality and standard of Higher Education of Pakistan by supervising the provided facilities, conducting Internal & External reviews, Surveys, Self-Assessment Process, Institutional Performance Evaluation and other quality assurance activities of academic departments.

Introduction

The Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) at Lahore Leads University established in 1st meeting held on 14th July 2011 as per directions of Higher Education Commission and resides at the main campus Kamahan Lidhar Road. QEC at Lahore Leads University is responsible to meet the quality and standard of Higher Education of Pakistan by supervising the provided facilities, conducting Internal & External reviews, Surveys, Self-Assessment Process, Institutional Performance Evaluation and other quality assurance activities of academic departments. Our QEC Staff also engage in national/International levels seminars/conferences relevant to Quality Assurance in Higher Education. At present the QEC involve in improving the quality of education have tended to rely on National and International Educational Policy reforms that build on rich research findings through linking educational inputs to the student’s achievement and it will ultimately impact the score of a university in the Quality Assessment issued by HEC.

Vice Chancellor’s Message

Quality Assurance is our Top Priority

Without education, no social, health, economic and political progress is possible. Investing in education is therefore essential for the future of the world. Through Quality assurance Lahore Leads University carries out quality management and methods to help make sure certain quality standards are fulfilled. We pay special importance to ensure that Lahore Leads University develops and performs in line with the curriculum and standards defined by HEC. These standards are assessed both internally and externally to ensure that we follow quality assurance guidelines. These assessments can involve school self-evaluation, external evaluation, evaluation of teachers, school leaders and student assessment to make sure they’re reaching their targets. 

Lahore Leads University has a definite quality assurance management plan to ensure that it follows the curriculum guidelines, help students flourish and deliver good-quality teaching and learning to keep pace with the market recommendation.

Directors Message

A premier institution like Lahore Leads University can only achieve true excellence when it deeply understands its past milestones and clearly maps out its future trajectory. To uphold and elevate academic quality and standards in higher education, our institution must remain deeply professional, inherently creative, and continuously innovative. The initiatives driven by the Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) at Lahore Leads University are never a mere exercise in compliance. Instead, they serve as a powerful vehicle for institutional transformation and continuous improvement. Our core directive is to seamlessly weave our institutional Vision, Mission, and Core Values into the daily fabric of our academic operations because sustainable success naturally follows when these values are genuinely implemented, closely monitored, and rigorously assessed.

The primary purpose of establishing the QEC at Lahore Leads University is to ensure the strategic dissemination of information regarding contemporary quality practices across curriculum design, research excellence, examination standards, and modern assessment methodologies. To achieve this, our Consultative Working Groups take direct responsibility for curriculum development and its administration, creating modern pathways that drive holistic development across all domains of erudition, corporate realms, and public service. These groups also prepare robust frameworks to cultivate a serene environment conducive to learning, skill building, research, and innovation, while simultaneously strengthening examination and evaluation procedures to guarantee absolute transparency and accountability. This cooperative framework infuses a deep sense of ownership among our colleagues, respects individual differences, and builds true harmony at the inter-departmental level.

By integrating these vital programs under the unified umbrella of the QEC, Lahore Leads University does not just focus on maintaining an exceptional faculty, a dedicated administrative team, and a brilliant student body. We aim to actively excel in pioneering research, stellar academic performance, emerging interdisciplinary studies, and integrated strategic planning. Our ultimate journey is perfectly aligned with our vision to emerge as a world-class seat of higher learning that produces empowered and responsible leadership. As the custodians of this seat of learning, our mission is to equip our students with the precise education and skills they need for personal development, nation building, and community service. Guided by our foundational values, including a commitment to excellence, honesty, integrity, cross-cultural harmony, and strict acquiescence to law, the QEC stands fully dedicated to preparing resilient individuals capable of meeting both contemporary and future challenges in a highly dynamic world.

Dr. Syed Shahid Hussain
Director, Quality Enhancement Cell
Lahore Leads University
[email protected]

Vision and Mission

To emerge as a seat of higher learning producing empowered and responsible leadership through holistic development of individuals in all domains of erudition, nation building, corporate realms and public service.

Creation of a serene environment conducive to learning, skill building, research and innovation, preparing individuals capable of meeting contemporary and future challenges in a highly dynamic mode.

Core Values

  • Commitment to excellence
  • Honesty and integrity
  • Transparency and accountability
  • Respect for Individual
  • Cross Culture
  • Harmony
  • Acquiescence to Law
  • Service to Community

For Correspondence

Name: Dr. Syed Shahid Hussain

Designation: Director QEC 

Email Address: [email protected]

Phone No: +92-300-8116977

Name: Mishal Fatima

Email Address: [email protected]

  • The quality enhancement is to be headed by a Dean reporting directly to Vice Chancellor. He is to be the correspondent with the outside bodies.
  • QEC is responsible for promoting public confidence that the quality and standards of the award of degrees are enhanced and safeguard.
  • QEC is responsible for the review of academic affiliations with other institutions in terms of effective management of standards and quality programs.
  • QEC is responsible for defining clear and explicit standards as points of reference to the reviews to be carried out. It should also help the employees to know as to what they could expect from candidates.
  • QEC is responsible to develop qualifications framework by setting out the attributes and abilities that can be expected from the holder of a qualification, i.e. Bachelors with Honors, Master’s, M.Phil., Doctoral.
  • QEC is responsible to develop program specifications. These are standards set of information clarifying what knowledge, understanding, skills and other attributes a student will have developed on successfully completing a specific program.
  • QEC is responsible to develop quality assurance process and methods of evaluation to affirm that the quality of provision and standards of awards are being maintained and to foster curriculum, subject and staff development, together with research and other scholarly activities.
  • QEC is responsible to ensure that the university’s quality assurance procedure is designed to fit in with the arrangements in place nationally for maintaining and improving the quality of Higher Education

IQC team comprising the following

As decided by the Commission in 9th meeting held on 26 November 2005. The quality of Masters and PhD (level 7 & 8 programs) are peer reviewed keeping in view the minimum criteria of HEC in order to enhance their quality to make them internationally compatible.
 
Pro-formas for Program Review.

– Forms in Document (*.doc) Format​

Forms (template) for Compliance of Program Review.

​- Individual Forms in Document (*.doc) format