KAEU, which is a model for institutions and organizations with its Integrated Quality Management System, continues its successful quality journey. In this context, the Integrated Quality Management System Workshop was held on April 12, 2021, at the Ahi Evran Congress Culture Center. Rector of KAEU Prof. Dr. Vatan Karakaya, Vice-Rectors Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kasım Karahocagil and Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kurt, Secretary-General Mehmet Zeki Küçük, Quality Management Coordination team, academic and administrative staff and students who take part in the workshop participated in the workshop.
Vice-Rector Karahocagil: "KAEU Quality Management System has a Human-Centered and Ahi-Oriented Management Approach"
Vice-Rector and Quality Management Coordinator Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kasım Karahocagil made the opening speech of the Integrated Quality Management System Workshop. Karahocagil started his speech by reminding the audience that the establishment of quality assurance systems was determined as the basic policy of KAEU in 2015. Karahocagil stated that the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) for administrative processes and the Quality Assurance Management System in Education for education processes were established at the university and noted that both internal quality management systems were constantly developed, planned, and monitored through domestic and national software. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kasım Karahocagil, who gave information about the developing processes related to BKYS, stated that the name of the Ahi Evran Integrated Quality Management System was registered with the application to the General Directorate of Copyrights of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Stating that the Total Quality Management System was regarded as a revolution in management, Quality Management Coordinator Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kasım Karahocagil emphasized that this management system was a human-centered Ahi-values management approach that adopted the teamwork that continuously developed and improved itself by making self-criticism with the employees based on the satisfaction of all employees.
Şimşek: “We aim to create a framework that builds continuity by bringing the past, present, and future together”
After the speech of Vice-Rector and Quality Management Coordinator Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kasım Karahocagil, Deputy Quality Management Coordinator Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Şimşek shared the details regarding the Integrated Quality Management System Workshop. Expressing that the workshop would last for two days, Şimşek reminded the audience that quality doesn't intend to control, but it is a management philosophy. Şimşek said that the main purpose of the workshop was to make an evaluation that would ensure continuous improvement as an institution. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Şimşek pointed out that they gave importance to representation in the workshop and that they formed groups including students the personnel who had not been included in the system before, and emphasized that the framework was a structure that pointed to the continuity by bringing the past, present, and future together. Şimşek, then, ended his speech by giving information about the aims of the workshop.
Rector Karakaya: "Quality Is the Goal, Quality Elements Are the Tools"
Rector of KAUE Prof. Dr. Vatan Karakaya, who came to the podium to make his speech on the Integrated Quality Management System Workshop, started his speech by wishing that the workshop, which would be held during the month of Ramadan, would be beneficial. Expressing that he was happy that the academic knowledge regarding the quality process was strengthened with a workshop, Karakaya stated that quality was the goal while quality elements were the tools, and today, the workshop would enable them to discuss the ways to improve the tools. Rector Karakaya, who stated that human beings were worthy of being good and qualified, said that this was a discussion of ancient philosophy, that evil was done on purpose, that humanity was in goodness and that goodness had a methodology.
Rector Karakaya: "KAEU Is At the Point of Marketing the Quality Process"
Prof. Dr. Vatan Karakaya, who said that they valued the integration of the students in the quality process, continued his words as follows:’’“Besides the memory, it is important and valuable for young people to be involved in the process. Because the work done here is a process that is constantly renewed and adds innovation and value to itself. In that regard, KAEU has reached the point where the product can be marketed. My point is that we have two elements that match the best THEQC criteria, that is, almost at the fifth maturity level. So, what is the fifth maturity level, how does it work? A maturity level means being completed its cycle, guaranteed, and can be set an example for other institutions. That suggests that we have two quality elements that will add value to other institutions such as the Integrated Quality Management System and AYDEP, after the registrations, and they are the result of your efforts,'' and, lastly, he wished the workshop to be successful.
The Integrated Quality Management System Workshop, which will last for two days, will continue in groups in Muharrem Ertaş, Şeyh Edebali, and Süleyman Türkmani halls between 12-13 April 2022.
