Consortium: NOHA Speaker: Julia Gonzalez

Workshop 4 30/11

Quality Assurance: academic and managerial aspects

Consortium: NOHA Speaker: Julia Gonzalez

QA: academic and managerial aspects

Four initial convictions and concerns :

1. High Quality Standards and Course Excellence are at the core of EM courses. – Concern: lack of resources

2. Quality needs a coherent whole when one element is missing all is at risk!– Concern: Ability to handle such a complexity

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Consortium: NOHA Speaker: Julia Gonzalez

QA: academic and managerial aspects

Four initial convictions and concerns :3. All EM course are committed in the general picture

– Concern: If one does not reach standards all the whole group is affected

4. EM course do not only depend on the Universities - Concern: Ministries are making decisions often moving in different directions

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Consortium: NOHA Speaker: Julia Gonzalez

Quality Enhancement- Internal Quality Programme specification: Research, relevance (employment), staff

Student Management: Promotion and selection, Student support Student follow up in Joint Programmes

Two crucial documents to be commonly used Tuning Higher Education Structures in Europe, Line 5 EUA Guidelines for quality enhancement in European Joint Masters Programmes

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• Student Management:

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Consortium: NOHA Speaker: Julia Gonzalez

Quality Enhancement- External Quality

Need for Accountability

Reflection on agents

TEEP II

Other experiences

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Consortium: NOHA Speaker: Julia Gonzalez

Four Key Words

Transparency

Relevance

Coherence

Sustainability- Long term

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Consortium: NOHA Speaker: Julia Gonzalez

Recommendations Quality as a theme for “developing a common identity” Quality in the information of the common portal: using the existing common European language Joint promotion and student selection linked with relevant third country universitieExhaustion ! Resources for quality management