To ensure the development and sustenance of internationally acclaimed quality standards and practices for NUMS’ Higher Education that benefit and live up to the stakeholders’ needs and expectations.

To continuously evaluate the NUMS’ Higher Education Quality Enhancement mechanism to make any required improvements and to ascertain that the quality assurance procedures and mechanisms are efficient, effective, and up-to-date to profit the diverse array of stakeholders and fulfil their needs.

1. To support the University’s vision in order to develop an effective learning environment by continuous quality assurance, evaluation and enhancement with regard to teaching, research and management.
2. To facilitate all NUMS’ Constituent and Affiliated Medical, Dental, Nursing, Veterinary Colleges and Specialty Institutes to build their own Quality Assurance (QA) mechanisms and form Local QECs (L-QECs) in compliance with all the relevant accreditation bodies like HEC, PM&DC, PVMC, PNC, CPSP, PEC, etc.
3. To arrange, coordinate and facilitate national and international training workshops and other related continuous professional development endeavours for all the Constituent, Affiliated, Specialty Institutes and University management to undertake Self-Assessment and Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) and External Quality Assurance (EQA).
4. To represent NUMS at national and international Quality Assurance and Accreditation forums and moots.
5. To acquire membership, certification and endorsement of the national and international accreditation bodies like QAA-UK, APQN, INQAAHE, CHEA, TEQSA etc. for NUMS and existing and new programs of its departments.
6. To develop customized Quality Assurance resources as per national and international quality standards for medical and social sciences and make them accessible to all NUMS’ Constituent and Affiliated Colleges and Institutes.
7. To ensure continuation of professional education and in-service capacity building of faculty and management, in order to boost the quality of teaching and learning for faculty and researchers of NUMS and for augmenting the quality of service and deliverables by NUMS’ management.
8. To develop NUMS’ Quality Accreditation and Attestation Cell under Quality Assurance directorate.
9. To prepare NUMS’ Quality policies, code of ethics and standards, regulations, guidelines, criteria for Internal and External Quality Assurance and for the local quality enhancement cells for NUMS constituents and affiliates.
10. To devise an effective students’ feedback system for improving the evaluation and review process focusing on quality of curricula, learning and teaching methodologies, student learning outcome assessment.

We, Quality Assurance directorate at NUMS are the main body, which collaborates with all our stakeholders in constituent/affiliated colleges and specialty institutes to develop and augment the Quality Assurance system at NUMS. Our Directorate aims to work towards developing and ensuring that the quality assurance mechanisms with the goal to live up to the expectations and fulfil the needs of the stakeholders.

We have recently established a Quality Assurance Collaborative, which includes the QA focal persons/representatives from all our constituent/affiliated colleges and institutes. This body works to ensure coordination with and between all our representatives to constantly update and restructure the quality assurance process including the development, implementation, dissemination and continuous assessment of the quality assurance standards.

The functioning of QEC is equally as beneficent to all stakeholders as it is to NUMS as a whole and consequently, QEC hopes that the stakeholders take ownership of the guidelines devised by the directorate and make sure the proposed improvements are implemented in their respective spheres. It is also expected of the stakeholders that once, we provide a set of quality maintenance mechanism, it is sustainable and the quality standards will not fall below the QAD’s established criteria.

• We strongly believe in a facilitating approach towards all our stakeholders and ensuring transparency in our quality assurance system with the aim of strengthening our relationship with all our stakeholders.

• We encourage participation of all our stakeholders in the development of quality assurance processes and policies, which caters to the needs and expectations of our stakeholders.

• We recognise the need of continuous interaction and communication with all our stakeholders with regard to formulation, distribution and adherence to quality assurance mechanism.