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Working together to take quality forward

Through a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, the 2013 edition of EQAF, entitled ‘Working together to take quality forward’, 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. This year the Forum will specifically explore how both individuals and organisations can better understand the role that quality assurance can play in their daily lives, get engaged and work together to take quality forward.

View the programme here. The final publication of this year’s EQAF is available here.

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Following is the material of the event:

•  2013 8th EQAF: Call for contributions (85 KB)
•  2013 8th EQAF: Programme (0.2 MB)
•  2013 8th EQAF: Publication (0.6 MB)
•  An empirical study to strengthen the Quality Assurance System within Western Balkans’ HEIs and Quality Assurance Agencies. (0.4 MB)
•  Analysing Implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance at Institutional Level: Outcomes of the IBAR project (0.3 MB)
•  ARQATA: An International QA Development Project Joint Efforts in a Post-Soviet Region (1.2 MB)
•  Assessment of Quality Cultures in Higher Education Institutions – First Results from the heiQUALITY Cultures Project (0.8 MB)
•  Closing the gaps: next steps towards transparent, consistent and credible European quality assurance (0.7 MB)
•  Comparative study on external evaluations of a higher education institution (0.3 MB)
•  Conceptualising Student Engagement: A Co-creation Perspective (2.2 MB)
•  Cross Border Quality Audit: The University of Graz Experience (0.5 MB)
•  Cross-Border Partnership for Quality Enhancement in Higher Education: Achievements of the IUCEA/DAAD/HRK Quality Assurance Initiative for East Africa (0.4 MB)
•  Cross-border Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area: New Developments (0.2 MB)
•  Dealing with engagement issues – an examination of professionals’ opinions on stakeholder involvement in quality assurance (0.4 MB)
•  Does Self Evaluation of Quality Contribute Towards the Instilling of Quality Culture in HEI's? (0.2 MB)
•  Engagement, Empowerment, Ownership – How to nurture the Quality culture in higher education (0.2 MB)
•  External QA moving across borders - QA agency’s experiences of a cross-national audit (0.6 MB)
•  Fostering quality assurance partnerships between staff and students: creating leadership skills in student representatives (0.7 MB)
•  Improving stakeholder participation in quality assurance in higher education institutions – Sharing the best practices (1.1 MB)
•  international & quality, a happy couple? (0.2 MB)
•  Meaning, motivation and learning: factors for educational quality at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (0.3 MB)
•  Obstacles to quality in higher education institutions: The views of academics (0.3 MB)
•  Peer Reviews in Higher Education Institutions (0.1 MB)
•  Promoting cooperation and trust through external quality assurance reports (1.0 MB)
•  Quality Assurance and the Social Dimension: Exploring the role of QA agencies in access, retention and employability (1.7 MB)
•  Quality culture: embracing the academic community in a “creativity agenda” (0.2 MB)
•  Quality for Learning – Presentation of the EIT Quality Assurance and Learning Enhancement Model for Master and Doctoral Programmes and “The EIT Handbook” (0.8 MB)
•  Quality in Higher Education: Windowdressing activities, bureaucratic rituals and the struggle for qualifying individuals (1.9 MB)
•  Quality of academic staff in Portuguese higher education institutions: a risk management approach (0.5 MB)
•  Quality, transparency and enhancement in doctoral education (1.3 MB)
•  Recent European policy developments in quality assurance (0.1 MB)
•  Roles of different actors in national quality assurance regimes: Who does what, and does it matter? (0.5 MB)
•  Stakeholders Participation in Revolutionary Development of the System of Quality of Education - Case Study of WULS-SGGW in Poland (0.7 MB)
•  Students as external evaluators in peer-review based EQA Five years of student participation in the Institutional Evaluation Programme (0.2 MB)
•  Students of evaluation - Experiences of student experts in the evaluations of Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council. (0.4 MB)
•  The importance of quality assurance in the development of extra-occupational courses of study (0.5 MB)
•  The potential impact of the internal service units on the quality culture in a higher education institution, and how to make optimal use of it. (0.5 MB)
•  The Power of International Networks. How International Cooperation Enabled the Austrian Students’ Union (ÖH) to Establish a QA Students Experts’ Pool (0.4 MB)
•  To which extent can evaluation and accreditation cultures be combined? A recent collaboration between AEQES and CTI for the joint evaluation and accreditation of civil engineering programmes raises the issue. (0.8 MB)
•  Toward a multi-perspective model of quality culture in Higher Education Institutions? (0.2 MB)
•  Working together for enhancement-led and voluntary institutional quality audit (0.2 MB)
•  Working together for quality teacher education in Flanders (0.4 MB)
•  Working together: students as partners. Student engagement and representation across the quality agenda (0.8 MB)
•  Yes, There is Impact. But is it Positive, Negative or "None of the Above"? The case of Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Biosciences of the University Autonoma de Barcelona (0.5 MB)