Collection of selected contributions from the 6th European Quality Assurance Forum

The European Quality Assurance Forum has been organised each year since 2006 by the E4 Group (ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE). The sixth Forum, held at the University of Antwerp and Artesis University College Antwerp, Belgium, in November 2011, attracted more than 400 participants, thus confirming the Forum’s role as the main annual discussion platform for all interested parties in the field of European quality assurance (QA). A collection of selected contributions from the 2011 Forum is now available in a new publication.
Entitled “Quality and Trust: at the heart of what we do”, the publication gathers a representative sample of the contributions to the 2011 Forum. It includes some of the keynote presentations as well as a few of the many excellent papers that generated lively discussions in the parallel sessions.
During the three-day event, participants explored how quality assurance can improve so as to respond better to the increasing expectations towards QA processes, but also how realistic these expectations are. As the demands for transparency and accountability are the focus of attention, various presentations recalled that the primary purpose of both internal and external QA processes remains that of ensuring and enhancing quality and thus promoting trust.
The new online publication can be downloaded here.
The next European Quality Assurance Forum will be held from 22 to 24 November 2012 at Tallinn University, Estonia, with the theme of “How does Quality Assurance Make a Difference?”. The call for contributions in the form of papers and workshop proposals is currently open and can be accessed here.