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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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EQAR website: systeminformation
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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
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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
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Database: how it might look
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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)