Program Quality Assurance Process Audit (PQAPA) was implemented in order to grant greater autonomy to Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology to govern their programs.

Overseen by the Ontario College Quality Assurance Service, PQAPA involves the regular and cyclical review of each college’s program quality assurance processes. It focuses on college-wide policies and practices and drills down on selected programs to verify that practices are implemented; recommendations lead to improvement; and program quality is assured.

Each external evaluation of a college includes completion of a quality criteria form and self-study report; a two-day site visit; ends in a report from the audit review panel documenting the degree to which the college’s processes conform to the criteria; and provides recommendations aimed at improving and enhancing processes and procedures to ensure learning comes first.

Watch the video and see what PQAPA means to Durham College.