Statutes of the GMBS Quality Board

Article 1

Introductory Provision

The GMBS Quality Board is an advisory body to the Rector of GMBS in the area of quality assurance of the higher education provided.

Article 2

Basic Tasks and Activities of the GMBS Quality Board

1) The GMBS Quality Board prepares, monitors, evaluates and coordinates the development, implementation and use of the internal quality system for the provision of higher education.

2) The GMBS Quality Board further:

(a) Coordinates the establishment, use, operation and implementation of the quality management system at the GMBS;

(b) Proposes to the Rector corrective and preventive measures related to building, evaluating and correcting the internal quality system and makes suggestions for improvement with the aim of improving the quality and performance of the managed systems;

(c) Controls the cost-effectiveness of all activities falling within the scope of quality assurance and the GMBS quality management system.

(3) The activities of the GMBS Quality Board shall be governed by the Quality Board Statute and the Quality Assurance and Quality Management System Development Schedule of GMBS. The building of the quality management system and its implementation in the management practice of all levels of GMBS management in an integrally understood system will be carried out by trained and professionally competent internal employees, with the help of recognized consultants for building quality management systems, as well as with the use of regular systemic assessment as to the level and compliance of successive steps leading towards the set goal. As a result of the managed and coordinated activities of the GMBS Quality Board, the internal quality system will be implemented and the harmonisation of the GMBS management system with the requirements of the international standards for the quality management systems will be achieved.

(4) The activities of the GMBS Quality Board are coordinated by the Vice-Rector for Quality, Accreditation and Development, who is responsible for the scheduling and material timetable for the implementation of the quality assurance system at the GMBS. The Vice-Rector prepares and provides information on quality assurance at the GMBS to the GMBS advisory, self-governing and other bodies as required by the GMBS Rector.

Article 3

Composition

1) Members of the Quality Board are appointed and dismissed by the Rector.

2) The Vice-Rector for Quality, Accreditation and Development is the chairman of the Quality Board. In principle, the members of the Quality Board are: the Rector, the Vice-Rectors and the Managing Director of GMBS.

Article 4

GMBS Quality Board Meeting

(1) Meetings of the GMBS Quality Board shall be convened by the chairman as required.

(2) The Vice-Rector for Quality, Accreditation and Development has the right to invite representatives of individual organizational units to the meetings of the Quality Board provided that issues falling within their competence are to be discussed.

(3) The team for the implementation of the quality management system shall be established at the Quality Board.

(4) Members of the GMBS Quality Board are obliged to participate in the meetings of the GMBS Quality Board and to fulfil the tasks adopted by it.

Article 6

Rules Applicable to the Quality Board

The status and activities of the GMBS Quality Board shall be governed by GMBS internal regulations, which contain the GMBS quality assurance policy and procedures, this Statute and the governing documents.

Article 7

Binding Force of Decisions

(1) Decisions taken in the GMBS Quality Board in the field of quality assurance and quality management system management are binding on all GMBS employees.

Article 8

Final Provision

(1) Amendments to this Statute must be discussed and approved by the GMBS Quality Board.