eqar's function in the ehea and possible tools to facilitate recognition
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European Quality AssuranceRegister for Higher Education
EQAR's function in the EHEA &possible tools to facilitate recognition
ENIC-NARIC Networks Annual Meeting20 June 2016, Amsterdam
Colin Tück
EHEA framework forquality assurance
European Standards andGuidelines (ESG) Modernised and improved 2015
version Common ground for QA in
Europe
European Quality AssuranceRegister (EQAR) Agencies that comply
substantially with the ESG – athome and abroad
Processes for substantivechanges and complaints
43 registered QAAs
Governmental memberswithout registered agency
European Quality Assurance Registerfor Higher Education (EQAR)
Established by E4 Group (ENQA, ESU,EUA, EURASHE) at Ministers' request,jointly governed by stakeholders andgovernments
Non-profit and independent, acting inthe public interest
Mission: Transparency and trust Recognition Confidence in EHEA
Responsibility: manage register ofQAAs that comply with the ESG
Stakeholderorganisations
Governments
Observers
Register CommitteeIndependent QA experts,
nominated by stakeholders
approves
EQAR in practice
Registration based on external review of agency
Annual updates on reviews and countries
Substantive change reports
Third-party complaints
Periodic renewal every 5 years
Yerevan Communiqué(2015)
“By 2020 we are determined to achieve an EHEA[European Higher Education Area] where our commongoals are implemented in all member countries toensure trust in each other’s higher educationsystems; where automatic recognition ofqualifications has become a reality so that studentsand graduates can move easily throughout it [...]”
Policy measures adopted: the revised Standards andGuidelines for Quality Assurance in the EuropeanHigher Education Area (ESG 2015)
Automatic Recognition
Ambitious or obvious goal? Challenges for EHEA tools
Need to work better together From non-binding transparency tools to real and
direct consequences Non-implementation issues
Role of QA Common standards Basis for systematic trust EQAR: importance of monitoring
Vision for QA, Trust and(Automatic) Recognition
QA NQF A
QF- EHEA
NQF B
ESG & EQAR self-certification
Qualification in country A
Level in country Bmap & recognise
EQAR website: systeminformation
Database of EQA Reports
Quality assurance results (decisions + reports): ESG 2.6: reports published by the agency … but on which agency's website to look for them?
EQAR Self-Evaluation Report 2016 Explore possibility of a database of higher education
institutions and programmes Goals:
Identify whether a higher education institution (or itsprogrammes) went through external qualityassurance by an EQAR-registered agency
Easy access to the corresponding report
Database: functionality
Using the higher education institution (HEI) asthe starting point Search for a specific HEI Not a catalogue of programmes/study opportunities
All types of external QA covered by the ESG Evaluation, accreditation, audit, review, etc. Institutional or at programme level Obligatory and voluntary procedures
Database: how it might look
Database: your voice
ENIC-NARIC centres are main target group Survey of potential users (until 22 July 2016)
https://eqar.eu/surveys/database-users.html
(and see your email)