Background information about the Quality Assurance Bureau

The Quality Assurance Bureau (QAB) of the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) is a University-wide quality coordination unit operating directly under the office of the Vice Chancellor (VC) serving as secretariat to the VC on quality assurance matters across the university. As a secretariat to the VC, the QAB shall constantly monitor and periodically evaluate the functioning of other units within the university to determine the extent to which they play their roles as per established regulations and schedules for various activities. The establishment of the Bureau was in compliance with the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU)’s “Universities General Quality Assurance and Approval of Rules, By-laws, Programmes and Awards) Regulations 2007” made under Section 62 of the Universities Act, 2005.