ECA Summer Workshop in Santiago de Compostela
Something to look forward to in 2016 for ECA members, observers and guests: the ECA Summer Workshop and Annual Meeting will be held in Santiago de Compostela. The event will be hosted by ACSUG on Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July 2016.
THE-ICE observer in ECA
The Board of ECA welcomes a new observer to ECA: the International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE-ICE) which has its headquarters in Australia. THE-ICE is a not-for-profit international accreditation agency originally funded by the Australian government from 2004 to 2008. THE-ICE is now an Australian-based QA agency committed in the recognition, the […]
Michel Cosnard appointed as President of HCERES
Since 30 October 2015, the French High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) operates with a renewed Board of 30 members, who were appointed by decree. Michel Cosnard was appointed to chair the agency for a mandate of 4 years. Several major projects will be started by HCERES in the next few […]
ECA training Assessing the Quality of Internationalisation held in The Hague
On 24 and 25 November 2015 the ECA training “Assessing the Quality of Internationalisation” was held at the NVAO offices in The Hague. Fourteen participants from seven countries followed the training which was facilitated by Axel Aerden (NVAO) and Maciej Markowski (PKA). The training prepared participants for the assessment of internationalisation in the framework of […]
ECA and NVAO organised successful seminar on QA of joint programmes
On 3 December 2015 ECA and NVAO organised the Seminar “National Implementation of the European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes”. More than 100 representatives of higher education institutions, joint programmes coordinators, QA agencies, governments and other stakeholders were present. The European approach for accreditation of joint programmes that was […]
Unibasq joins ECA
On 4 December 2015 the ECA member agencies have welcomed the Agencia de Calidad del Sistema Universitario Vasco/ Agency for Quality of the Basque University System (Unibasq) as new member of ECA. ) Unibasq started in 2006 and is a state owned body governed by private law attached to the Basque Government’s department responsible for […]
Josep Grifoll joins ECA Board
The ECA Board is happy to announce that Josep Grifoll has agreed to join as co-opted Board member. Josep Grifoll works with ECA member agency AQU Catalunya since 1997. He is currently technical director of AQU’s Quality Assessment Department and also member of the Register Committee of EQAR. Within ECA he is chairing Working Group 1 […]
New ECA Board member: Madalena Fonseca
The Board of ECA is happy to announce that Madalena Fonseca from ECA member agency A3ES (Portugal) has agreed to become Board member. The Board has co-opted Madalena Fonseca because of the vacancy that occurred as former ECA Chair Rafael van Grieken became Minister of the Region Madrid. For an overview of the composition of the […]
ECA webinar with Lucien Bollaert available
The second ECA webinar featured Lucien Bollaert who spoke on “Quality, Quality Assurance and Quality Culture in Higher Education”. “Why do we need quality? How is it created? And what is it?” were some of the fundamental questions that Lucien Bollaert elaborated on. The webinar was broadcasted on 20 October 2015 and is now available […]
Double accreditation by NVAO and EFMD is now possible
ECA member NVAO and the European management development network EFMD have signed a cooperation agreement. All the assessment processes and procedures that are required to have programmes accredited by both EFMD and NVAO can now be completed in one procedure. Joint accreditation will provide the Dutch and Flemish institutions that currently hold one of EFMD’s […]
