Friday, March 28, 2008 CHED identifies CIT as a Mature Teaching Institution
CEBU Institute of Technology is identified by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) per its Memorandum Order No. 58 signed by Chairman Romulo L. Neri as belonging to Category A(t) (Mature Teaching Institution) under the Institutional Quality Assurance Monitoring and Evaluation (IQuAME) framework.
CIT is the first higher educational institution in the Visayas and Mindanao classified as Category A(t) institution.
IQuAME is a mechanism by which CHED monitors and evaluates the performance of a Higher Education Institution (HEI) in terms of the effectiveness of the arrangements made by the HEI to manage the quality and standards of its own programs. It also considers matters on governance, management, student support, and resource allocation.
There are four categories under the IQuAME framework: Category A(r) for Mature Teaching and Research Institutions; Category A(t) for Mature Teaching Institutions; Category B for Developing Institutions and Category C for all other Institutions.
Mature Teaching Institutions (Category A(t)) are institutions that have teaching as their core business. They will not normally undertake research, although faculty will keep up to date with developments in their discipline through their personal study and scholarship.
An HEI submits an application, together with a self-evaluation document, to CHED, indicating the category it wishes to be evaluated on. The HEI is then visited by a pool of assessors in order to verify and validate the claims made in the self-evaluation document. The pool of assessors prepares a report and submits them to CHED indicating the result of the evaluation.
There were 21 schools nationwide that were visited in 2006 and early 2007. Out of the 21 schools, no school qualified for the A(r) category and only three schools qualified for the A(t) category.
