Our colleague Alexandre Wipf has the pleasure to take part in this year’s EQAF Paper Session „Accreditation on the move“ on 18 November. We’ll be happy to see you in this online event.
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On 22nd of September 2021, our colleagues Ronny Heintze and Patrick Heinzer visited the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) office to discuss future collaboration, mutual understanding and sharing quality assurance best practices. The meeting was attended by H.E. Hussain Al Hammadi, the Minister of MoE, Prof. Mohammed Baniyas, CAA director, and CAA Commissioners.
We are looking forward to the upcoming cooperation and the related projects, which will only be the beginning of a long lasting partnership.
Based on its experience in in the evaluation of African Higher Education Centres of Excellence, AQAS recently carried out a digital site visit at Moi University, Kenya as part of the assessment of two ACE-programmes at the „Africa Centre of Excellence in Phytochemicals, Textile and Renewable Energy“. The international expert team composed of members from Botswana, Kenya, Austria and Germany engaged in open and fruitful discussions with university and student representatives. AQAS would like to thank all participants and looks forward to further evaluations of the research institutions which are funded by the World Bank.
AQAS recently conducted two digital site visits at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) as part of an international accreditation procedure. UPI applied for accreditation of its programmes in vocational teacher education and language teacher education based on the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance. The panel of experts, composed of international reviewers from the academic field as well as student and labour market representatives, experienced a congenial atmosphere and engaged in professional and in-depth discussions with the university.
This is not the first collaboration with UPI which has become a member institution of AQAS in 2020. UPI has already received international accreditation by AQAS of programmes in Management and Geography Teacher Education. AQAS is delighted to welcome UPI as a further international member. As Professor Menzel, Head of the Management Board, emphasized: “AQAS is excited to welcome a member institution from Southeast Asia with which the agency has cooperated well in the past on the enhancement of quality in education. We look forward to our further collaboration”.
AQAS hopes to celebrate the membership in an appropriate ceremony with UPI in the future.
Mit dem Ziel, nationale wie internationale Akkreditierungsberichte transparent und zentral öffentlich zugänglich zu machen, ist die vom European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) geführter Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR) in den letzten Monaten stetig angewachsen und deckt mittlerweile Gutachten von 32 europäischen Agenturen und über 2.000 Hochschulen und Institutionen ab.
Mit aktuell 7.263 der über 35.000 hochgeladenen Gutachten positioniert sich AQAS deutlich als eine der erfahrensten europäischen Agenturen.
Sämtliche Datensätze können hier abgerufen werden.
With the aim of making national and international accreditation reports publicly available in a transparent and centralized way, the Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR), which is managed by the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR), has grown steadily in recent months and now covers reports from 32 European agencies and more than 2,000 universities and institutions.
With currently 7,263 of the more than 35,000 uploaded reports, AQAS clearly positions itself as one of the most experienced agencies in Europe.
All datasets can be found here.
In yesterdays meeting at AQAS the ImpEA project aiming at the implementation of the European Approach entered a new project phase starting the development of an online toolkit that will help institutions and experts in applying the European Approach. The project is funded by the European Commission and with Partners from Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain, AQAS is the only German accreditation agency involved in it. Facilitating external quality assurance for Joint programmes has long been a priority in our work reflecting the believe that joint programmes are crucial for the internationalisation activities of German higher education institutions. Further information can be found at www.impea.online
Gerne möchten wir Sie auf folgendes Training des European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA) aufmerksam machen, welches in unserer Geschäftsstelle in Köln stattfinden wird:
ECA training: „Assessing Joint Programmes, am 10./11. Oktober 2019, Köln.
Das Training bereitet die Teilnehmer auf die Akkreditierung von Joint Programmes vor, und hat einen speziellen Fokus aus den auch in Deutschland einsetzbaren „European Approach for QA of Joint Programmes.“
Genaue Informationen zu Ablauf, Inhalt und Kosten des Trainings sowie zur Anmeldung finden Sie auf der Programmseite von ECA
AQAS congratulates its membership universities, RWTH University Aachen, the University of Bonn and the Free University Berlin (in an university association), to be under the selected universities in the framework of the “Excellence Strategy” programme, under the “Universities of Excellence” funding line. “On one hand”, states AQAS-Chairman Prof. Dr Eberhard Menzel, “the selection of these universities contributes to the fortification of the German academic landscape on an international level, on the other hand it can be seen as sign of excellent internal and external quality assurance of these universities”.
This week, AQAS joined a training session for a delegation from Huaihua University, China in Berlin. The delegation visits Germany to learn about the German higher education system and to exchange in a dialogue about innovative teaching methods. Dr. Dorothee Groeger, consultant at AQAS, contributed to the visit by providing an overview of external quality assurance procedures in Germany and worldwide.
AQAS welcomes the mutual exchange about higher education with universities worldwide and hopes that the delegation returns home safely with manifold impressions and new perspectives.
