Introduction 

Institutional quality enhancement is at the center of core activities of higher education institutions. Higher Education Academic Program and Curriculum Design, review and approval Directive No 917/ 2022, Any Higher education program review shall give attention to Ethiopian educational qualification framework, academic program accreditation strategy. Regarding the focus of the internal quality enhancement system, the proclamation states that all institutions must provide clear and comprehensive quality improvement measures covering the professional development of academics, course contents, learning and teaching processes, student assessment, evaluation and grading systems. Based on this national legal framework and institutional context, ASTU has established an internal quality assurance system called Educational Quality Enhancement Directorate (EQED) previously known as the Academic Standard and Quality Assurance Directorate. EQED is ASTU’s internal quality assurance organ, which is currently accountable to the University Academic Vice President. The directorate is mandated to oversee all activities relevant to the three pillars of higher education, namely, teaching, research and community services.

In the light of this, EQED is responsible for ensuring all educational and administrative services delivered by ASTU are aligned with its Vision and Mission through practicing the promises postulated as its core values and standards. For ASTU to successfully discharge its duties and responsibilities of delivering quality education, undertake problem-solving research, and provide community services, integrated and standard quality service delivery is required in all aspects of its functions particularly in terms of maintaining quality in both theoretical and practical aspects of engineering and science education, establishing quality laboratories, facilities and student support system, enhancing the professional and pedagogical competence of faculties, and engaging in applied research and community outreach. Among the more specific activities that could be performed by EQED are:

• Organizing awareness and capacity building training to faculties and students;
• Ensuring all relevant activities and endeavors of ASTU are geared towards ABET and ETA accreditation;
• Monitoring course completion and attainments of CLOs, PO and PEO audit for undergraduate programs;
• Assessing and evaluating the infrastructure and laboratory standards of programs;
• Conducting an annual institutional audit report as per the requirements of Education and Training Authority (ETA);
• Developing strategies and goals that would enhance education quality of the programs and courses in each college;
• Conducting a diagnostic assessment on the existing internal educational quality and assurance system in ASTU;
• Developing an institutional educational quality enhancement policy, working guidelines, and key performance indicators;
• Preparation of flyers, guidelines and strategies to discharge its responsibilities to the program levels;
• Organize training on ISO quality management system 9001:2015 and follow up the process for certificate.

                                        Vision

To be a leading institution in educational excellence through robust quality assurance systems that enhance teaching, learning, research, and community engagement.

                                     Mission Statements of the office

• Ensuring Academic Excellence through Continuous Quality Improvement
• Driving Institutional Success with Quality Standards
• Promoting Excellence through Quality and Innovation
• Building a Culture of Quality and Accountability

           ASTU ETHICS LIAISON CONTENT

                1. Ethics Liaison

•  Established as per proclamation No1236/2021

                2. Vision

•   By 2030, with high ethics standard, corruption free university

                3. Mission

• By follow up of ethical values enhancement, establishment of strong internal control procedure, sustainably avoid corruption exposure or vulnerability via insuring transparency and accountability.

                4. Ethical principles

• Freedom and impartiality
• Transparency and Accountability
• Cooperation and synergy
• Participation
• Professional competency

                 5. Ethical values

• Highly ethical
• Being exemplary
• Change and universalism
• Team work
• Taking initiative and action oriented

                   6. Homan resource data of ethics liaison

                7.  Major activities and responsibilities of ethics liaison

1. Conduct corruption risk exposure areas and improprieties in work system and forward recommendations as to how to curb the problems as well as follow up the implementation of the recommendations.

2. Prepare a guideline that can prevent conflict of interest that could occur between private interest and public interest.

3. Conduct urgent Corruption Prevention investigation to hinder the case before it happened.

4. Organize the profile of asset registrants, update it, register all types of asset registration, send the registered documents to ethics and anti-corruption commission, receive and distribute the certificates of the registrants.

5. Prepare ethics guideline of the institution and follow up its implementation.

6. Organize, train, follow up and support students’ ethics and anti-corruption club.

7. Provide training on ethics building and corruption prevention methods.

8. Oversee the proper implantation of anti-corruption laws in the university.

9. Consult university officials on ethics and corruption issues.

10. Devise whistle blowing system that guarantee whistle blowers safety etc.

                                            Women and Social Affairs Executive

                                 Vision

To create an inclusive, equitable, and empowering environment where women and all members of our academic community thrive, driving gender equality, social justice, and sustainable development for transformative change in Ethiopia and beyond.

                                 Mission

The missions of the ASTU’s Gender Affairs Directorate are:

• Promoting gender equality, and bringing social transformation among women in ASTU in order to increase their participation, so that, they can contribute to the development of the country.
• Enhancing the competence of female students in Science and Technology through facilitating different supports and creating conducive environment.
• Providing community services through capacity building trainings on gender related issues, female empowerment, initiating and encouraging female students toward science and technology and awareness creation to rescue adolescents in schools from risky behaviors and drug abuses.

                                  Values

• Gender equality
• Accountability
• Responsiveness
• Confidentiality
• Transparency
• Excellence in service delivery
• Justice
• Diversity
• Equity
• Inclusion

                                     Services

• Provide capacity building trainings for both female university staffs and students.
• Provide legal protection from abuse, harassment and violence.
• Provide advice and counseling services.
• Enhance female student’s academic competence by providing them additional tutorial classes.
• Facilitate economic and Material support for needy female and male students.
• Awarding high scoring/role model female students
• Promote the participation of women in the overall university endeavors
• Initiate staffs to participate on researches, seminars/conferences related to gender issues
• Provide day care service for ASTU staffs
• Provide awareness raising and life skills training for high school female students.

                   Contact Address

Sewunet Bora Jima: Women and Social Affairs Executive Officer

Mobile:+251-913379640

Phone: - +251-22-111-4256

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            POBox:- 1888

As it is known the Government of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has been allocated huge amount of budget for universities’ to ascertain the countries development through education that supported by science and technology with some specific center of excellencies. Having this, the internal audit service directorate has a great responsibility to support and ensure existence of proper handling and utilization of public resources in the university.
To do the aforementioned activities ASD together with the university community expected to:-
o    Ensure execution of approved budget in contrast with the intended purpose of the university
o    Ensure the application of contemporary internal audit system in the university and its parts
o    Provide advisory and consultation service for management and working units
o    make sure the existence of economic, efficient and effective utilization of resources (Property, Financial and Human) in the university
o    Assure whether activities that carried out in the university comply with government rules, regulations and directives or not
Mission
The mission of ASD is to realize and assure economic, efficient and effective utilization of government resources through the provision of quality audit to support the industrial and socio-economic development of the nation and ASTU as well.
Vision
The vision of internal audit is to support the core issue that to make ASTU to be the first choice as one of the recognized premier center of excellence in applied science and Technology in Africa by 2025.
Values
Audit service directorate is committed to being an ethical in recognition of the rights and inherent dignity of all members of its staffs and university community.  Below are the bedrock values of audit service directorate. These principals shall be held in the highest regards at all times and form the basis of our actions and interactions. Thus ASD core values are:
•    Professional ethics
•    Responsiveness
•    Transparency and accountability:
•    Nurturing diversity
•    Sense of belongingness and ownership
•    Originality and innovativeness