Embedding Quality Culture in Higher Education

Hosted by the Technische Universität München, funded by the Socrates Programme and co-organised by EUA, ENQA, ESIB and EURASHE, the 1st European Quality Assurance Forum ‘Embedding Quality Culture in Higher Education’ gathered a very broad range of higher education actors from across forty-five countries in Europe: rectors and vice-rectors, quality officers in higher education institutions, students, leaders of quality assurance and accreditation agencies, ministry officers, Bologna Promoters and members of the Bologna Follow-up Group.

The major goal of the 2006 Forum was to develop a shared understanding of ways to develop further a European dimension for quality assurance. Specifically, the objectives were: (1) to promote a sound approach to QA by encouraging internal quality developments in HEIs and an appropriate balance between the implementation of the required tools to assure quality and the need to foster creativity in research and education; and (2) to foster research focused on QA. The programme is available here.

Contributions

A post-conference publication Embedding Quality Culture in Higher Education has been produced, based on some of the papers presented at the Forum as well as more extensive articles. This publication is intended to contribute to the sustainability of the Forum’s outcomes by providing a wider audience with up to date information on current debates on quality assurance in Europe.

Following are the practicalities of the event:

Organisers

Following is the material of the event:

•  2006 1st EQAF: Programme (1.3 MB)
•  2006 1st EQAF: Publication (0.4 MB)
•  A Nordic Perspective on European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance Agencies (0.1 MB)
•  Bureaucracy: the enemy of a quality culture (0.1 MB)
•  Bureaucracy: the enemy of a quality culture - presentation (47 KB)
•  Central or decentral? Tailored solutions for course evaluation as a tool for quality development (0.2 MB)
•  Contribution and limits of IT based Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET): A case study at the IUT of the Université d’Auvergne, France (64 KB)
•  Developing the institutional process quality – the process accreditation approach (0.9 MB)
•  Embedding graduate survey indicators into internal quality assurance systems. What can institutions learn from graduate surveys? (0.8 MB)
•  Engaging Students in the Assurance and Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (96 KB)
•  EUA Quality Culture Project (0.5 MB)
•  European Quality Forum Conclusions (0.6 MB)
•  European Standards for Quality: Culture or management? Control or improvement (0.3 MB)
•  External Quality Assurance Requirements and limitations; Some theses and questions for discussion (28 KB)
•  Gender and Diversity as Structural Components of Quality in New (Engineering) Study Programs (0.2 MB)
•  Gender and Diversity as Structural Components of Quality in New (Engineering) Study Programs - presentation (0.5 MB)
•  Higher Education Quality in Florence University: First Analysis of a Self-Assessment Model Implementation (87 KB)
•  Higher Education Quality in Florence University: First Analysis of a Self-Assessment Model Implementation - presentation (0.2 MB)
•  HIS@TUM – Enhancing Quality of Service in Campus Management (21 KB)
•  HIS@TUM – Enhancing Quality of Service in Campus Management - presentation (0.1 MB)
•  How to Evaluate Study Program Quality? (48 KB)
•  Impact of Quality Processes (0.6 MB)
•  Implementation of Quality Management System according to ISO 9001 at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava (0.3 MB)
•  Implementation of Quality management system according to ISO 9001 at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava - presentation (0.3 MB)
•  Institutional Program Accreditation as a Force for Change in South Africa Higher Education Institutions (52 KB)
•  Instruments for Raising Quality Culture in a Network of Universities (1.0 MB)
•  Internal QA in an external audit culture (1.7 MB)
•  Issues in the protection of academic standards: Assuring quality assurance in asse ssment (0.1 MB)
•  Linking Quality Management with Mission and Strategy (72 KB)
•  Linking Quality Management with Mission and Strategy - presentation (43 KB)
•  Nurturing a Quality Culture in Teaching and Learning - Dealing with ambivalences from an institutional perspective (0.6 MB)
•  Promotion of Quality Culture in International Cooperation with Special Focus on Joint Programmes (0.5 MB)
•  Quality - A Change Generator for Higher Education (0.2 MB)
•  Quality - A Change Generator for Higher Education - presentation (0.7 MB)
•  Quality Assurance and the Bologna and Lisbon Objectives (48 KB)
•  Quality Assurance in Universities of applied Sciences (1.5 MB)
•  Quality Assurance in Universities of applied Sciences – Linking Higher Education with company structures (0.2 MB)
•  Quality Assurance, Theoretical Implications, and Practical Implementation: Quality versus Standards in the Case of SEEU (0.2 MB)
•  Quality Assurance, Theoretical Implications, and Practical Implementation: Quality versus Standards in the Case of SEEU - presentation (1.4 MB)
•  Quality culture in research education and training, outside of traditional research-intensive university systems: A QA agency perspective (0.3 MB)
•  Quality culture, quality assurance and impact: Overview of discussions (48 KB)
•  Quality improvement in the Irish university sector through the implementation of recommendations arising from quality assurance reviews in individual Irish universities: a model for partnership between quality assurance agencies and higher education insti (75 KB)
•  Quality management at Tomsk State University: Key processes and documentation (4.5 MB)
•  Quality Management in eLearning at FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences (0.2 MB)
•  Quality Management in eLearning at FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences - presentation (0.3 MB)
•  Quality Management vs. Quality Control: Latest Developments in Estonian Higher Education (70 KB)
•  Quality Management vs. Quality Control: Latest Developments in Estonian Higher Education - presentation (1.2 MB)
•  Steering by engagement: Towards an integrated model for planning and evaluation in Higher Education Institutes (0.1 MB)
•  Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability? External Quality Assurance in the Nordic Countries 1996-2006 (0.1 MB)
•  Structure - focussed evaluation at the level of departments: The Frankfurt Model (1.6 MB)
•  Student Participation in External Quality Assurance in Flanders (0.2 MB)
•  Student Participation in External Quality Assurance in Germany (0.3 MB)
•  Student Participation in External Quality Assurance in Slovenia (0.3 MB)
•  Student Participation in Quality Processes: Strengths and challenges (0.5 MB)
•  The Development of an Internal Quality Assurance Policy for Research at the University of Cyprus (0.1 MB)
•  The Development of an Internal Quality Assurance Policy for Research at the University of Cyprus - presentation (0.6 MB)
•  The Effects of Quality Assurance in Universities: Empirical Evidence from three Cases (0.2 MB)
•  The practice of self-evaluation by 17 higher education institutions of Ile-de-France (0.1 MB)
•  The Research and Academic Staff commitment agreement (1.4 MB)
•  The Scottish enhancement-led approach (53 KB)
•  The Scottish enhancement-led approach to quality - presentation (0.9 MB)
•  What is quality? (0.5 MB)