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An Excercise on Quality in Higher Arts Education
Asst. Prof. Oğuz HaşlakoğluAKDENİZ UNIVERSITY - FINE ARTS FACULTY
Head of Painting Dept.
Artesnet.Europe project, Strand 3:
Quality Frameworks and Enhancement
Chosen Case Study for Review:
AKDENİZ UNIVERSITY - Antalya
FINE ARTS FACULTY / PAINTING DEPARTMENT
The aim of the review is to build Quality Management System
in the area of Higher Arts Education
according toBologna Principles
The Mission of ET
Through the Self Evaluation Reports (SER) and the outcomes of the main site visit, the ET
evaluates the faculty/institution’s capacity for
quality management and enhancement, identify good practice and make observations and recommendations on how to make any
necessary improvements.
Faculty Self-evaluation Commission
Asst. Prof. Öznur Aydın(Chairman) The Faculty of Fine Arts, Deputy Dean
Asst. Prof. .Oğuz Haşlakoğlu(Coordinator)
Head of the Painting Department
Assoc.Prof. Eser Gültekin The Department of Architecture,
Asst. Prof Gökmen Özmenteş The Department of Musical Sciences,
Ins. Pınar Engincan Bol The Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design,
Ins.Defne Alkandemir The Department of Graphic Arts,
To support accreditation to the other departments in the faculty according to the Painting Department model, as a part of the studies for Institutional Quality Assurance and
Enhancement Management System. The Commission comprised of former Deputy Deans who helped to analyze the academic and administrative processes. Moreover the
Deputy Dean and the Chairman of the Commission contributed to the process by accelerating the flow of
information and documents between the Dean’s Office and the Rectorate.
The Mission of Faculty SE Comission
Preliminary visit 5th - 8th October 2008
Principle objectives are:- To gain a clearer understanding of the specific national, regional and local contexts impacting on the institution
(autonomy)- To gain a clearer understanding of the existing management
operations of the institution- To discuss the self evaluation process and the institution’s Self-
Evaluation Report (SER)- To gain greater understanding of the institution’s Quality
Management & Enhancement (QME) processes- To identify and request any missing information from the SER
- To draft a programme for the main visit, agreeing dates, discipline(s) to be reviewed, which groups to meet etc.
Main visit 24th - 27th November 2008
- The ET’s main objective is to arrive at a well substantiated view of the strategic management of quality assurance and
enhancement in the institution at both institutional and subject discipline level.
Where the preliminary visit focus was on understanding what is specific about that institution, the main visit is about finding out
if, how and with what results the institution’s strategic and internal quality policies and procedures are implemented
throughout all levels of the institution.
Student representatives and Student Union officers are non-voting
members on the University’s Boards and Committees; the ET Panel believe the regulations should change and students should be given voting rights on these Boards and Senate.
What’s the pain?
- People tend to be timid and resist for change (why bother for more work? Why someone else is telling me what to do?)
They need to be persuaded that once the quality management system is set to work, they will be indeed working less - in an unnecassary manner - but getting more for what they put in)
And that nobody is telling anything to anyone in terms of what to teach and how to teach. The quality management system only asks for evidence for independent review and strategy for developmentand planning.
- Regulations of Higher Education Institution (YÖK) concerning the higher education in general and fine arts programme in particular are yet to be in
harmony with Bologna process.
What’s the gain?For Akdeniz University Fine Arts Faculty so far at least:
-The need to develop and strategically plan a faculty identity and rally departments under two headings , namely “art and design” for a more attuned contemporary arts education.
-The need to communicate more often with the city, stakeholders, third party developers as well as other art and design faculties on a national and international level.
- Signs of good communication and self-development among colleagues (they need to talk to each other and spend more time for research in forming their own programme and learning outcomes now that more and more they feel themselves as part of the whole)
-Efficient communication among disciplines (for the first time departments try to understand each other in terms of what they do and compare their own programme/course schedules with other disciplines in order to be aware
of the difference within unity)
What’s the gain?
-Learned how to make documentation to provide evidence of what and how
we do and gained experience to be reviewed by independent observers and evaluation teams.
- Learned that the process is irreversible once it gains a certain momentum
and stick to the principles of quality management system or at least try to do so in the best way possible.