CHEPS study on bureaucratic burden of quality assurance
On December 8th, the Dutch parliament received a CHEPS study on external quality assurance in higher education systems in several countries, focusing on Flanders, Germany, Austria and Norway. The study aimed to find out how in those systems the bureaucratic burden of quality assurance is perceived and what is being done to reduce the burden. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Presentation: Report on Progress in Quality Assurance by the European Commission
At the occasion of the ECA Association annual meeting in Porto this month, Daniel Gohring – guest speaker from the European Commission – has presented to the ECA members the European Commission’s Report on Progress in Quality Assurance. Read the original QAzette article: Report on Progress in Quality Assurance in Higher Education On behalf of the […]
