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Quality in context – embedding improvement

The European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) provides a platform for discussion, professional development and exchange of experiences among the main stakeholders in quality assurance (QA). Specifically, the Forum will be of interest to rectors and vice-rectors responsible for QA, QA officers in higher education institutions, students, QA agency staff and researchers working on higher education or the QA field.

The 11th European Quality Assurance Forum, organised by ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE, will take place on 17-19 November 2016, hosted by the Slovenian Student Union and the University of Ljubljana, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Through a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, the 2016 EQAF, entitled ‘Quality in context – embedding improvement’, will combine practice-oriented or research-based discussions that will take place in the paper sessions and workshops with presentations of current developments in quality assurance. The Forum provides an opportunity for participants to update their knowledge and extend their professional development.

Forum objectives

Across Europe there are significant similarities in the ways in which the quality of higher education is assured and enhanced. Nonetheless there is wide-spread agreement that approaches to quality and QA need to be tailored to specific disciplinary, institutional and national contexts and cultures so to allow them to be embedded into daily work and be efficient. The 2016 Forum will explore these different contexts and consider how QA policies and practices are adapted to respect diversity and remain fit for purpose.

Participants

EQAF provides a platform for discussion, professional development and exchange of experiences among the main stakeholders in QA. Specifically, the Forum will be of interest to rectors and vice-rectors responsible for QA, QA officers in higher education institutions, students, QA agency staff and researchers working on higher education or the QA field.

Following are the practicalities of the event:

Organisers

Following is the material of the event:

•  2016 11th EQAF: Call for contributions (0.2 MB)
•  2016 11th EQAF: Call for host (68 KB)
•  2016 11th EQAF: Paper submission form (0.2 MB)
•  2016 11th EQAF: Programme (0.3 MB)
•  2016 11th EQAF: Programme sessions (0.3 MB)
•  2016 11th EQAF: Workshop submission form (0.2 MB)
•  A 360° stakeholder perspective in monitoring quality assurance (2.3 MB)
•  A Research and Evaluation Framework to Monitor Impacts of Curriculum Reform in Maynooth University (0.4 MB)
•  An Exploration of the Competency Framework for External Quality Assurance Practitioners (0.4 MB)
•  An overview of the Bologna Process 2016 (1.2 MB)
•  Bologna and Quality Assurance -impact, interest and issues? (0.6 MB)
•  Collaboration between student QA pools– Embedding improvement and enhancing quality of student QA pools in Austria, Germany and Switzerland (0.6 MB)
•  Developing engaging Quality Assurance policies – a practice-based case study (0.2 MB)
•  Developing pedagogies as means for improving quality: Learning and Teaching as a European priority (0.7 MB)
•  Developing pedagogies as means for improving quality: Learning and Teaching as a European priority (0.6 MB)
•  Development of teaching quality and teaching competences through a teaching portfolio – findings from a pilot project at the University of Graz (0.2 MB)
•  Embedding Improvement through Student Engagement (0.6 MB)
•  Good practice in internal QA of joint programmes, based on the ESG (0.3 MB)
•  How does the context influence IQA? A focus on factors that condition the variations of IQA (1.9 MB)
•  How to make quality assurance processes more meaningful to teaching staff – a proposal from the field of music (0.3 MB)
•  Introducing a new national QA system in Sweden. A discussion on opportunities and challenges (0.3 MB)
•  Key Considerations for Cross-Border Quality Assurance (0.4 MB)
•  Measuring Course Quality: Development of a Micro-Analysis Tool (1.1 MB)
•  NVAO’s Appreciative Approach, a new philosophy to strengthen internal and external quality assurance (0.2 MB)
•  Practical look into the European Approach for the QA of JP (0.9 MB)
•  Quality assurance frameworks in context: a diversified implementation of the ESG by various French-speaking quality assurance agencies (0.2 MB)
•  Quality Culture and Excellence in HE –Some Lessons learned from a Norwegian perspective (0.6 MB)
•  Quality Hazards in the Learning Outcome Model (0.4 MB)
•  Research evaluation @ University of Graz - reality, burden or future prospect? (1.0 MB)
•  Small is (sometimes) beautiful: a case of Scotland and Montenegro - presentation (3.5 MB)
•  Small is (sometimes) beautiful: a case of Scotland and Montenegro - speech (0.4 MB)
•  Student satisfaction surveys as a quality enhancement tool: How many surveys and questions do we need? (0.6 MB)
•  Student-centred learning and quality in higher education: What? Why? How? (0.3 MB)
•  Students Creating Change (0.5 MB)
•  The impact of internal quality assurance on teaching and learning in academics’ perceptions (0.8 MB)
•  The Quality Culture Paradox and its Implications – is there a Way Out? (0.5 MB)
•  The relevance of international experts in capturing the national higher education context in institutional evaluations (0.4 MB)
•  The ‘soft’ side of quality: positive effects of policy change in the Netherlands, a case study (0.3 MB)
•  What knowledge, skills, and values should evaluation experts hold? (0.6 MB)

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