QA and QE in Europe: where does LANQUA fit

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QA and QE in Europe where does LANQUA fit?

• Fiona Crozier
• Assistant Director, Development Enhancement
  Group, QAA UK
• f.crozier_at_qaa.ac.uk

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Introduction

• Overview of QA and QE in Europe
• Policy context what bits are important?
• Why is LANQUA important in this context? Where
  does it fit in? What is its potential impact?

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A diversity of purposes for quality assurance

• Accountability
• Control
• Improvement/enhancement
• Public information
• Public reassurance/confidence
• International acceptability
• Ranking
• Resource allocation

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A diversity of quality assurance models

• Programme/subject evaluation
• Programme/subject accreditation
• Programme/subject assessment
• Programme/subject review
• Institutional evaluation
• Institutional audit
• Institutional review
• Institutional accreditation

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A diversity of outcomes

• Public and private information reports
• Recommendations
• Confidence judgements
• Approvals
• Accreditation decisions
• Rankings

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• Quality assurance in higher education does not
  have a single purpose, a single method, or a
  single operational definition
• It can, and does, mean many different things in
  different contexts
• Who assures quality?

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Six quality assurance questions

• What are you trying to do?
• Why are you trying to do it?
• How are you going to do it?
• Why will that be the best way to do it?
• How will you know that it works?
• How will you be able to improve it?

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Policy context

• European Standards and Guidelines (ESG)
• Framework of qualifications for higher education
  in the EHEA
• TUNING/subject benchmarking
• TEEP I and II/QCS I and II

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Why is LANQUA important?

• Its distinctive (breadth/discipline-specific)
• Preceding work/projects/publications
• Current context
• - transnational recognition of
  qualifications
• - Learning outcomes v. Credit
• - joint programmes and collaborative
  ventures
• All will subject to some sort of QA/QE processes

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Conclusions

• Impact could be at
• - discipline level (locally and beyond)
• - National level (local QA or other body)
• - Internationally (ENQA)
• - And beyond (E4 group)

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So

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