The E4-Group organised the 3rd European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) titled ‘Trends in Quality Assurance‘ in Budapest (Hungary) on 20-22 November 2008. The official website of the event is available here. Underneath are further information on:
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The 3rd European Quality Assurance Forum ‘Trends in Quality Assurance’ explored European and international trends in quality assurance. It examined the implications of these developments for quality assurance in European higher education and internationally and asked, specifically, if these developments increase quality levels in higher education.
Following the success of the first two European Quality Assurance fora (respectively, at the Technical University of Munich and Sapienza Universita di Roma), the third forum, co-organised by ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE and supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission, was hosted by Corvinus University (Budapest, Hungary) on 20–22 November 2008.
Contributions
The specific objectives of this third forum were: to gain an understanding of how higher education institutions and QA agencies are responding to new forms of accountability; to analyse whether these new forms of accountability the desired impact on quality levels and to examine their unintended consequences.
A post-conference publication Trends in Quality Assurance 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.
Organisers
European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) - The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) is a voluntary association of European quality assurance agencies and currently comprises 40 members and 49 affiliates. Its aim is... Read more
European Students’ Union (ESU) - The European Students’ Union (ESU) is an umbrella organisation of 47 National Unions of Students from 39 countries. The aim of ESU is to represent and promote the educational, social,... Read more
European University Association (EUA) - The European University Association (EUA) has over 850 members across 47 countries, making it the largest and most comprehensive organisation representing universities and national university associations in Europe. As the... Read more
European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE) - EURASHE is the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education that offer professionally orientated programmes and are engaged in applied research within the Bologna cycles. EURASHE represents universities of applied sciences... Read more- 2008 3rd EQAF: Call for contributions (71 KB)
- 2008 3rd EQAF: Publication (0.8 MB)
- A case study between Hungarian and British institutions which highlights quality issues related to Recognition of Qualifications (0.2 MB)
- A Proposal for a Performance Indicator Model for the Spanish Higher Education System (5.0 MB)
- An audit model in Croatia - A study based on a pilot project of three HEIs (0.3 MB)
- An audit process as a tool for quality assurance and enhancement at the University of Helsinki (0.2 MB)
- AUDIT Programme: an Initiative to Promote Internal Quality Assurance Systems in Higher Education Institutions (84 KB)
- Australia’s Higher Education Quality Framework – Components and Current Challenges (89 KB)
- Bergthora Snaebjornsdottir’s (ESU) response to Lee Harvey’s key note speech - "Democratising quality" at the 3rd EQAF in Budapest, 20th – 22nd November 2008 (32 KB)
- Concept of Complex Quality Management in the HEI Strategy (0.3 MB)
- Criteria Identification for Study Program Quality Assessment and Ranking (0.2 MB)
- Democratising quality (41 KB)
- Developing internal QA mechanisms - Towards an East African Quality Assurance framework (43 KB)
- Developing the institutional quality management system The case of the Corvinus University of Budapest (39 KB)
- Developments to encourage Quality Enhancement : a case study (0.1 MB)
- E-xcellence+: European wide introduction of QA in e-learning; a benchmarking approach (34 KB)
- Enhancing Education Quality Assurance Using Data Mining Case Study: Arab International University Systems (0.1 MB)
- Flexibility through Learning Outcomes: Implications for Quality (93 KB)
- Four Years of Experience Using Quality Assurance Systems: Lessons Learned from three Institutions (0.8 MB)
- Future directions for the Scottish enhancement-led approach to quality (0.1 MB)
- Governance and evaluation in the Italian University system: an analysis of the Italian experience (61 KB)
- Governance Reform and Change (0.2 MB)
- Graz Quality Management Model for Universities (0.6 MB)
- How to implement a Quality Assurance model? – a concrete example of a policy for the quality work in the educational area at the University of Aarhus (94 KB)
- Integrated Quality Management System at Tomsk Polytechnic University (0.4 MB)
- Intentional and Unintentional Consequences of Evaluation (49 KB)
- International Trends in Quality Assurance (1.7 MB)
- Joint NARIC and ENQA Diploma Supplement Project (0.1 MB)
- Learning Outcomes (0.6 MB)
- On the way to mutual understanding: the terminology of quality assurance (15 KB)
- Perpetual Improvement of Quality in Higher Education Institutes (69 KB)
- Presidents’ panel - EUA contribution (31 KB)
- Presidents’ panel – ENQA contribution (16 KB)
- Presidents’ panel – ESU contribution (24 KB)
- Presidents’ panel – EURASHE contribution (45 KB)
- QA Conclusions from Electronic Database and Parallel Evaluation of Doctoral Schools in Hungary (70 KB)
- Quality Assurance on the Road: Finland and Austria in Comparison (84 KB)
- Quality Management System – a good aid in creating a new joint culture for merging universities: A case study (1.1 MB)
- Quality procedures in European Higher Education: ‘Lessons’ from the ENQA 2008 survey and future directions (0.9 MB)
- Reflections on the Forum (revised) (40 KB)
- Review on the quality of teaching in higher education Case studies / good practice paper (56 KB)
- Selecting and training students for the external review panels: the Romanian Experience (0.2 MB)
- Students’ QA Experiences: An introduction to the Institutional Audits and Programme Accreditation (1.2 MB)
- Teaching Observation: Does it Develop Teaching? A Case Study from South East European University (SEEU) (71 KB)
- The Actors’ Lenses: On understanding prevailing conditions for introducing quality assurance measures in an institution (57 KB)
- The challenge of writing competency-based learning outcomes (0.3 MB)
- The Emperor Has No Clothes? Rankings and the Shift from QA to World-Class Excellence (0.3 MB)
- The Future of the Bologna Process (1.1 MB)
- Thematic quality review as a supplement to departmental quality reviews: a case study within the Irish university system (74 KB)
- Towards Institutional Accreditation: The Swiss Experience in external QA (0.5 MB)
- Training of students as experts for external quality assurance – the Swiss experience (79 KB)
- Universities and Rankings – the multi-purpose game (0.4 MB)
- Update on the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) (92 KB)
- Valuing the Student Voice – Evidence from the UK (49 KB)
- Where have all the students gone? Measuring the Output of Higher Education and relating it to Student Feedback Measures (91 KB)