On 24-25 August 2015, the ASEAN and European Union Support to Higher Education in ASEAN Region (SHARE) project organised the first in a series of SHARE’s policy dialogues. High-level education officials, academicians and researchers from ASEAN Member States and other project stakeholders attended this two-day event which was held at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. More...

During the event, attended by around 80 participants from the Western Balkans and the rest of Europe, project partners presented their experiences from the project and discussed the lessons learnt. Topics included the enhancement of quality culture, developing an action plan for internal QA, and linking QA to strategic management. Participants also heard about the transferability of European practice to Jordan, through a presentation from the EQuAM project (“Enhancing quality assurance management in Jordanian Universities”). More...

EUA has published a new report examining current European trends in quality assurance (QA) in higher education. The report “ESG Part 1: Are universities ready?” outlines what is known about the current status of implementation of each standard of Part I of the current Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European higher education area (ESG).
The ESG were recently updated, with the revised version having been approved by the Bologna ministerial meeting in May 2015. More...

The first webinar will include a discussion on “Achievements and next steps of the Bologna Process” and will take place on 30 September 2015, at 14.00 CEST. BFUG representatives from several EHEA countries will assess the achievements of the Bologna reforms and discuss the goals of the Bologna Process until 2018, based on the Yerevan Ministerial Communiqué adopted by the Ministers of Education in May 2015. More...

The EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) in Brussels that manages Eurydice has published a special report titled “The Organisation of the Academic Year in Higher Education, 2015/16” providing information on how the academic year in European universities is organised across 37 countries. More...