IMO in Sweden accredited by ZEvA
International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Kitack Lim has welcomed Sweden’s ongoing support to the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö following a meeting with Ms. Anna Johansson, Sweden’s Minister for Infrastructure on 27 January 2016. The World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö, Sweden is a postgraduate maritime university founded by IMO, a specialized agency of […]
Board and Secretariat of ECA wish you a Happy New Year!
For the major news items in 2015 see: ECA NEWS IN 2015.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ECA Webinar: Hans de Wit on Internationalisation of HE in Europe
ECA has started it first webinar with a lecture by Prof Hans de Wit, Director of the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) at Boston College, USA. Click on the pdf for a short bio of Hans de Wit. Title of the webinar: “National Strategies and the Future of Internationalisation of Higher Education in Europe”. […]
La Salle University in Colombia responds to award of ECA Certificate
La Salle is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It has served as an opportunity to reflect upon our mission commitments and the work done in Colombia. We are convinced that only through good education Colombia will surpass so many years of blackness and uncertainty. Education is not a game, let alone its quality. We […]
Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation awarded to La Salle University in Colombia
For the first time ECA has awarded a Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation to a university outside Europe. A panel of four experts chaired by Prof Hans de Wit and facilitated by the National Accreditation Council of Colombia (CNA) assessed La Salle University in Bogotá, Colombia. The procedure was part of ECA’s CeQuInt project. The […]
Good practice from Laurea (Finland) published
A new good practice in internationalisation has been published on ECA’s Internationalisation Platform. The good practice concerns a Learning by Developing operational model as developed by Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Vantaa, Finland. Click here for the description of the good practice
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 […]
