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Development of Certification
and Accreditation
DEWI PADMO, TEDJO DJAT MIKO, AND T IA N BELAWATI
Introduction
The fourth Rector of Universitas Terbuka (UT) , Prof. Atwi Suparman was
appointed in 2000. Since then , concrete effort and actions to improve the quality
of UT services have been taken, including the implementation of the university's
Quality Assurance System. The implementation was initiated with the
establishment of the Quality Assurance System Committee in October 2001. Its
first mandate was to study the draft of the Quality Assurance Framework
developed by the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) . The team
finally adopted the draft AAOU Quality Assurance Framework as reference for the
UT Quality Assurance System (UT, 2002) , which was subsequently disseminated
and introduced to the management and staff in the Headquarters and Regional
Offices through the National Coordination Meeting (Rakornas) in April 2002.
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