Call for participation: EUA project studies ‘quality culture’ in Europe’s Universities
EUA is launching a new project to examine the internal ‘quality culture’ within European universities, and how this has developed within the framework of the Bologna process reforms.
The quality of European higher education is at the heart of the Bologna Process and European governments have committed to supporting the development of quality assurance (QA) at the university, national and European level. In 2005, Education Ministers adopted the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) that had been proposed by the key stakeholder organisations. Until now there has been no specific study to look at the impact of these quality guidelines and how they have been adopted at the university level.
Together with its partners, the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) and QAA Scotland, and following its Quality Culture project EUA will analyse the development of quality culture in higher education institutions (HEIs) across Europe and provide an overall picture of the internal quality assurance in place in HEIs across the 46 Bologna Process countries. It will also seek to identify and disseminate good practices that apply to internal quality assurance.
The first step of the project – supported by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme - will be based around a survey of European universities and higher education institutions, in order to capture the institutional quality assurance processes in place. EUA encourages all its members to take part in the survey before the deadline of 30 March 2010.
To find out more about the project, please visit this website.
Published on: Friday, 5 February 2010 12:21