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Welcome! DepED NIR QAD: Driven by Quality. Committed to Learners.
About QAD
About QAD
The Quality Assurance Division (QAD) of the Department of Education – Negros Island Region is committed to upholding standards of excellence in basic education through rigorous quality assurance, compliance monitoring, and standards validation across all public and private schools in the region.
Guided by national policies and frameworks, QAD ensures that educational programs, institutions, and support systems meet established benchmarks of quality, relevance, and effectiveness. It spearheads the review and endorsement of permits, recognitions, and certifications, and facilitates regional quality assurance initiatives in collaboration with Schools Division Offices (SDOs).
SOUVENIR is the flagship quality assurance initiative of the DepEd Negros Island Region’s Quality Assurance Division (QAD). It represents the region’s commitment to harmonize, elevate, and showcase the quality assurance systems and practices across all 21 Schools Division Offices.
Anchored on the principles of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement, SOUVENIR serves as a unifying platform for standardizing tools, strengthening field validation, and elevating quality assurance benchmarks.
More than a program, SOUVENIR is a movement—highlighting best practices, building collaborative excellence, and sustaining a culture where every validation leaves a mark of quality, and every process is a meaningful contribution to the learner's journey.
One Department of Education's Quality Policy
One Department of Education's Quality Policy
The Department of Education is committed to provide learners with quality basic education that is accessible, inclusive, liberating through:
Proactive leadership
Shared governance
Evidenced-based policies, standards and programs
Responsive and relevant curricula
Highly competent and committed officials, and teaching and non-teaching personnel
An enabling learning environment
The Department upholds the highest standards of conduct and performance to fulfill stakeholders’ needs and expectations by adhering to constitutional mandates, statutory, and regulatory requirements, and sustains client satisfaction through continuous improvement of the Quality Management System
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