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Making Quality VISIBLE A National Framework for Quality Assurance of Further and Higher Education in Malta of Further and Higher Education in Malta Sandro Spiteri Director for Quality Assurance, Research and Policy Development 19 th December

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Making Quality

VISIBLE

A National Framework for Quality Assurance

  • f Further and Higher Education in Malta

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  • f Further and Higher Education in Malta

Sandro Spiteri Director for Quality Assurance, Research and Policy Development

19th December 2013 Intercontinental Hotel, Malta

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Education Act (since 2012)

Art 65: “The Commission shall: (c) act as the competent authority for licensing,

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(c) act as the competent authority for licensing, accreditation, quality assurance and recognition of providers and programmes as provided by this Act or any regulation made under this Act”

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The Quality Cycle

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Licensing Quality Assurance

Enhanced quality, numbers, personal and national well-being

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Quality Assurance

1. safeguards the quality of further and higher education within the economic, social and cultural context, on a national, European and international level; 2. ensures the use of appropriate measures as a means

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2. ensures the use of appropriate measures as a means

  • f improving the quality of teaching, learning,

training and research; and 3. communicates the outcome of such findings within an internal and external framework of accountability

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Internal Quality Assurance

  • Art. 36:

Providers shall have the primary responsibility for the quality of their provision and its quality assurance.

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Providers seeking any type of accreditation shall have in place an internal quality assurance system which shall be designed specifically to ensure the fitness and properness for purpose of the providers and their programmes, to achieve the aims and objectives set for them.

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IQAs and EQAs

INTERNAL

EXTERNAL EVALUATION

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ENHANCED QUALITY, OUTPUT, NUMBERS INTERNAL EVALUATION

MARKET FORCES

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A National Quality Culture

EQAR Review EQA

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External review for IQA

IQA

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Aims of a QA F&H Framework

We therefore need to develop a national QA framework for F&H education that:

  • Fosters enhanced quality cultures in providers
  • Increases the agency, satisfaction and numbers of users

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  • Increases the agency, satisfaction and numbers of users
  • Enhances the international profile and credibility of F&H

providers in Malta

  • Contributes towards Malta becoming a regional provider of

excellence in F&H education

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ESG at the Core of Framework

  • In 2003 EU higher education Ministers requested stakeholders to

develop “an adequate peer review system for quality assurance and/or accreditation agencies or bodies”

  • First version in 2005, revised in 2009, due to be revised in 2014.
  • ESG is increasing in importance and scope. Now used as yardstick

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  • ESG is increasing in importance and scope. Now used as yardstick

– for membership in ENQA and EQAR – To partly gauge fulfillment of Bologna Process – For cross-border audits – as a short cut to automatic recognition of qualifications (by Flanders)

  • Since 2012 NCFHE has been using ESG for the IQA requirement

for licensing, for BOTH Further and Higher Institutions

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The ESG Components

1. Policy and Procedures for Quality Assurance 2. Approval, Monitoring and Periodic Review of Programmes and Awards

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Awards 3. Assessment of Students 4. Quality Assurance of Teaching Staff 5. Learning Resources and Student Support 6. Information Systems 7. Public Information

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Many Roads to Rome...

EQAVET CAF TQM Col RIM

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Col RIM Bureau Veritas ISO 9001

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An Organic Approach to Framework Development

ESG

IQA1

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ESG IQA2

IQA3 IQA4

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Some Framework Issues

  • What should we focus on in the first round of EQA?
  • What should be the nature of IQA and EQA of local

franchise holders/ representatives?

  • Who shall audit? What quality of stakeholder

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  • Who shall audit? What quality of stakeholder

participation, including students?

  • Shall be allow cross-border audits? At programme level
  • r also institution level?
  • What types of e-based programmes can be accredited,

and how shall they be audited?

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How Shall We Achieve This?

  • Setting up of Net-QAPE
  • Strengthening IQA
  • Developing together the EQA objectives,

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  • Developing together the EQA objectives,

poroceduires and tools

  • Piloting the IQA and EQA in three state

institutions

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Project Partners

  • NCFHE – lead partner
  • University of Malta
  • MCAST

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  • MCAST
  • Institute of Tourism Studies
  • Directorate for Lifelong Learning
  • ACQUIN – consulting partner
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Net-QAPE: a Key Partner

  • Network of Quality Assurance Professionals in Further and Higher Education (Net-

QAPE) led by the NCFHE and open to representatives of all licensed F&HE providers in Malta.

  • initial scoping of present IQA elements within entities (appointments for January

2014 can be made today)

  • Net-QAPE shall be the main forum to discuss all IQA and EQA issues

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  • Net-QAPE shall be the main forum to discuss all IQA and EQA issues
  • Net-QAPE shall be a key partner of NCFHE in reviewing all procedures and consider

new directions

  • Net-QAPE members offered free training for the development of a quality culture in

their institutions and the development of ESG-compliant IQA.

  • To include a number of seminars (and a study visit) by Net-QAPE members to

examples of good practice in IQA and EQA in F&HE.

  • Training will constitute an accredited Continuous Professional Development Award
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Other Project Deliverables

  • Training for persons in Malta wishing to become accredited auditors of home-grown

distance learning programmes and courses.

  • Training of selected staff in the three Maltese partner institutions that will pilot IQA

and EQA

  • Develop procedures and tools for EQA, including for accreditation and QA of distance

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  • Develop procedures and tools for EQA, including for accreditation and QA of distance

learning programmes

  • Developing of software that shall assist F&HE Institutions to keep constant track of

their licensing and accreditation status

  • Pilot Internal and external audits at UoM, MCAST and ITS
  • Developing a roadmap for the future of EQA and Net-QAPE
  • Work towards membership of NCFHE in ENQA and EQAR
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Suggested Timeline

  • Dec 2013 – Aug 2014:

Training and development

  • Sept 2014 – June 2015:

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  • Sept 2014 – June 2015:

Piloting, reviewing and roadmap

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The Role of Compliance

  • EQA also includes compliance checks and, where

necessary, spot-checks and investigations, but these are seperate from the EQA process.

  • General regulations e.g. On advertising and use of

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  • General regulations e.g. On advertising and use of

NCFHE logo

  • Investigations driven by complaints
  • Collaboration with UK-based parent entities, OfQual and

QAA

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THANK YOU

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THANK YOU