Quality Assurance

GNC exists to provide quality training, education, and high-end customer service within Ireland's local and extended community using the ethos that all members of society, regardless of circumstance, are entitled to quality education, training, and access to quality, well-paid jobs.

• We deliver further education and training services of the highest quality.

• We prioritise our customers's needs and wants.

• We commit to equality of opportunity.

• We provide opportunities for the personal development of all learners, tutors, and staff.

• We are a caring and responsive social enterprise.

• We provide services to our local and extended community in Ireland.

Glin National College Values Statement

This Quality Policy statement outlines Glin National College's management of quality and standards. GNC's quality assurance complies with the Qualifications and Quality Assurance Act 2012 (QQI) and the PHECC Awarding Bodies Educational Standards. Glin National College acknowledges that it is ultimately responsible for the academic standards of awards made in its name and for its learners' quality of learning experiences. GNC's quality assurance policy has the following goals:

• Develop a quality assurance culture that permeates all parts of Glin National College, benefiting the learners, staff, and wider community.

• Ensure that Glin National College's strategic planning, development, quality assurance, and improvement mutually inform and support each other.

• Make sure that appropriate and transparent governance and management structures are in place to ensure continuous progress in imposing and assisting first-class quality assurance and development measures.

• Implement and maintain procedures referring to programme approval, tracking and evaluation.

• Consider recommendations of unbiased, independent external peers and organisations, particularly external examiners, professional, statutory and regulatory bodies and external assessors.

• Accumulated quantitative and qualitative information and conducted periodic surveys to get feedback from key stakeholder groups for quality improvement and policymaking, including learners, employers, and other stakeholders.

• Maintain Glin National College in good standing with its legislative obligations and make the organisation a model centre of excellence for learners.

• Cultivate our interest in seeking creative, learning-centred and future-focused teaching and governance approaches in further education and training.

GNC will pledge to continuously review the Quality Assurance Policy to ensure it is appropriate, consistent and fit for purpose.

Policy Statements for Management & Staff

Link to Glin National College Employee Online Handbook 

Learner & Stakeholder Information 

1. Glin National College promotes a culture of quality in its further education and training provision supported by a documented quality framework and a published procedural manual, which allows for the continuous review and enhancement of quality procedures. The Quality Framework enables Glin National College to meet the best national guidelines/standards and the regulatory provisions of the awards certification bodies Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC), SOLAS - For Safe Pass and the Private Security Authority (PSA) Guidelines.

2. Glin National College also promotes a verifiable system of implementing this policy, measuring it through periodic evaluations and keeping it updated at all times through a continuous improvement process as depicted below:

3. Scope of the Quality Assurance System: All activities within Glin National College are subject to Quality Assurance procedures. All staff and tutors are vital in managing and implementing quality assurance procedures and assume collective responsibility across various functions. The Academic Standards Quality Officer manages the quality system. The Academic Council is responsible for approving and monitoring all quality assurance procedures. The Voluntary Management Board of NCU CLG is responsible for compliance with legal obligations and commercial interests.

4. The Quality Assurance Framework at Glin National College: Glin National College recognises that quality assurance's efficient and transparent operation is essential to learner and stakeholder confidence. The organisation must achieve its long-term vision. The regulatory and statutory framework for quality assurance procedures described in this document is derived from QQI and The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) quality assurance policies guidelines and the general national standards. The following five principles underpin the development, implementation and continuous improvement of quality assurance procedures at Glin National College:

Ongoing monitoring will examine the statistical information generated from our current systems on our QQI, PHECC, SOLAS Safe Pass, and Glin National College certified programmes. This practice will allow us to spot and identify any areas of provision that meet or do not meet the required standards. The following quality measures will help determine whether our outcomes-related objectives are accomplished. Some of the relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are as follows.

Academic

Business

This process will produce a set of findings for the Academic Council to review. The Training & Business Development Manager, Academic Standards Quality Officer, Programme Development Officer, and Tutors will be responsible for self-monitoring.

Policies & Procedures & Related Services

Stakeholders typically refer to anyone who supports the welfare and success of a school or institute and its learners. These stakeholders include board members, administrators, tutors, staff members, learners, families, awarding bodies, community members, government departments, local businesses, business leaders, and elected officials such as city councillors and state representatives.

The self-evaluation findings are analysed and available for the external review cycle, which connects to and supports it. The distinction between ongoing internal self-monitoring and formal self-evaluation is typically in frequency and scale. Self-evaluation has a broad, systemic focus and is carried out at specified intervals. Internal self-monitoring within Glin Nation College is ongoing and typically focuses on the following indicators.