Internal Quality Assurance System

he Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS) of the Polytechnic School of Cuenca (EPC) plays an essential strategic role in the ongoing improvement of Bachelor’s Degrees in Building Engineering and Telecommunication Technologies Engineering, as well as the Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering. In this way, the competences, skills and aptitudes of the graduates of these degree courses will be known by employers and wider society.

The IQAS of the EPC was created to respond to the aspects set out in R.MR.861 / 2010, of 2 July, which amends Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, which regulates official university studies on the basis of evidence gathered in a regulated and systematic manner. Initially, the system was deemed necessary by the National Quality Assessment and Accreditation Agency of Spain (ANECA) for the verification of the degree course (VERIFY Programme), then for the Annual Improvement and Monitoring Programme (MONITOR Programme), and lastly to fulfil the objective of putting in place a programme to renew accreditation mechanisms (ACCREDIT Programme). 

Internal Quality Assurance Committee (IQAC)

According to the Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS) of the UCLM verified by ANECA, the Internal Quality Assurance Committee (IQAC) of the Polytechnic School of Cuenca is a body which carries out the planning and follow-up tasks of the IQAC, also acting as one of the vehicles for the internal communication of IQAS policy, objectives, plans, programmes, duties and achievements.

The Internal Quality Assurance Committee of the Polytechnic School of Cuenca is made up of:

Chairman: Mr José Manuel Blas, Director of the EPC.

Secretary: Mr Joaquín Fuentes, Secretary of the EPC.

Quality Coordinator: Mr José Antonio Ballesteros, the EPC’s Quality Coordinator and Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Technologies programme at the EPC.

Members:

• Mr José Manuel Cañizares Montón, Head of Studies in Building Engineering programme at the EPC.
• Mr Marcos David Fernández Berlanga, Head of Studies in Telecommunications Engineering at the EPC.
• Mr Juan José de Dios, Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering programme at the EPC.
• Mr Miguel Ángel Ruiz, Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Building Engineering programme at the EPC.
• Mr Álvaro Monteagudo, Senior Management at the EPC.
• Ms Beatriz López Olivares, Building Engineering undergraduate at the EPC.
• Mr Ángel Torrijos Díaz, Telecommunication Technologies Engineering undergraduate at the EPC.
• Mr Álvaro del Río Núñez, student on the University Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering.

Updated on 17 February 2020.

1. This Committee will have, at least, the following roles: Chairperson (EPC Director), Secretary (EPC Secretary), EPC Quality Programme Coordinator, Heads of Studies (in Telecommunications and Building degree courses), a representative from administrative and services staff, and the relevant coordinator and a student from each official qualification being taught at the EPC.

2. The duties of the Committee include:

 A. Drawing up a Multiannual Strategic Plan for the EPC and ensuring its implementation, performance and follow-up in collaboration with the rest of the EPC’s committees and staff.

 B. Assessing and approving the work plan proposals of the other committees within the Academic Staff Assessment Programme (PEP) framework.

 C. Gathering the annual activity and results reports from the rest of the committees and contextualise them within the PEP and submit reports on the same before the Board of the EPC.

D. Verifying the planning of UCLM’s internal quality assurance system (IQAS) at the EPC.

E. Proposing the “Annual Follow-Up Report on the EPC’s bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes”, which will contain the data obtained from the performance of IQAS procedures, their analysis and, if applicable, the follow-up of the application of the previously proposed improvement actions.

 F. Proposing the “Annual Improvement Plan for the EPC’s bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes”, which will contain, at least: a description of each improvement action, tasks to perform to complete the improvement action, task officer, timing (start and end date), required resources, follow-up indicators and follow-up officer.

 G. Coordinating the procedure for accrediting the bachelor’s and master’s degree qualifications, carrying out the preparatory tasks required for said procedures.

 H. Analysing and proposing, at the proposal of the Quality Coordinator, which information should be disclosed, to whom, and in what manner, in addition to validating the information obtained by the same.

 I. Any other duty entrusted to it by the EPC’s Senior Management.

Polytechnic School of Cuenca Committees Policy

University of Castilla-La Mancha IQAS Manual

VERIFY Programme

Verified statement on the University Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering

Verification report and its recommendations on the University Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering

Latest verified statement on the amendment of the Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Technologies Engineering

Verification report and its recommendations on the latest amendment to the Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Technologies Engineering

Original statement on the verification of the Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Technologies Engineering

Original verification report and its recommendations on the Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Technologies Engineering

Verified statement on the Bachelor’s Degree in Building Engineering

Verification report and its recommendations on the Bachelor’s Degree in Building Engineering

MONITOR Programme

The MONITOR programme seeks to provide universities with external assessment on how its official degree programmes are being implemented so that it may be used as another way to improve the teaching offered. The Internal Quality Assurance Committee of the Polytechnic School of Cuenca gives consideration to the aspects set out in R.MR.861/2010, of 2 July, which amends R.MR.1393/2007, of 29 October, which regulates official university studies on the basis of evidence gathered in a regulated and systematic manner. The Committee issues a follow-up report based on its considerations where it sets out Annual Improvement plans, with prioritised and time-limited courses of action. The indicators set out in R.MR.861 / 2010, of 2 July, which amends Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, which regulates official university studies, and in the ANECA qualification monitoring protocol (MONITOR programme) are as follows:

Graduation rate: percentage of students who complete their studies in the envisaged timeframe or within one extra academic year compared to their entry cohort.
Drop-out rate: percentage between the total number of students of a new cohort intake who should have completed the degree in the previous academic year and who have not enrolled in that academic year or the previous year.
Efficiency rate: percentage between the total number of credits established in the study programmes and the total number of credits in which the total number of graduates have had to enrol over the course of their studies in a given academic year.
Performance rate: For academic year X, percentage between the number of ordinary credits passed in degree D in  University U and the total number of ordinary credits enrolled in degree D in University U.

Bachelor’s Degree in Building Engineering

The indicators corresponding to recent academic years in the Bachelor’s Degree in Building Engineering, as per the definition set out below, are as follows:

* Unable to be calculated by definition of Royal Decree 1393/2007

• Follow-up Report (Action Plan and Improvements) 2012/13 and 2013/14
• ANECA recommendations for the follow-up reports 2011/2012
• Committee minutes

Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Technologies Engineering

As this degree was verified in the 2015/16 academic year and it began to be taught in 2016/17, not all of the rates are available, given that according to their definition, five academic years as from the first cohort must be considered for the calculation of the graduation and drop-out rates. The results obtained for the successive academic years will be set out in the following table:

* *Unable to be calculated by definition of Royal Decree 1393/2007

• Follow-up Report
• ANECA recommendations for the follow-up report
• Committee minutes

University Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering

As this degree was verified in the 2015/16 academic year and it began to be taught in 2016/17, not all of the rates are available, given that according to their definition, five academic years as from the first cohort must be considered for the calculation of the graduation and drop-out rates. The results obtained for the successive academic years will set out in the following table:

* Unable to be calculated by definition of Royal Decree 1393/2007

• Follow-up Report
• ANECA recommendations for the follow-up report
• Committee minutes  

ACCREDIT Programme

Self-assessment report on the University Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering- 2018

ANECA report on the renewal of the accreditation of the University Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering - 2018

Self-assessment report on the Bachelor’s Degree in Building Engineering

ANECA report on the renewal of the accreditation of the Bachelor’s Degree in Building Engineering -2017