ECA joint programmes training held in Cologne
On 21 and 22 September 2015 the first ECA training “Assessing Joint Programmes” was held at the AQAS offices in Cologne. There were fourteen participants from higher education institutions and QA agencies, as well as a student expert. The feedback received from participants was positive. ECA will therefore continue these trainings next year, taking into […]
Miguel Ángel Galindo appointed as Director of ANECA
ANECA’s Board of Trustees, the governance body of ECA member agency the National Agency for Quality Evaluation and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA), has appointed Miguel Ángel Galindo as new Director of the Agency. Miguel Ángel Galindo is Professor for Applied Economics at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and was the acting Deputy-Director for Programme and […]
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 […]
Joint Programmes from A to Z: Now on ECApedia
In search for a publication that presents an overview of all good practice in coordinating joint programmes? The recently published ‘Joint Programmes from A to Z. A reference guide for practitioners’ is exactly doing that. Already available as a pdf publication, the guide is now also available as an online portal in ECApedia. The ‘Joint […]
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
Sweden probes the evaluation of doctoral education
The Swedish Higher Education Authority, UKÄ, has launched a new model for evaluating doctoral education. A pilot round started in March 2015. After the completion of the pilot round by June 2016, the evaluations of doctoral educations are expected to start in the Autumn of 2016… read more
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 […]
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 […]
