By Michaela Martin. As higher education systems expand and diversify, a potential decline in the quality of higher education has become a growing concern worldwide. More...
13 avril 2016
13 avril 2016
Call for host: EQAF 2017 and 2018
Following a decade of successful EQAFs, EUA and its fellow organisers are looking for universities to host the Forum in November 2017 and 2018. Joint bids between universities and members of the other organising associations (quality assurance agencies, student unions and professional higher education institutions) are strongly encouraged. Universities in countries where EQAF has not previously been held are especially invited to submit applications. More...
13 avril 2016
EQUIP project: learn more about ESG 2015
One aim of the "Enhancing Quality through Innovative Policy and Practice" (EQUIP) project is to offer quality assurance (QA) practitioners opportunities to learn about the changes in QA that are currently taking place in Europe. This spring the project consortium is organising a series of events with this aim in mind. More...
13 avril 2016
EQAF 2016: call for contributions
A call for contributions is now open for the 11th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF), which will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 17 to 19 November 2016. More...
6 avril 2016
Not All Rubrics Are Equal: A Review of Rubrics for Evaluating the Quality of Open Educational Resources
The rapid growth in Internet technologies has led to a proliferation in the number of Open Educational Resources (OER), making the evaluation of OER quality a pressing need. In response, a number of rubrics have been developed to help guide the evaluation of OER quality; these, however, have had little accompanying evaluation of their utility or usability. More...
6 avril 2016
Maintaining Quality within Institutions
Maintaining Quality within Institutions focuses on how people undertake, define, measure, monitor and improve quality and quality assurance processes and procedures within tertiary education. Tertiary education institutions are under mounting pressure to demonstrate their quality as a measure of social and financial accountability to students, the public and the government. More...
6 avril 2016
External Quality Assurance
This subject covers key elements of international approaches to QA in tertiary education. These include:
- QA for higher education
- External QA roles and responsibilities
- Networks of external QA agencies
- Standards applied by external QA agencies
- Emerging challenges for external QA agencies. More...
4 avril 2016
Measures to boost academic working conditions, quality
The government of President Alassane Ouattara has adopted measures to improve working conditions for university lecturers and researchers in Côte d’Ivoire, and to raise the quality of education. Read more...
4 avril 2016
There is no substitute for good quality teaching
By Nita Temmerman. It is a privilege to be part of the education system, whether as a student, a teacher, a researcher or as a leader/manager. I have occupied all these roles as well as that of parent of a school and now university student. Read more...
3 avril 2016
Private college St Patrick's falls short in QAA review
By John Morgan. Improvements required in two out of four areas at college where students claimed £259 million in state loans in three years. More...
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