Objectives
- To develop a national framework for quality assurance
- To build on the capacity of relevant actors in HEIs, PAAHE and MoES to manage a process- and outcome-based approach to quality assurance and self-assessment processes
- To enhance the external and internal quality assurance systems drawing on the process- and outcome-based approach
- To promote student and academic staff involvement in university self-assessment
- To promote an active dialogue between the stakeholders bringing in shared values on which to build the QA system
Activities
- Training relevant actors in HEIs, PAAHE and MoES
- Refined HEI internal quality assurance frameworks
- Enhancement of internal quality assurance units
- Pilot self-assessment by the HEIs
- Site-visit by external peer review panels, report
Results
- Learning Material en | Alignment of the Albanian Higher Education System with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG)
- Approaches to internal QA aligned with the external QA approaches promulgated by the PAAHE and are in line with the European Standard Guidelines (ESG)
- Enhanced internal QA system at HEIs drawing on the process and outcome-based approach
- A strong background for a tradition of an informed and productive involvement of students
Partners
- University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany, coordinator)
- Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities (Netherlands)
- Université du Maine – Le Mans Le Mans (France)
- Vysoká škola manažerské informatiky a ekonomiky (Czech Republic)
- American University of Tirana (Albania)
- European University of Tirana (Albania)
- Fan S. Noli University (Albania)
- The Aleksandër Moisiu University of Durrës (Albania)
- University “Pavaresia” Vlore (Albania)
- Aleksander Xhuvani University (Albania)
- Public Agency for Higher Education Accreditation (Albania)
- Ministry of Education and Science of Albania (Albania)
