CTI hosts the first meeting of the new ECA Board
On 1 October 2014 the CTI has hosted in Paris the first meeting of the new ECA Board, chaired by Rafael van Grieken (ANECA). Ms Izabela Kwiatkowska-Sujka (PKA) was appointed as Treasurer of the association. The approved minutes of the meeting of 17 June 2014 are available for the ECA Members here.
Lucien Bollaert “Quality Assurance in Europe (2005–2015)”
New article by Lucien Bollaert: Quality Assurance in Europe (2005–2015). From Internal and Institutional to External and International. This new article highlights the developments in external quality assurance requirements between the launch of the European Standards and Guidelines in Quality Assurance (ESG in 2005 and the forth- coming Ministerial Bologna Conference in Yerevan (Armenia) in 2015. In […]
EUA publishes ERA Progress Report
“The European University Association (EUA) has published details of how the organisation and its members are contributing to the development of the European Research Area. The EUA report outlines the main activities by organisations and its university members, structured around the five ERA priorities. It also highlights a series of key messages for future ERA […]
CTI renews its Presidency team
Following the partial renewal of its members on the 1st of July 2014, CTI’s plenary assembly elected on the 8th of July its new Presidency Team, for the term of 2014-2016. Laurent Mahieu has been elected President. He represents associations and professional organisations of engineers. Have also been elected as Vice-Presidents : Anne-Marie Jolly, representing […]
First joint programmes accredited on the basis of MULTRA
The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO) has recently recognised accreditation decisions taken by two German accreditation organisations regarding two joint programmes in European Studies. This makes the first mutual recognitions in the context of MULTRA a fact. On the basis of an accreditation by the German Agentur für Qualitätssicherung durch Akkreditierung von […]
Asia-Pacific Quality Network and ECA sign staff exchange protocol
As a result of their cooperation agreement ECA and APQN have started a staff exchange project between the two networks. This new project encourages the quality assurance agencies of both networks to exchange staff members with the purpose of peer learning. The member agencies of both networks are invited to act as host and sending agencies […]
NVAO’s position on MOOCs and online HE
In its memorandum “MOOCs and online HE” NVAO has further explored the potential of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), of online education in general, and of blended learning. This memorandum explores scenarios in which a higher education institution in the Netherlands or Flanders: is seeking the best way to handle the acknowledgement of online courses […]
Finally published: the underlying study for the European Commission’s Report on Progress in Quality Assurance
On 1 August 2014, the European Commission published a study by CHE Consult. This study provided the background material as part of the evidence base for the European Commission’s second Report on Progress in in Quality Assurance in Higher Education. This report, published on 28 January 2014, sets out how quality assurance is helping to establish […]
CHEA (US) plans external review of MOOCs
“A global quality platform to review non-institutional education providers is to be piloted by America’s Council for Higher Education Accreditation and its International Quality Group. The platform is aimed at protecting students and is a response to the explosion of non-traditional provision – including MOOCs – and increasingly international higher education. In a nutshell, the […]
Dutch government publishes new vision on internationalisation
Minister Bussemaker The Dutch government has published a letter to parliament with its new vision on internationalisation in HE and VET. An important aim is to redress the current imbalance between outbound and inbound mobility; there are less Dutch students studying abroad than there are foreign students studying in The Netherlands. As stated by […]
