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AQU Catalunya. Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education of Catalonia. 2004 Projects

AQU Catalunya. Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education of Catalonia. 2004 Projects Esteve Arboix Dubrovnik, 12th October 2003. www.aqucatalunya.org. Contents. AQU Catalunya How do we evaluate programs: The TEEP experience 2004 Projects -Innovative programs: Design; DOUBLES.

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AQU Catalunya. Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education of Catalonia. 2004 Projects

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  1. AQU Catalunya. Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education of Catalonia. 2004 Projects Esteve Arboix Dubrovnik, 12th October 2003 www.aqucatalunya.org

  2. Contents • AQU Catalunya • How do we evaluate programs: The TEEP experience • 2004 Projects • -Innovative programs: Design; DOUBLES

  3. AQU Catalunya • Catalonia 6 Million population; • 11 universities; • 400 study programs • 190.000 students • 12.000 lecturers • AQU Catalunya • 1996-2003: Consortium Combined organism: university administration • Instrument for quality promotion in HE • 2003: LUC : Independent body new competences • ENQA founder; Budget: 1,6 M EUROS; Staff: 14

  4. AQU Catalunya: Objectives and functions on • Objectives: • To promote institutional quality assessments in HE • To build up consistent methodologies for quality assessment • To supply objective information which may serve as a basis for decision making • To impel mechanisms of transparency and accountability • To inform the society • Functions: • Evaluation • Accreditation: Person accreditation. • Certification: teaching evaluation model

  5. AQU Catalunya: • Evaluation: 234 study programs (60% of the total); 21 transversal evaluation; 28 departments; 18 Follow up; 11doctarates • Development of methodology: Follow up; transition from secondary education to HE; evaluation of library services; transition to HE to labour market • Training of experts: both internal and external committees • Publications: Reports; General Frameworks • Cooperation: Spanish Quality Plan, ENQA

  6. How do we evaluate: • Assessing HE: Programes, procesuss; departments schools; university services • Evaluation of programmes: Employers, teaching staff, students, stakeholders • Methodology: Self assessment+External report+Final reports • Role of external evaluation: Improvement and accountability • Identification of strong and weak points • Benchmarking of the evaluated programmes • Contribution to self regulation • Independent vision • Global wiew

  7. How do we evaluate: The TEEP experience • TEEP (Trans European Evaluation Project 2002) • Objectives: • 1Develop new method for transnational evaluation • 2Develop and agreed set of standards, procedures and guidelines on QA • 3. Contribute to more visibility, transparency and comparability • 4. No ranking • 3 subject fields: History, Physics and Veterinary (Bachelor level) on four different universities • ENQA Project: 3 agencies: EVA (DK); QAA (GB); AQU (CAT, Spain) • FOCUS: Educational context; competences and learnig outcomes; QA Mech. • METHOD: Self Assesment+External visit • Positive experience

  8. 2004 projects: DESIGN • Objectives: • Promotion the right design of programme’s structure according to the Bologna declaration and the new legal framework • Avoid “mechanical” adaptations • Experience showed: • Need a better definition of program’s objectives according to employability orientation, structure coherence, QA mechanisms • Programs based on inputs “ex-ante” homologation. • Compulsory by law • 5 pilot groups Medicine; Chemical Engineering; Catalan Philology; Psichology

  9. 2004 projects: Innovative DESIGN • Phases: • 1. Development of methodology. Definition of quality Criteria (general Frameworks) • 2. Design of the programme structure: adaptation of the general framework to each speciality • 3.Evaluation of the new design • 4. AQU’s report on the quality of that design • Results: • Establishment of a good practice referent for the design of the programmes structure • Promotion of Bottom-up method to establish the ECTS • Reports on Quality

  10. 2004 projects: DOUBLES • Objectives: • 1. Double/shared degree promoter at postgraduate level • 2.Emphasis on QA mechanisms: 2 agencies involved shared evaluation • 3. Evaluation: TEEP experience shared evaluation criteria • 4. Each study must define it’s competences at postgraduate level • 5. Promotion of student and teachers mobility • 6. Identification of obstacles for establishment of double degree • Need: • 1. Agreement between 2 universities and 2 agencies (fulfilment of minimum requirements of the study program) • 2. Implication of Catalan Ministry and Grants Agency

  11. 2004 projects: Innovative DOUBLES • Expected Results: (early stage) • Creation of new programmes structure at post graduate level suitable to obtain double/shared degree based on Bologna recommendation • Methodological developpement based on postgraduate • Addition of value to the mobility of students and teachers • Idenfication of difficulties

  12. Thank you very much

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