Butlletí

A bimonthly publication of AQU Catalunya

45

November 2009

EDITORIAL

AQU Catalunya, at the service of the Catalan higher education system

The ENQA Board (the executive body of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) has expressed its satisfaction in relation to the progress made by the Catalan agency with regard to its recommendations. These concerned a series of enhancment proposals made by the ENQA international external review panel during the process which confirmed AQU Catalunya as a full member of the association (2007).

AQU NEWS

• Students prefer to be directed by their teachers in the learning process30.10.2009
• Results of the ENQA General Assembly in Barcelona 21.10.2009
• Results of the first call for applications in 2009 for the accreditation of research and advanced research19.10.2009
• ENQA compliments AQU Catalunya on the ''progress'' made in following up its recommendations16.10.2009
• AQU Catalunya compares its structure and activity with other QA agencies to identify good practices13.10.2009
• Second call for applications in 2009 for the accreditation of research and advanced research by senior lecturers professors and professors13.10.2009
• High level of participation in the 2010 workshop on research assessment in the Humanities and Social Sciences09.10.2009
• AQU Catalunya participates in the Second National Congress on University Studies07.10.2009
• Registration now open for the workshop on research assessment in the Humanities and Social Sciences06.10.2009
• Javier Bará gives up the posts of AQU Director and Chairman of the Agency’s Quality Assessment Commission29.09.2009
• The quality assurance agencies of the European higher education system meet in Catalonia28.09.2009
• Deadline for submitting evaluation reports on merits in teaching and administration22.09.2009
• AQU Catalunya hosts the Sixth ENQA General Assembly in Barcelona18.09.2009
• Issuance of the AUDIT programme certificates07.09.2009
• Dr. Luís Castanyer Muñoz awarded the Jaume Vicens Vives award by the Catalan Government 02.09.2009
• Maria Lluïsa Hernanz is reappointed as chairwoman of the CLiC Committee01.09.2009

ARTICLES

• From which perspective should quality in teaching be fostered?
  In a recent study we set out to identify teaching strategies that would be effective in helping students to learn more and in a better way. The purpose was to construct an instrument for analysing teaching and learning situations in higher education and to ultimately bring about significant enhancement in them.
  Joan Rué Domingo - IDES interest group: Autonomous Learning Network (UAB)
• Future challenges of quality in Europe
  The ENQA General Assembly was hosted by AQU Catalunya on 28 and 29 September 2009. The meeting in Barcelona practically brings to a close a strategic cycle in Europe in quality assurance and quality assurance (QA) agencies, which curiously enough also began in Catalonia.
  Josep Grifoll Saurí - Head of Quality Assessment department
• Results of registration for the workshop on research assessment in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  The rapid filling of all the places on the workshop has led to several interested people not being able to register. In order for everybody to have the opportunity to make their ideas known, AQU Catalunya is setting up an on-line forum whereby those who are interested can present their ideas and work in this area, outside of the workshop itself.
  Maria Giné Soca - Head of Planning and Communication unit

OPINION

• The international dimension of AQU Catalunya
  

  Javier Bará Temes
  Chair of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Director of AQU Catalunya (2006-2009)

  After three years of holding the position of Director of AQU Catalunya, I believe the Agency's most significant characteristic to be its international dimension, a statement that, based perhaps on its daily activities as perceived by the universities and governed principally by decisions made at the ministerial and government department level and by the Inter-university Council of Catalonia, may cause surprise.

• Send us your opinion!
  

  Would you like to share your opinions with the readers of elButlletí regarding issues associated with quality in the sphere of the universities and institutions of higher education?

AQU RECOMMENDS

• Ranking of universities and higher education institutions for student information purposes?
• Un model d'anàlisi de la qualitat de l'ensenyament des de la perspectiva dels estudiants a titulacions de quatre universitats catalanes