"Drivers for Transnational Education are the opportunities: proximity, flexibility, stability, economic value, affordability and dissatisfaction with local HE institutions." Theresa Okafor (QAARDAN)
The first day starts with the training session. The workshop's first day will focus on subtheme 1: the use of the Guidelines of Good Practice (GGP): internal QA and the external review of agencies.
Morning
08:00 - 13:00
Registration
09:00 - 12:00
Training sessions
The Guidelines of Good Practice
GGP as means of establishing agencies
producing and presenting evidence of compliance
Leaders:
Dorte Kristoffersen (AUQA, Australia)
Marjorie Peace-Lenn (CQAIE, USA)
Internal quality assurance of agencies Leaders:
Signe Ploug Hansen(EVA, Denmark)
Therese Steffen (OAQ, Switzerland & NVAO, the Netherlands & Flanders)
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
Afternoon
Chair: Karl Dittrich (NVAO)
13:00 - 13:50
Opening and introduction to the workshop themes
Speakers:
Karl Dittrich (Chair of the NVAO and host of the workshop)
Mark Rutte (State Secretary for Higher Education of the Netherlands)
Richard Lewis (INQAAHE)
13:50 – 14:20
Sets of standards for QA agencies: a comparison
Speaker:
Guy Aelterman (NVAO, the Netherlands & Flanders)
14:20 – 14:40
Coffee break
14:40 – 15:10
The GGP and the external evaluation of CNAP (Chile)
Speakers:
Dorte Kristoffersen (AUQA, Australia, Chair of the review panel)
Maria Jose Lemaitre (CNAP, Chile)
15:10 – 15:40
The European standards and guidelines and the external evaluation of agencies in Germany
Speaker:
Achim Hopbach (Akkreditierungsrat, Germany)
15:40 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00
Working groups
Theme:
Standards for agencies: means of internal QA and external evaluation
Group 1:
Chair –Jean Morse (MSA-CHE, USA)
Group 2:
Chair – Marjorie Peace-Lenn (CQAIE, USA)
Group 3:
Chair – Ian MacCionna (HETAC, Ireland)
Group 4:
Chair – Tibor Szanto (HAC, Hungary)
17:00 – 18:00
Plenary session
Reports from the working groups and discussion
Chair: Jean Morse (MSA-CHE, USA)
Evening
Host: Sander Dekker (Alderman for education of The Hague)
19:30
Reception in the City Hall
This years' venue
This year's venue is a city palace, one of the remarkable sights of The Hague . read more >>
