An Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) workshop was organized by the Self-Assessment Committee (SAC) of Department of Pharmacy, BRAC University at the department premises on 18 August, 2016. The SAC team of Department of Pharmacy includes Dr. Eva Rahman Kabir, Chairperson (current charge), Dr. M. Zulfiquer Hossain, Associate Professor and Dr. Sharmind Neelotpol, Assistant Professor of Department of Pharmacy, BRAC University. All the faculty members of the Department of Pharmacy, BRAC University participated in this event. Professor Md. Tafazzal Hussain, Ph.D., Director, IQAC was also present at the event.
IQAC workshop is organized as part of Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) of Quality Assurance Unit (QAI) of University Grants Commission (UGC) and it is funded by World Bank.
The workshop was conducted by Dr. M. Zulfiquer Hossain, where he emphasized the importance of self-assessment in our academic career. He started his session by introducing the participants with the self-assessment concept. In the workshop, he discussed about the importance of team building and mapping tools for curriculum self-assessment. A debating session titled ‘Early bird may get the worm, but second mouse gets the cheese’ was also arranged for the participants as part of the activities of the workshop.
In future, the SAC team of Department of Pharmacy has plans for conducting a survey program as part of the institutional Quality Assurance which will include students, academic staff/faculty members, non-academic staff, alumni as well as the employer.