The meeting organised by SKVC (the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education) focused on challenges for quality assurance during the merging of higher education institutions. Many Lithuanian institutions are currently in such merging processes. More...

The European Students’ Union (ESU) was present at the 2018 Members’ Dialogue of EQAR held in Berlin on 27-28 November, hosted by the Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). More...

Organised by EUA, ENQA, EURASHE and ESU, the forum took place between 15 – 17 November 2018 and focused on how institutions and quality assurance agencies can build systems that encompass a broad range of activities, including learning and teaching, research, governance and administration, and service to society. More...

Yesterday, representatives from multilateral organisations, civil society, philanthropic foundations and the private sector gathered in Brussels for the Global Education Meeting (GEM) – a conference, convened by UNESCO, that focuses on the most pressing issues facing education today.  For the first time since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goal for Education (SDG 4) in 2015, policy makers and education experts came together to take stock of the progress made towards achieving this goal, and the challenges that remain. More...

Quality and Standards
"A brief outline of my position on quality and standards, submitted because it exists..." What follows is the shortest version ever of my 'Resource Profiles' paper, with some comments on quality recommendation thrown in. The item has received some comments also worth a look (and to which I will probably reply shortly). By Stephen Downes, Learning Circuits Blog, December 19, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

Quality Matters: Inter-Institutional Quality Assurance in Online Learning
Personally, I think that quality is best managed by a system of reviews and recommendations. This is because, as the article notes, everybody sees quality differently. That said, the authors here suggest that people "might not even know what to look for in assessing quality" and so have created a rubric of 40 elements alongside a quality management program. More...