The Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS) (SGIQ)
SGIQ of the Faculty of Communication Sciences
The centres of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have their own Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS), which reflects the firm commitment to offer quality degrees that include in their operation the mechanisms to ensure continuous evaluation and improvement, both of the degrees offered and of the management system itself.
The centre's SGIQ is committed to the UAB (SGIQ transversal UAB) and contributes to offering quality degrees that guarantee the achievement of the learning outcomes (skills, knowledge and competencies) established in the training programs. In order to achieve the fundamental objective of offering a scientific training of degree and postgraduate based on the needs and expectations of its users, and of society in general.
The SGIQ of the Faculty of Communication Sciences includes all the responsibilities and tasks carried out at the centre level, including the specific characteristics, needs and interests of the centre and the degrees it programmes.
This management system has been designed following the guidelines of the AUDIT program and the quality recommendations of AQU Catalunya and ENQA.
On 23 November 2010, the Faculty of Communication Sciences obtained the favourable assessment by AQU Catalunya of the design of the IQAS. And on December 15, 2021, it obtained the AQU favorable certification of the implementation of the IQAS.
Map of processes of the Faculty's SGIQ
Processes of the Faculty's SGIQ:
Strategic processes (PE)
- PE01: Definition of the policy and quality objectives.
- PE02: Definition, deployment, monitoring and implantation of the SGIQ.
- PE03: Creation and design of new degrees. Map of degrees.
- PE04: Definition of the PDI policy.
- PE05: Definition of the PTGAS policy, training and evaluation.
- PE06: Institutional accreditation of the centre.
Key Processes (PC)
- PC01: Definition of profiles of admission, graduation and access to studies.
- PC02: Teaching programming of the subjects. Teaching guides.
- PC03: Management of external internships.
- PC04: Student orientation.
- PC05: Student evaluation.
- PC06: Management of student mobility, PTGAS and PDI.
- PC07: Monitoring, evaluation and improvement of qualifications.
Teaching Quality Monitoring Program (PSQD)
- PC08: Modification and extinction of degrees.
- PC09: Document management.
- PC10: Accreditation of official qualifications.
- PC11: Management of final studies.
Support processes (PS)
- PS01: Training of PDI: Teaching Innovation.
- PS02: Management of services, spaces and material resources.
- PS03: Organization and academic management.
- PS04: Management of complaints, suggestions and congratulations.
OPINA UAB report (1st semester 2024-2025)
- PS05: Satisfaction of interest groups.
- PS06: Job placement of graduates.
- PS07: Public information and accountability.
- PS08: Evaluation of teaching activity of the PDI.
Review of the SGIQ-FCC
Review report 2020-2021, 2021-2022 (approved on 10/18/2023)
Management report of the center 2022-2023 (approved on 10/30/2024)
Management report of the centre 2023-2024 (approved on 04/06/2025)