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Prospects for Enhancing EU-LAC Higher Education and Research Cooperation
Expert voices ... Alfa, and the current Erasmus+ Capacity Building programme. Such projects contributed to internationalisation of institutions and systems and also to reforms in quality assurance, recognition, and curricula. ... 27 May 2020 -
Digital learning and teaching: Ensuring quality during the Covid-19 crisis
Expert voices ... quality of online education more than the quality of education taking place in a more traditional way. All modes of study have their pros and cons and can be of good or less-than good quality. In fact, ... 25 May 2020 -
The role of quality assurance in promoting social dimension of higher education
Expert voices ... Ministerial Conference scheduled to take place on 18-20 November. Developing these principles has put new wind in the sails of the debate on role of quality assurance in promoting the social dimension ... 22 Apr 2020 -
Considerations for quality assurance in research
Expert voices With some exceptions, quality assurance developments have been largely focused on the educational mission of universities. There are, however, some examples of national systems where the focus of external ... 08 Apr 2020 -
Revitalising the role of universities in scholarly communication
Expert voices ... to resolve many of the problems of the current system. Apart from concerns about costs (which may continue to rise), quality (publishers may be incentivised to publish more papers), and participation (researchers ... 17 Feb 2020 -
Improving learning and teaching through mid-semester course feedback
Expert voices Universities collect a wide range of data to improve the quality of their learning and teaching. A large-scale Likert-type survey is a common method of data collection to inform changes at the institutional, ... 09 Dec 2019 -
Cross-border quality assurance: political ideals and national realities
Expert voices ... collaboration in academic activities. In this context, some networks have already identified nationally based external quality assurance arrangements to be one of the challenges in achieving the networks’ ... 06 Dec 2019 -
25 years of supporting strategic development through the Institutional Evaluation Programme
Expert voices ... stakeholders are paying increased attention to their performance results. In parallel, the approach to, and system for, quality assurance in higher education has evolved in recent decades. Higher education ... 20 Nov 2019 -
Developing the quality of student assessment systems
Expert voices The question of student assessment is an integral part of quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area. Standard 1.3 of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher ... 18 Nov 2019 -
Quality assurance: the challenge of staying relevant
Expert voices Hundreds of quality assurance professionals from European higher education institutions are making their way to the annual European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) this week to meet with representatives ... 18 Nov 2019 -
Coordinated evaluations and concrete change: experiences from EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme
Expert voices ... are left for the sectoral report. Typical recommendations about governance broach issues of funding, institutional autonomy, the external quality assurance system, and whether the conditions are optimal ... 17 Oct 2019 -
A fresh look at internal quality assurance
Expert voices Internal quality assurance processes have become an intrinsic part of any modern university management. Quite often universities put them in place because they are required by external quality assurance ... 13 Sep 2019 -
The use of external quality assurance reports and the Database of External Quality Assurance Results
Expert voices External quality assurance plays an important role to support higher education institutions in enhancing the quality of their provision and to create trust in the quality of higher education. Publishing ... 07 Jun 2019 -
How to use external quality assurance information more efficiently
Expert voices ... formulating educational policies, notes that quality assurance agencies in only a handful of European countries provide input in policy-making. Nevertheless, reports resulting from external quality assurance ... 07 Jun 2019 -
Why smart universities care about sustainable development
Expert voices ... should clearly work to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number four on equal rights to high-quality education. Achieving this goal requires higher education institutions to ... 16 May 2019 -
Can quality assurance support universities in becoming engines of innovation?
Expert voices ... expect quality assurance to ensure that universities are fulfilling this task, which then raises the question of what kind of quality assurance is needed to do this. One of the characteristics of the ... 08 May 2019 -
Toward quality culture in learning and teaching
Expert voices Quality assurance processes are on often criticised for being too process-focused and not touching upon the core issues of learning and teaching. Remarks were made by policymakers and academics alike when ... 13 Mar 2019 -
Women in university leadership: subtle leaks in the pipeline to the top
Expert voices ... of international relations departments, quality assurance and communication departments ranged from 55% to 67%. However, the share of female heads or directors of research departments has remained unchanged ... 07 Mar 2019 -
The need to re-think research-based education
Expert voices ... higher status than education and teaching. While things are indeed changing, one could question whether the many strategies and initiatives taken to enhance the quality of learning and teaching are coherently ... 15 Feb 2019 -
Common ground in European learning and teaching
Expert voices For the past twenty years, the Bologna Process has provided a framework for European collaboration in higher education by promoting common degree structures and approaches to quality assurance, recognition ... 14 Feb 2019
