Publications

 

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    The papers describes a project which was established as an agreement of Armenian higher education (HE) stakeholders, some European universities and organization supporting students’ participation in HE. It focuses on role of students in higher education, and tries to support the Armenian students in empowering their position in the local system.

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    The continuous process of improving ARACIS activity has two major objectives: increasing the efficacy of the process of internal and external evaluation and the development of new standards / indicators / procedures of quality assurance. To reach these goals, it is essential to understand and assess the opinions regarding the quality of ARACIS’ activity, and to identify the tendencies and risks regarding quality assurance in higher education in Romania. 

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    The ever-changing landscape of higher education and the rapid technology advancement are leading to new ways of teaching and assessing. Accordingly, quality assurance (QA) must adapt to these changes to give confidence in these new realities. In the scope of the TeSLA project, QA processes aim to assure and guarantee the quality of an e-assessment system using authentication and authorship instruments.

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    183 employees of 10 higher education departments described their own attitude and role with respect to quality and diversity. The results reveal rather low levels of involvement. Comparison of organizational culture preference and beliefs about quality and diversity between four groups of employees (pioneers, enthusiasts, neutrals, sceptics) revealed that preference for an innovative and non-traditional organizational culture is related to involvement for the two policy areas. Preference for market orientation relates positively to involvement in quality and preference for sustainability relates positively to involvement in diversity. Three dimensions could be recognized in the beliefs about quality and diversity:

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    This paper outlines the key data and metrics that are being used to assure and assess quality and standards in United Kingdom (UK) higher education. It is a brief overview of data driven reforms to quality assurance in the UK in recent years. This is a fascinating time in UK quality assurance. Written shortly after a general election and against the backdrop of the Brexit negotiations, we also consider the politics and policy that led to these reforms.

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    We developed an analytic framework to strategically plan IQA communication, in order to increase the overall impact of IQA-output. Our paper considers traps and obstacles in communication. Drawing from the experience of Florence Nightingale this paper develops a procedure that enables IQA units to optimize the impact of their IQA tools.

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    Student Engagement in module and programme evaluation has become a pressing issue in the quality assurance and enhancement of the higher education teaching and learning environment.

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    Employers can give a valuable insight into the employability competencies and desired improvements in the higher education quality assurance system. The main aim of the paper is to find what kind of employability competencies are highly valued by employers, how employers see their involvement in higher education and what further quality assurance activities should be performed by HEIs to better meet employers’ expectations. The survey of employers who participated in the evaluation of higher education as the members of experts’ pool in Latvia was conducted based on the Importance-Performance Analysis. 

  • Abstract

    Establishing causality between internal quality review (iQR) and impact is important not only for enhancing responsible behaviour but also for demonstrating that quality assurance (QA) has value. Impact is both qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative impact, for example evidence of action plans and changes, is initially easy to demonstrate. Quantitative impact, as evidenced through changes to key performance indicators (KPIs) is significantly more challenging.

  • Abstract

    While most of the European countries conduct accreditations, quality audits are the Finnish way to follow the Berlin conference’s demand of implementing an external quality assurance instrument on national level. Even though mainly considered as a highly effective instrument to improve the quality management of universities, they have not been without criticism. As the Finnish universities are facing profound external changes for the last decade, the question how the attitude towards quality audits changed is the key question the paper in hand follows.




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