Symposium From Design to Implementation of Internal Quality Assurance Systems29.06.2009
Within the frame of the AUDIT programme, which has as its goals the orientation of the design of Internal Quality Assurance Systems (IQAS) for university education and their implementation, as stages previous to their possible certification, AQU Catalunya is organising the symposium From Design to Implementation of Internal Quality Assurance Systems, which will take place on 1 July at Ramon Llull University.
New edition of the quality-assessment training course for students 25.06.2009
Ramon Llull University, with the collaboration of AQU Catalunya, will be holding the course entitled The Role of Students in the New University Quality Processes, with the aim to train students in the processes addressed to improving quality within the frame of the university.
Approval of the modifications of the Activities Plan 2009 22.06.2009
The Board of Directors, which is the supreme governing body of AQU Catalunya, has given its approval to the changes in the Activities Plan 2009 and to the preliminary project of the plan envisaged for 2010 as well as the budgets for next year.
Results of the first survey on the satisfaction with the 2008 academic staff assessment12.06.2009
The initiative, which forms part of the programme to enhance review processes and user satisfaction with the services of AQU, involved the participation of applicants for reports for tenure-track lecturers, research accreditation (assistant professors) and advanced research (full professor), within the first 2008 call for applications.
Impetus for the participation of students in quality assurance projects09.06.2009
A meeting between the vice-rectors for student affairs at universities in Catalonia and AQU Catalunya was held to analyse and discuss the situation of student participation in university life and in quality assurance projects in Catalan universities, based on the documents produced by the Conference of Ministers responsible for higher education in Europe, the European Students Union (ESU).
Results of the first call of AUDIT programme08.06.2009
AQU Catalunya has finished the assessment of the design of internal quality assurance systems of the institutions that have participated in the first call of the AUDIT programme.
AQU Catalunya makes public the accreditation reports of teaching assessment handbooks of catalan universities03.06.2009
AQU Catalunya has accredited the teaching assessment process contained in the public universities' handbooks. Amongst other uses, the teaching assessment handbook is the instrument used by the universities to assess the personal merits in teaching of both public service and contracted teaching and research staff at public universities in Catalonia for the allocation of salary bonuses, in accordance with current legislation.
AQU Catalunya publishes the Annual Activities Report 2008 02.06.2009
This Report deals, amongst others, with the accession of AQU Catalunya to the European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR), after an international external assessment which acknowledged its compliance with the European standards, and the preparation of the AQU Catalunya Strategic Plan 2009-2012.
Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Higher Education08.05.2009
On 28 and 29 April 2009, the Ministers responsible for higher education in the 46 countries of the Bologna Process met in Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve to establish the priorities for the European Higher Education Area until 2020. They highlighted in particular the importance of lifelong learning, widening access to higher education, and mobility. By 2020, at least 20% of those graduating in the European Higher Education Area should have had a study or training period abroad.