PowerPoint-presentatie

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Bologna Seminar Improving the recognition system
International recognition and quality assurance
Jindra Divis Director, Netherlands NARIC/ENIC,
Nuffic Riga, 3 December 2004
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General background Global trends developments
in HE

• Diversification of programs (degree, non-degree)
• Individualisation of qualifications (and learning
  paths)
• Globalisation of education cross borders
  provision
• Virtualisation of education
• Lifelong Learning from education to any form of
  learning

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Reactions

• Many responses on national level from strong
  support to permanent struggle
• Culmination on the international level in the
  Bologna process
• National and international responses coordinated
• Also in the fields of recognition and quality
  assurance

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Berlin Communiqué

• Three priorities
• Quality assurance
• Recognition
• Two-cycle system
• How do the first two interlink

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Where do quality assurance and recognition meet?

• Quality assurance/accreditation
• From the perspective of recognition one concept
• In the hands of national competent authorities
  
• National level - objectives
• Accountability
• Public protection
• Quality improvement

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Where do quality assurance and recognition meet?

• International level objective
• recognition of diplomas and qualifications
• Recognition
• Quality ( and status) of institutions and
  programs the very first issue
• Plus other issues (criteria)

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Too high expectations?

• Co-operation in quality assurance and
  accreditation will NOT result in automatic
  recognition of diplomas and degrees
• Other questions to tackle in recognition (see
  criteria Lisbon Recognition Convention)
• Slow progress in quality assurance/accreditation
  co-operation
• Looking for common objectives and criteria
• Why not acceptance and looking for substantial
  differences?
• Two-cycle system promotes further diversification
  

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Co-operation between quality assurance/accreditati
on and recognition

• On the agenda
• Specific information about quality to foreign
  target groups
• Non-regular field
• Non-degree programs
• Joint-degrees
• Virtual education
• Across borders provision
• Lifelong learning

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Co-operation between quality assurance/accreditati
on and recognition

• Moving from process to output learning outcomes
  and competences
• In need of explaining frameworks
• Qualifications frameworks
• National and international

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What do we need?

• A system of Qualifications Frameworks and a
  European Framework
• Containing different levels of qualifications
• Expressed in terms of learning outcomes/competence
  s regardless of any specific or formal learning
  paths
• Demonstrating how these competences could be
  shown, without referring to the educational
  process or learning paths
• Supported by quality assurance provisions
• Thus facilitating international recognition.

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Who is involved in quality assurance and
recognition?

• Who is not?
• NARIC/ENIC networks
• ENQA
• EUA, ESIB, EURASHE
• Council of Europe
• UNESCO/CEPES

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Who is involved in quality assurance and
recognition?

• UNESCO
• Global Forum
• OECD
• With UNESCO Guidelines for quality provision in
  cross-border HE

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Who is involved in quality assurance and
recognition?

• Joint Quality Initiative
• INQAAHE
• Others

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Conclusion

• Quality assurance /accreditation two sides of the
  same coin
• Recognized as such
• Facilitating European mobility, employability and
  labour market

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Questions?