Third European Quality Assurance Forum, 20-22 November 2008, Budapest, Hungary

The 3^rd European Quality Assurance Forum will take place on 20-22 November 2008 at Corvinus University of Budapest.
Following the success of the last forum which attracted more than 500 participants from across Europe, this year's edition will explore European and international trends in Quality Assurance. The EC-funded event is again co-organised by the E4 group: EUA, the European Students Union (ESU), the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE).
The event aims to enable participants to discuss how higher education institutions and QA agencies are responding to new forms of accountability.  It will also analyse the unintended consequences of these new forms of accountability, and whether they have the desired impact on quality levels.
The event is aimed at 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.    Visit the event website. Register now for the QA Forum.
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, is hosted by Corvinus University (Budapest, Hungary) on 20 – 22 November 2008.
The specific objectives of this third forum are:

• 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 have the desired impact on quality levels and to examine their unintended consequences