EMBEDDING QUALITY CULTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

تم النشر بتاريخ 04-11-2021

EMBEDDING QUALITY CULTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION Edited by: Lucien Bollaert, Sanja Brus, Bruno Curvale, Lee Harvey, Emmi Helle, Henrik Toft Jensen, Janja Komljenovič, Andreas Orphanides and Andrée Sursock The idea of a European Forum for Quality Assurance was proposed in 2003 by EUA to the E4 Group, which includes ENQA, ESIB, EUA, and EURASHE. This group has been meeting regularly since 12 September 2001 to discuss ways of developing a European dimension for quality assurance. As part of this partnership, the E4 proposed to the ministers of the Bologna signatory countries, assembled in Bergen (2005), a text entitled ‘Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area’, which proposed the idea of an annual Forum in order to discuss quality assurance issues, with as broad a range of actors as possible, in a European, rather than national, contexts. The ministers supported this initiative and the E4 decided to focus the fi rst Forum upon internal quality. This choice of topic was guided by the desire to create ownership and knowledge of quality assurance as a tool for institutional development in higher education. Quality assurance is the responsibility of each higher education institution and the foundation for the development of quality culture and creativity in higher education. This publication gathers together a representative sample of the contributions to the Forum. All the keynote presentations are included as well as a few of the many excellent papers that contributed to lively discussions in the parallel sessions. The keynotes discuss quality from a conceptual, historical and policy perspective. The papers are mostly focused on institutional case studies and show the various ways that higher education institutions, students and QA agencies ensure quality. These and all the other papers presented at the Forum can be downloaded from the EUA website. The Forum Organising Committee hopes that this collection of papers will inspire higher education institutions, academic staff, students and QA agencies to refl ect upon ways that quality can be ensured while respecting the need for diversity and innovative practices in research and education. On behalf of the Forum Organising Committee, I wish to thank the following for their support of this activity: the Technical University of Munich which hosted it with a great sense of organisation and hospitality, the 120 authors who submitted papers to the Forum, the Forum organising committee members who worked long hours to ensure all aspects of the Forum, the Socrates Programme which funded it partially, and Harald Scheuthle, from EUA, who spearheaded the organisation on behalf of the E4. The European Forum for Quality Assurance will be offered again in November 2007 and will focus upon the implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. We hope to repeat the success of this fi rst Forum and look forward to welcoming you at our next event.

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