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ENQA Workshop on “Programme oriented and institutional oriented approaches to quality assurance: new developments and mixed approaches”, Berlin, Germany, 12-13 June 2008 (24. Oct. 2007)

ENQA organised the event in cooperation with the German Accreditation Council.

Background
The relation between programme-oriented and institutional-oriented approaches to quality assurance has become increasingly important, due to at least two reasons:
1) The Bologna Process and the European Standards Guidelines. The Bologna Process focuses much on programme related issues of higher education, whereas the notion of quality assurance has developed in a slightly different way.
After having worked for a few years with the ESG, not only the importance of quality assurance in the Bologna process has changed but also its notion, which affects to a certain extent the national approaches to quality assurance.
2) Significant changes of external QA are taking place in some European countries. To a large extend those changes are related to programme and institutional approaches.

The aim of this workshop was to share experience of linking programme-oriented approaches to institutional quality assurance and to present different paths to a combined approach.

The workshop was addressed to practitioners of ENQA members and experts in quality assurance.

The announcement and the programme are available through these links Announcement (doc) and Programme (doc).


Seminar material

Opening address from Reinhold Grimm, GAC, Germany
"The German Accreditation System: from programme to institutional approach" (ppt)

Presentation by Peter Williams, QAA, U.K.
"Three years after Bergen: Recent developments in external quality assurance (ESG and changes in QA)" (ppt)

Presentation by Padraig Walsh on behalf of Andrée Sursock, EUA, Belgium
"EUA position on quality assurance" (ppt)

Presentation by Clas-Uno Frykholm, HSV, Sweden
"From institutional to programme approach - and back again (and again)?" (ppt)

Presentation by Achim Hopbach, GAC, Germany
"From programme to institutional approach: Germany" (ppt)

Presentation by Wenche Froestad, NOKUT, Norway
"Higher Education in Norway - and NOKUT's role in it" (pps)

Presentation by Nick Harris, QAA, U.K.
"Combining programme and institutional aspects in QA: U.K." (ppt)

Closing plenary session, summary slides by Tibor Szanto, HAC, Hungary
"Combining institutional and programme approaches in quality assurance - Opportunities and threats" (ppt)