Directorates

  1. PC&QMS
  2. TUMEL
  3. TVET
  4. Odel – Open Distance E-Learning

 

  1. The Directorate of Quality Assurance

The Directorate of Quality Assurance (DQA) was established through the provision of the revised statutes section XVII of 2013. The directorate has two divisions;

  • Academic Quality Assurance
  • Quality Management Systems

 

  • Academic Quality Assurance

Engages in the delivery of appropriate academic experiences through: –

  • Safeguarding of academic standards (Teaching, Learning and Research)
  • Assurance and enhancement of academic quality and outreach activities
  • Implementation of best practices for effective quality assurance and service delivery
  • Adoption of an academic quality improvement cycle since quality is a moving target

 

The responsibilities and functions of DQA include oversee the development and implementation of conventional university degree programs as provided for in the Universities Act of 2012, guided by CUE guidelines and Regulatory Bodies guidelines where applicable. These functions are achieved through: –

  • Implementation of appropriate teaching and evaluation procedures
  • Ensuring stakeholder participation in curriculum content development and review
  • Ensuring effective analysis and professional handling of examination results and possesses therein
  • Ensuring admission and graduation of qualified students into the various approved / accredited programs
  • Ensure recruitment of qualified faculty/staff for enhanced service delivery
  • Liaise with management to ensure availability of adequate infrastructural and human resource for each mounted program
  • Facilitate program accreditation by professional and regulatory bodies
  • Undertake student-lecturer evaluation as a service delivery feedback mechanism
  • To coordinate curriculum development and review undertaken by academic department, Faculties/schools, Stakeholder participation and presentation for senate approval.
  • Coordination Institutional Self-Assessment Analysis.

 

The institution has so far held SIX graduation ceremonies since the Award of charter.

  • Quality Management Systems

Engages in monitoring of quality of management systems. These include;

  • To monitor processes and trainings to ensure that the University adheres to standards.
  • Oversees the implementation of the ISO documented procedures for TUM.
  • Ensures adherence to documented work procedures in all areas in accordance with ISO 9001:2015 standard.
  • Ensures Quality Service Delivery through application of the ISO 9001:2008 standard.
  • Evaluates system performance and suggest improvements.
  • Undertakes Internal Quality Audits (IQAs).

 

The directorate is headed by a Director Quality Assurance, who is assisted by two (2) deputies; Deputy Director, Academic Quality Assurance (DDAQA), Deputy Director, Quality Management  System (DQMS) and one (1) senior clerical officer. The directorate intents to establish a Quality Assurance Board comprising of one member from each School/Faculty/Institute, the university librarian and two students’ representatives. The members of the Quality Assurance Board to be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor to serve for a term of two years renewable for another two years. The Director by virtue of his/her position as Director of Quality Assurance to be a member and chair of the Quality Assurance Board.

  1. Technical University of Mombasa Enterprise Limited (TUMEL)

TUMEL is the commercial arm charged with management of consultancies and other income generating activities of the university. Its primary line of business is consultancy services, training services and commercialization of innovations. The company is run by a board of directors chaired by the chairman of the university council. The day–to-day operations of the company are  verseen by the managing director of the company who also serves as the secretary to the board.

TUMEL’s focus is to tap on the immense potential within the university resources to not only transfer knowledge to the community and industry through specialized short-term training and other consultancy services but also to help generate revenue to enhance financial sustainability of the institution.

Key activities of TUMEL includes but not limited to;

  • Utilizing the university’s human capital resources for research and extension services;
  • Coordinating and providing managerial services for income-generating activities within the university;
  • Enhancing consultancy, research services and innovation by all departments in the university by providing opportunities for commercialization;
  • Diversification of income generating activities at the university.

The company’s activities are all guided by an already operationalized TUMEL policy document

Company resources

  • Wide pool of diverse personnel drawn from members of faculty
  • Diverse laboratories and workshops
  • Conference facility to include meals and accommodation services
  • Water purification plant
  • Health unit
  • Training rooms

Current range company activities include:

  • Consultancy services to include training and provision of technical services such material testing
  • Contract training
  • Hospitality services
  • Water purification and bottling

 

The company further intends to engage in additional activities to include: commercialization of the Health unit, opening a Bookshop, provision of cleaning services, and opening a Commercial bakery

  1. Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

As a Technical University, TUM upholds provision of Technical and Vocational Education and Training) TVET programmes to the Kenyan youths and anyone interested in lifelong learning. The University boasts of having its TVET graduates in a number of industries in the country. This has widened the University’s link with the industry enabling our students to acquire requisite competencies for the job market.

Through a newly found proposition, to develop market driven training, Technical University of Mombasa has partnered with the German International Cooperation (GIZ), industry and other TVET providers to develop internationally bench-marked Competency-Based Education and Training (CBET) curricula in Instrumentation and Control, Heavy Machinery Operations, Mechanical Technology and Maintenance, and Welding. These programmes shall be run in all institutions with resources and facilities.

Technical University of Mombasa, through its Directorate of TVET of Programmes is working on increasing the employability of all our TVET graduates through skills development.

It is now becoming clear that apart from the diploma and certificate qualifications the students shall graduate with, they are required to undertake a skilled training offered through competency-based education and training approach that shall put the Technical University of Mombasa graduates higher than those from other institutions.

The Vice Chancellor Professor Laila Uweso Abubakar, has been in support the reforms in the TVET sector. She has championed the training using the competency-based education and training approach in imparting knowledge, skills and attitudes to trainees and emphasises that this technique can be used at all levels of training in the University.

 

The University has a responsibility for the development of technical and vocational education and training and related activities within the institution and the wider society. As part of the extended mandate, the University admits students who already have diploma qualifications to second year of degree courses and those with certificate qualifications to second year of diploma courses.

All students with diploma and Certificate qualifications that would like to enroll for the next higher level of education are encouraged to apply. In addition to the University TVET programmes being offered, Technical University of Mombasa also offers Kenya National Examinations Council examined TVET diploma and certificate programmes.

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