Accreditation and Recognition of Medical Schools
Author: Marta van Zanten* Accreditation is frequently viewed as a powerful tool for quality control and improvement of medical education programs, yet accreditation practices vary considerably worldwide. The Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) collaborates on various initiatives to enhance the quality of medical education accreditation, including the implementation […]
Hans de Wit: What is an International University?
Hans de Wit is Director of the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation, or CHEI, of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, and professor of internationalisation of higher education at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. Email: j.w.m.de.wit@hva.nl. Over the past few years a series of buzzwords – global citizenship, comprehensive […]
Is US accreditation moving away from the accountability function?
The US Senate seems intent to refocus accreditation to become mostly aimed at improvement and to scrap some of its accountability functions. In white papers released by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions accountability functions such as the link between accreditation and institutional eligibility for federal student aid and the powers of […]
ECA Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation launched at CeQuInt Conference.
Around 150 participants from 20 countries attended last month the ECA Conference “Assessing the Quality of Internationalisation” in Paris France. The conference focused on quality in internationalisation and answered the most pertinent questions from a quality assurance perspective. In the framework of the CeQuInt Project co-funded by the European Commission, quality assurance and internationalisation agencies have developed and tested in 12 […]
ECA Certification Group is installed
ECA has installed its Certification Group – which ensures overall consistency for the implementation of the ECA Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation by a system of qualitative evaluations of the applied methodology, i.e. assessment procedures and reports. This Certification Group includes representatives of agencies with relevant expertise in the assessment of internationalisation. The Certificate is organised as […]
Joint Programmes in Ireland
The Higher Education Authority of Ireland has published a report by Dr Frank McMahon on “Joint and double/multiple degrees in Ireland”. The report lists the joint programmes that are being provided by Irish universities and other bodies with full awarding powers, the Institutes of Technology and private colleges. Institutes of technology have delegated awarding powers […]
Two new members join ECA
At the occasion of the ECA Seminar in The Hague on 10 December 2014 the General Meeting of ECA has unanimously approved the membership of the following agencies. HCERES – High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education, France UKÄ -Swedish Higher Education Authority, Sweden ECA now counts 15 members in 11 countries. Warm welcome to […]
Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation to be launched
At the occasion of the ECA Seminar in The Hague on 10 December 2014 the General Meeting of ECA approved the Terms of Reference for the Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation and agreed on the establishment of the Certification Group. This will enable the award of the ECA Certificate in 2015. More information will be available soon […]
New Mutual Recognition Agreement in Engineering
Thirteen authorised agencies associated with ENAEE have signed a Mutual Recognition Agreement. They agree to make every reasonable effort to ensure that the bodies responsible for recognising engineering qualifications and/or for registering or licensing professional engineers to practice in its country or jurisdiction, accept the comparability of EUR-ACE® labelled programmes accredited by authorized agencies. http://www.enaee.eu/archives/7134
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 […]
