The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA) and the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) Quality Assurance Committee held a three-day in-house training on Asean University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) Program Assessment (Tier 1) from 25-27 October 2023 at Hotel del Rio, Molo, Iloilo City.

Around 30 participants from the four colleges in UPV attended the activity. The training aimed to capacitate faculty members in quality assurance and increase the number of QA-trained faculty members and staff who will promote and work for the quality assurance of academic programs.

During the first day of the training, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dr. Philip Ian Padilla discussed quality assurance in higher education and the AUN-QA framework. The afternoon session was allotted to the first three criteria of the AUN-QA framework namely Expected Learning Outcomes, Program Structure and Content, and Teaching and Learning Approach. These were discussed by Dr. Adrienne Marrie Bugayong-Janagap from the Division of Biological Sciences, Dr. Padilla, and Dr. Mae Grace Nillos from the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, respectively.