ENQA – QAA meetingENQA – QAA meeting8-9 December 20058-9 December 2005Birmingham, UKBirmingham, UK

8 December, 13.30 – 14.30

Introductions to workshop themes

Audit as peer reviewAudit as peer review

Staffan Wahlén

ENQA Standards and ENQA Standards and GuidelinesGuidelines

Appropriate skills and competence to perform the task

Exercise of care in the selection of expertsInternational expertsParticipation of students

Audit as peer review?Audit as peer review?

Academic managers?International experts?Students?Stakeholders?Researchers?Teachers?Quality experts from outside academia?

International academic International academic managersmanagers

Do not know the national context well enough (ENQA Quality Convergence Study)

Language problems

but Different, (perhaps) unexpected

perspectives

StudentsStudents

What kind of student? Student as student or student as politician?

What do they know about the larger context?

butImportant perspectives

StakeholdersStakeholders

Who are the stakeholders?Do they know enough about the higher

education context?What can they contribute?

Quality experts from outside Quality experts from outside academiaacademia

Do they take the special character of the higher education context into consideration?

Too much ISO, TQM?

The ideal external expert audit The ideal external expert audit team?team?

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ENQA Seminar Birmingham 8-9 December 2005

Tine HolmThe Danish Evaluation Institute (EVA)

Integrating the Integrating the Bologna requirements Bologna requirements

in institutional in institutional evaluationevaluation

European standardsEuropean standards

Part 1 European standards and guidelines for internal quality assurance within higher education institutions

Part 2: European standards and guidelines for the external quality assurance of higher education

Part 1: Standards for Part 1: Standards for internal quality assuranceinternal quality assurance

Policy and procedures for quality assurance Approval, monitoring and periodic review

of programmes and awards Assessment of students Quality assurance of teaching staff Learning resources and student support Information systems Public information.

Part 1: Part 1: Policy and Policy and procedures for quality procedures for quality

assuranceassuranceStandard”Institutions should have a policy and associated procedures for the assurance of the quality and standards of their programmes and awards……”

Guidelines: ”The policy statement is expected to include:The relationship between teaching and research in the institution…”

Part 2: Standards for Part 2: Standards for external quality assuranceexternal quality assurance

Use of internal quality assurance procedures

Development of external quality assurance processes

Criteria for decisions Processes fit for purpose Reporting Follow-up procedures Periodic reviews System-wide analyses

Part 2: Part 2: Use of internal Use of internal quality assurance quality assurance

proceduresprocedures

Standard:”External quality assurance procedures should take into account the effectiveness of the internal quality assurance processes”.

Guidelines”The standards for internal QA in part 1 provide a valuable basis for the external QA assessment procedures”

Workshop (1)Workshop (1)

How far are you in integrating the European standards? And what have the process been?

o Involvement of/communication of standards to stakeholders

o Ensuring balance between national requirements and European requirements?

o Relationship standards/guidelines ?o Challenges?

Workshop (2)Workshop (2)

Is there a gap between what you are doing now (before integration of standards) and future evaluations (after integration of the standards)? (External QA)

- Change in procedures?

Workshop (3)Workshop (3)

Will the standards put extra requirements upon the HE institutions in your country? (internal QA)

- What additional requirements?- Need for national legislation?

Main challengesMain challenges

The readiness and willingness of the national and regional governments, the higher education institutions and the quality assurance agencies to implement the European standards and meet the Berlin and Bergen expectations.

The possibility to maintain subsidiarity as a central principle.

The different perspectives and goals of governments, agencies, higher education institutions, students and other stakeholders.