Capacity building in Quality Assurance, experiences and exchange

Friday 18 July 2014

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The Tempus training event hold in Utrecht at QANU [a quality assurance agency which primarily aims at assessing degree and research programmes offered by universities in the Netherlands] aimed to build on the capacity of the Albanian Higher Education System – and its relevant actors in HEIs, the Public Agency for Accreditation of Higher Education(PAAHE) and the Ministry of Science and Sports to be strengthened in managing a process- and outcome-based methodology.

It is essential to build on the capacity of the local implementers rather than importing expertise from more advanced systems supporting the achievement on of the main project objectives: To develop a national framework for quality assurance and approaches to internal QA aligned with the external QA approaches promulgated by the PAAHE and in line with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG).

Moreover the event aimed at inter-project coaching with the Tempus projects INARM and QUADRIGA.

The training topics:

  • From qualification framework to assessment of competences and achieved learning outcomes.
  • Quality Assurance in

  1. The Netherlands (Utrecht University)
  2. Poland (Marie Curie Sklodowska University Lublin)
  3. France (Université le Mans)

  • Insight into new Albanian HE reform: issues of finance, research, teaching and admissions (launched in early May 2014) > effects on our existing IQAUs?
  • Albanian HE system alignment to ESG [1.1 to 1.7]

For further information please contact research@cesie.org.

Tempus IV – Structural Measure, Governance Reform