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- Title
Embedding of ESG Part 1 into IQA systems- EIQAS project survey's results on ESG Part 1 and IQA: state of arts and challenges.
- Authors
Kwiatkowska-Sujka, Izabela; Socha, Mieczyslaw W.
- Abstract
According to "The European Higher Education Area in 2015. Bologna Process Implementation Report", data on progress in internal quality assurance were "necessarily limited". Therefore EIQAS "Enhancing Internal Quality Assurance Systems" Erasmus+ project responded to this information gap in higher education area. In 2014 project partners from Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia decided to map the stage of IQA development in their countries and their readiness to follow revised ESG 2015. In this paper, we discuss main conclusions from the cross-country research that was based on the survey's findings on Part. 1 ESG & IQA as well as further reviews with QA coordinators. The survey was conducted in 2015 in four projects' countries that have different history and maturity of IQA development. Whereas the current stage of IQA evolution could be considered as the function of overall progress of QA at the national level, project partners decided to cooperate towards the enhancement of IQAs through the capacity building of HEIs and QA agencies. Our major findings are as follows: firstly, most surveyed HEIs implemented IQAS during the last decade, primarily as a tool for quality assurance of learning and teaching. The ESG, both 2005 and 2015, were used as a general framework. Secondly, awareness and understanding of ESG standards, as well as level of their implementation, considerably varies across HEIs, their units and fields of studies. Thirdly, numerous barriers in implementing ESG were identified. The integration of all ESG standards in a consistent and comprehensive IQA system is one of the main challenges. Fourthly, better cooperation with internal and external stakeholders is needed as well as more intensive dialogue between QA agencies and HEIs. Besides, the level of state intervention into quality assurance processes should be much lower.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Higher Education Area; BOLOGNA process (European higher education); QUALITY assurance
- Publication
Quality Assurance Review, 2017, Vol 7, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
2066-9119
- Publication type
Article