Quality Assurance Fit for the Future (QA-FIT)

The QA-FIT project aimed to gather comprehensive evidence and reflect if and how the current EHEA framework of the ESG is perceived to limit the responsiveness of quality assurance to trends and innovations in higher education, and if and how there should be more room for development of alternative approaches to quality assurance.

More specifically, the project:

• conducted a comprehensive mapping exercise of the state of play of internal and external quality assurance in the EHEA;
• took a critical look at the ESG and see how they have been adapted to different contexts;
• explored how quality assurance activities are addressing recent and emerging developments in higher education including activities that go beyond the focus of the ESG and that use innovative approaches, and
• gathered perspectives on the future of quality assurance in the EHEA.

Activities:

The main activities of the project included:

• Surveys to the main quality assurance stakeholders, namely higher education institutions, students, quality assurance agencies, and ministries;
• A series of papers to present findings from the surveys;
• A series of webinars, organised in conjunction with the publication of the papers;
• Five focus groups to discuss in detail some of the matters arising from the surveys;
• A final publication and policy recommendations;
• A final conference organised in Brussels.