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EQArep workshop on stakeholders’ transparency needs

Tallinn, 6-7 May 2013 Maria Kelo, Director, ENQA

ENQA at a glance

Umbrella NGO for European QA agencies in HE, founded in 2000. Membership:

• 44 Full members, of which one “under review”
• 2 Candidate members
• 43 Affiliates

(covers more than 40 countries) Membership criteria: by and large the European Standards and Guidelines

Mission statement

• to contribute significantly to the maintenance and

enhancement of the quality of European higher education at a high level

• to act as a major driving force for the development of

quality assurance across all the Bologna signatory countries.

• ENQA promotes European co-operation in the field of QA in

higher education in order to develop and share good practice in QA and to foster the European dimension of QA.

Activities

• Dissemination of information on experience, good practice and new

developments in the field of quality assessment and QA in HE to stakeholders

• Organisation of events
• Publication of reports
• Coordination of external reviews of QA agencies
• ENQA has launched 5 working groups
• Co-operation within E4 (EUA, ESU, EURASHE)
• Involvement in the Bologna Follow-up Group and EQAR
• Participation in transnational quality assurance projects

EQArep project – why?

• Need for detailed and reliable information on individual study programmes,

faculties and higher education institutions, and especially on quality at programme and at institutional level.

• Quality assurance is an important tool in providing transparent and reliable

information on the quality of HE BUT….

• reports vary a lot in terms of structure and content and also as regards

publication channels and strategies

• we do not know how much they are used, by whom, and how useful are they

for the users

•  their contribution to the comparative dimension of transparency of higher

education at the European level is still relatively limited

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EQArep project – who?

• Consortium of ENQA and four of its member agencies:

– ASHE, Croatia – EKKA, Estonia – OAQ, Switzerland – QQI, Ireland

• Stakeholder Advisory Board:

– Business Europe – ESU – EUA – EURASHE

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EQArep project – what?

• map the current publication practices and analyse the typology of reports,

their purposes, use, etc.

• explore the different needs of stakeholders for transparent and comparable

information, and the role that EQA review reports can/are expected to/do play

• Provide good practice and recommendations/standards for different types of

quality assurance reports in the EHEA

• evaluate whether a European template for quality assurance (summary)

reports is feasible  Better understanding of the needs of (potential users)  Increased comparability  increased mobility, facilitated collaboration, etc.  Better information provided to the stakeholders

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Activities and stages

• Survey on stakeholders’ requirements for transparency
• Workshop for stakeholders of quality assurance
• Survey of QA agencies on publication of quality assurance reports: purpose,

structure and content

• Analysis of a sample of QA reports
• Workshop for quality assurance agencies on publication of review reports
• Elaboration of recommendations (and a template?) for external evaluation

reports

• Final dissemination conference
• Final report and publication

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The perspective of stakeholders

• Students, “other” HEIs’, QA agencies, world of work, policy makers,

funders…

• Stakeholders are important players in QA, but also important users of

information provided by QA

• Survey on stakeholders’ needs for transparent information and their use of

QA reports

• This workshop to verify the findings, discuss among stakeholders, and collect

suggestions for the future of the project

• Will feed into the next stages: analysis of review reports, development of

recommendations, elaboration of a European template (?)

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This workshop

• Participants:

– Mainly respondent to the survey who indicated interest in participating  students, HEI representatives, government representatives, employer representatives – QA agency representatives from the project partnership – Advisory board members: representative organisations at the European level

• Working methods

– Plenary presentations to provide background and context to the issue at stake – Working groups  small groups to provide us with concrete suggestions and ideas

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Thank you!