Quality assurance strategy

Quality Assurance Committee of the Centre

The Quality Assurance Committee of the Centre aims to ensure the development of the Centre's Quality Assurance System (SGCC), promoting continuous improvement and enhancing the participation of all groups whilst ensuring coordination among all responsible bodies.

Its composition shall be approved by the Faculty Board, at the proposal of the Dean, guaranteeing the representation of all sectors of the Centre (Academic Staff, Administrative Staff, Students).

Composition of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Centre

On 25 February 2021, the Quality Assurance Committee of the Faculty of Sciences was established, whose structure was approved in an extraordinary session of the Faculty Board on 21 December 2020. The Quality Assurance Committee is comprised of the Dean (Chair), a Vice-Dean with responsibility for quality, a representative of the internal quality assurance commission for each bachelor degree of the Faculty of Sciences, the centre administrator, a technician related to quality matters in laboratories, two students and a representative of employers:

Post	Name
Dean (Chair)	Manuel Pérez Mendoza
Vice-Dean for Quality and Teaching Innovation	Pedro A. García Sánchez
Representative of Biology	María del Carmen Pérez Martínez
Representative of Biochemistry	Eva Encarnación Rufino Palomares
Representative of Biotechnology	José Angel Traverso Gutierrez
Representative of Environmental Sciences	Olga López Guarnido
Representative of Statistics	Ana María Aguilera del Pino
Representative of Physics	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Valverde
Representative of Geology	Salvador Morales Ruano
Representative of Industrial Electrical Engineering	Antonio Martínez Olmos
Representative of Chemical Engineering	Francisco Ríos Ruiz
Representative of Mathematics	Francisco Milán López
Representative of Optics and Optometry	Miguel Ángel Martínez Domingo
Representative of Chemistry	Óscar Ballesteros García
Centre Administrator	María Dolores Medina Mesa
Laboratory Technician	José Cruz Cabrerizo
Student	Trevor Chen Zhang
Student	Carmen Carrascosa Vázquez
Operational Excellence Manager at Abbott	Eva María Carmona Vílchez

Rules of procedure for the centre quality commission (pdf)

Minutes of the sessions of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Centre

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

Schedule of meetings of the centre quality commission (pdf)

Joint Commission

In 2024, an academic-administrative commission was established to facilitate processes and communication between undergraduate degree coordinators and the administrative office. This committee meets regularly and maintains a summary of actions and activities it promotes, but not minutes. Actors involved in the issues to be discussed at each meeting are invited to attend. It is composed on a permanent basis of two undergraduate degree coordinators (Óscar Ballesteros García and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez), the centre administrator, the Vice-Dean for Academic Organisation and the Vice-Dean for Quality and Teaching Innovation.

Quality policy and strategic objectives of the centre

The centre is committed to improvement through the following Quality Policy, which establishes its vision and strategic direction and is reflected in strategic objectives defined by its senior management team:

The Faculty must have strategic objectives through its Strategic Plan as a framework of reference for the SGCC.

Quality manual

A document that records the centre's quality management system and incorporates all the centre's academic and administrative processes (process map) and a brief description of these. The manual references responsible bodies, documents, regulations, procedures (which already exist within the University of Granada) and describes in detail the stages of the various processes.

System results and accountability

The improvement methodology of the implemented quality management system generates periodic analyses reflected in Management Reports; improvement actions on the different aspects covered in the scope of the quality management system and documents that evidence its implementation, such as the communication plan, minutes and other evidence that are included in the following sections.

Centre Management Report. This is the annual analysis the centre carries out of the previous academic year, in which all the analyses and decisions adopted and the results achieved are reflected.

Centre Improvement Plan: This is the document that records all the centre's improvement actions, their objectives, those responsible, timeframe and tracking and achievement indicators. This Improvement Plan shall integrate that of the degree programmes.

Communication Plan (version PDF): A document that records the objectives, those responsible, channels and timetable of the actions aimed at disseminating information and accountability to all the centre's stakeholders. A simplified version of this plan can be consulted in this link.

Documentation and evidence: Minutes, documents or records that evidence the implementation of the quality management system.