Follow-up 

Follow-up reports must serve as a useful tool for making decisions that enable improving a degree through regular, internal assessment by analysing the values of indicators linked to academic results, student satisfaction and teaching and research staff satisfaction, etc. 

The purpose of a follow-up report is therefore to diagnose the reality of a degree and a centre and present actions for improvement. 

Accreditation

Accreditation is the establishment, based on a self-assessment report and a site visit, that the study programme is being delivered as planned according to validation. All recognized degree courses must undergo accreditation within six years of validation (or previous accreditation), in the case of bachelor’s and doctoral degrees, and four years in the case of master’s degrees.

Centre Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS)

The collegiate organization for the management and control of the internal quality system at your centre is the Quality Committee, which is responsible for ensuring the implementation and effectiveness of IQAS, developing and reviewing quality policies and objectives, approving assessment reports (accreditation and follow-up) and ensuring the coordination and coherence of actions for improvement in study programmes in the area. The master’s degree coordinator is an ex officio member of the Quality Committee of their centre. 

Your task consists in...

• Analysing data and indicators of the degree of which you are the coordinator and identifying what actions for improvement need implementing to achieve the quality standards established by UPF. This analysis is performed every two years in the follow-up report and every four in the accreditation self-report, in accordance with the instructions received from the Quality Technical Office (OTQ) attached to the Projects, Studies and Quality Unit (UPEQ). 
• Acting as a member of the Internal Evaluation Committee (CAI) when the study programme for which you are responsible requires accrediting. The CAI undertakes the task of doing the accreditation self-report and participating at the site visit by the External Evaluation Committee (CAE). 
• Being a member of the Quality Committee at your centre and sitting on it.