The Teaching Authority was established to improve the quality of teaching at institutions of higher education in Israel in general, and at COMAS in particular through various means, while developing tools to measure quality instruction. It encourages debate on the essence of academic teaching and its quality amongst the faculty and academic management.
Aims:
- to encourage excellence in teaching
- to ensure that teaching standards remain at a consistently high level
- to monitor and enhance all aspects of teaching at the COMAS
To achieve these objectives the Authority organizes courses, seminars and workshops. It has developed teaching quality evaluation criteria for determining professional advancement and it publishes Al Hagovah a highly successful professional journal devoted to higher education issues which is distributed to all institutions of higher education in Israel. The journal is the first of its kind in Israel.