The Higher Education Authority and Quality and Qualifications Ireland are delighted to announce the establishment of a memorandum of understanding. Reflecting a shared commitment to enhancing the performance and quality of Irish higher education, the memorandum of understanding provides a framework for cooperation and communication between the HEA and QQI, as well as for close partnership-working with the higher education sector, to ensure the coordination and complementarity of the two organisations’ activities. It sets out a range of actions, to be implemented over the period 2015–2017, to support the 4 key commitments presented in the document—commitment to coherence of approach, to alignment of activities, to Ireland in an international context, and to partnerships for enhancement.
Download HEA-QQI MoU 2015-2017. More...
A Cedefop expert workshop on 26 and 27 March addressed the different mechanisms that ensure the quality of certification process in initial vocational education and training (IVET) so that a qualification can be credible and trusted by all. More...
Par Séverine Dégallaix. Le dernier ajustement de la norme ISO 9001 remontait à 2008, sa dernière véritable actualisation à 2000. Une mise à jour s’imposait donc. C’est désormais chose faite avec la version 2015, qui impose aux entreprises de nouvelles obligations en matière de qualité. Voir l'article...
By . The Royal Academy of Engineering has added its voice to calls for new metrics to be used in universities to assess teaching quality. More...
By Sawai Boonma. At the cabinet meeting in Prachuap Khiri Khan province last week, the governor proposed that a new university be built at tambon Bo Nok, south of the provincial centre. His justification for the new university for the new university was that young people of the province would not have to go far from home for higher education. More...
OPCABAIA s'engage dans le contrôle de la qualité des prestations délivrées par les organismes de formation qui sollicitent ses financements, au travers d'une Charte.
Cette démarche devance et s’inscrit dans les objectifs et les critères définis par le décret d’application à paraître sur la qualité des actions de la formation professionnelle continue.
Le projet de décret relatif à la qualité des actions de formation professionnelle continue est en cours d'examen. Il fixera les modalités selon lesquelles les financeurs de la formation (Opca, Pôle emploi, Régions, État, Agefiph) seront tenus de s’assurer de la capacité des prestataires à dispenser une formation de qualité.
Consulter la charte. Voir l'article...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stop Saying “High Quality”
David Wiley, iterating toward openness, 2015/03/27
I've been at the Hewlett OER grantees conference in Sausalito the last few days and I find myself agreeing with David Wiley in this post: "The biggest surprises to me were the number of times the phrase “high quality” came up, and what a strong, negative reaction I had each time I heard the word." More...
By Shirley Pearce. There are shifts in both the nature of the provision and in the demands of those who seek information about the quality of this provision. Over the next decade there will be greater diversity of providers and provision, new applications of digital and internet-based learning, and increasingly global patterns of delivery. More...
EUA is pleased to announce that the 10th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) will take place in London from 19 to 21 November 2015, hosted by the Quality Assurance Agency and UCL Institute of Education. /https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
