The E4-Group organised the 7th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) titled ‘How does quality assurance make a difference?‘ in Tallinn (Estonia) on 22-24 November 2012. The official website of the event is available here. Underneath are further information on:
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Through a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, the 2012 EQAF, entitled ‘How does quality assurance make a difference?’, combined practice-oriented or research-based discussions with presentations of current developments in quality assurance (QA). This year, the Forum specifically explored the impact of external and internal QA on higher education policies and institutional realities. In this context, the sessions aimed to address issues such as external evaluation and institutional follow-up; the relationship between QA, pedagogical approaches and student learning; QA supporting institutional aims and profiles; QA supporting informed decision-making; and the role of QA in globalised higher education.
View the programme of the 7th EQAF here. The final publication of this year’s EQAF is available here.
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- 2012 7th EQAF: Programme (46 KB)
- 2012 7th EQAF: Publication (2.5 MB)
- Accreditation Process in Kazakhstan: State Regulation, Procedures and Prospects (0.7 MB)
- Addressing your objectives and ensuring a prosperous learning environment (0.2 MB)
- Benchmarking, an appropriate tool for decision-making and improving or just hype? (0.2 MB)
- Cultural brokers and multilinguists: New roles for quality assurance professionals in the EHEA (0.9 MB)
- Dialectical reasoning around quality culture (0.3 MB)
- Do EQA and Accreditation really make a difference in Flanders’ Higher Education? (0.2 MB)
- E-xcellence: Quality assurance in e-learning; a co-operational model between universities and QA-agencies (0.4 MB)
- Enhancing Quality: Fidelity and Context (1.7 MB)
- Ensuring Student Engagement in Quality Arrangements has an Impact on the Student Experience (0.1 MB)
- European Students’ Union QUEST for quality for students project outcomes (1.1 MB)
- Gathering student feedback: how does it make a difference? (0.4 MB)
- How Does EXTERNAL Quality Assurance Make a Difference? (0.1 MB)
- How does quality assurance make a difference? Summing up the 7th EQAF (0.4 MB)
- How QA helps to promote students interests in Russia (0.2 MB)
- Impact of new standards on quality improvement of study programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (0.2 MB)
- Institutional Integration of Quality Assurance & Enhancement in an Irish University Context (0.1 MB)
- International Accreditation — Effects of National and Cultural Differences (0.2 MB)
- International cooperation in discipline-specific quality assurance: NCPA-AEC joint accreditation of Russian higher music education programmes (0.3 MB)
- Is quality assurance leading to enhancement? (0.3 MB)
- New International Policy Developments in QA: A risk based QA approach (0.3 MB)
- Organizing Quality Assurance for Multiple Programs in a Decentralized Organizational Setting – the Case of Copenhagen Business School (0.4 MB)
- ORPHEUS Consensus about Internal, External and International evaluation of PhD Programmes in Biomedicine and Health Sciences (0.3 MB)
- QA: Less Quality Assurance, more Questioning Assurance! Pleading for complexity, ruptures, and even some joy. (0.1 MB)
- QTIM&R: Quality Tools, Instruments, Methods and Results (1.4 MB)
- Quality assessment of the doctoral programmes as a supplement of the institutional evaluation – Polish model and experience (0.3 MB)
- Quality assurance and the learning journey: the value of monitoring progress for the student experience (0.3 MB)
- Quality Reviews in Service and Support Units: Value Added? (0.3 MB)
- Recent European policy developments in quality assurance (0.3 MB)
- SPEAQ Workshop: Practitioner-led quality assurance and enhancement (0.5 MB)
- The 'Q' word: What does it mean in your discipline? (1.4 MB)
- The Danish experience: An empirical study of the impact of accreditation on the quality work of higher education institutions (0.3 MB)
- The relationship between quality assurance and what students really know and can do after a period of study. Assessing achieved learning outcomes in an external quality assurance system (0.6 MB)
- Transitional Evaluation: A Special Case of External Evaluation of Higher Education in Estonia 2009-2011 (0.4 MB)