1. European Quality Assurance
Register for Higher Education
ESG 2015 – what's new for
trust and recognition?
Regional Seminar on Quality Assured Automatic Recognition
Zagreb, 21 January 2016
Colin Tück
2. ESG 2005 → 2015
Starting points for revision:
“improve their clarity, applicability and usefulness,
including their scope”
Keep strength, overcome weaknesses
Adapt to new developments
The 2015 version of the ESG
More firmly embedded in “EHEA infrastructure” (e.g. links
to QF, LRC, ECTS, etc.)
More common ground in QA across Europe
➔ EHEA grew closer together (at least in QA)
3. QA & ESG 2015: what does
it mean for recognition?
More awareness for link QA ↔ recognition due to
goal of automatic recognition
ESG purposes: “support mutual trust, thus
facilitating recognition and mobility within and
across national borders”
Focus on institutional responsibility
S&G for internal quality assurance (Part 1)
Quality of the student learning experience
Design and review of programmes and qualifications
4. ESG 2005 – Part 1 ESG 2015 – Part 1
1.1 Policy and procedures for quality
assurance
1.1 Policy for quality assurance
1.2 Approval, monitoring and periodic
review of programmes and awards
1.2 Design and approval of programmes
1.3 Assessment of students 1.3 Student-centred learning, teaching
and assessment
1.4 Quality assurance of teaching staff 1.4 Student admission, progression,
recognition and certification
1.5 Learning resources and student
support
1.5 Teaching staff
1.6 Information systems 1.6 Learning resources and student
support
1.7 Public information 1.7 Information management
1.8 Public information
1.9 On-going monitoring and periodic
review of programmes
(table by Achim Hopbach)
5. ESG 2005 – Part 2 ESG 2015 – Part 2
2.1 Use of internal quality assurance
procedures
2.1 Consideration of internal quality
assurance
2.2 Development of external quality
assurance processes
2.2 Designing methodologies fit for
purpose
2.3 Criteria for decisions 2.3 Implementing processes
2.4 Processes fit for purpose 2.4 Peer-review experts
2.5 Reporting 2.5 Criteria for outcomes
2.6 Follow-up procedures 2.6 Reporting
2.7 Periodic reviews 2.7 Complaints and appeals
2.8 System-wide analyses
(table by Achim Hopbach)
6. QA & ESG 2015: link to
qualifications & recognition
ESG 1.2 (standard):
qualification [...] should [...] refer to the correct level of the national
qualifications framework for higher education and, consequently, to the
Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area.
ESG 1.4 (guideline):
institutional practice for recognition being in line with the principles of the
Lisbon Recognition Convention
ESG 1.9 (standard):
periodically review their programmes to ensure that they achieve the
objectives set for them and respond to the needs of students and society
ESG 2.1 (standard):
address the effectiveness of the internal quality assurance processes
described in Part 1 of the ESG.
7. QA & ESG 2015: the
European level
EQAR: Register of compliant QA agencies
External review of agencies every 5 years
Increasing focus on monitoring during cycle
Substantive Change Reports
Annual Updates
Complaints Policy
Cross-border external QA, European Approach
for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes
Increasing reliance on ESG as common ground
Possible impact on recognition based on ESG?
8. Join us to:
Learn more about the ESG directly from their authors
Benefit from exchanges with peers on good practices
Overcome challenges in translating the ESG into practice
In the spring of 2016, 5 events:
Webinars on 17 February 2016 & 13 April 2016
Workshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 14-15 March 2016
Workshop in Vienna, Austria on 9-10 May 2016
Workshop in Lisbon, Portugal on 6-7 June 2016
Registrations is open now, participation is free of charge
(participants arrange their own travel/accommodation)
More soon at www.equip-project.eu