The accreditation of bachelor and master's programmes: results 2014-2016
The Guide to the accreditation of recognised bachelor and Master's degrees was endorsed in November 2013. As of that moment, the eighty (80) programmes that were to undergo accreditation in 2014 began the work of reflecting on the delivery of their programmes from ex-ante accreditation (validation) onwards, which was analysed and drawn up in a self-assessment report on each programme.
The first site visit to an institution was carried out in May 2014. From then until the end of 2016 AQU Catalunya carried out the external review of 616 programmes (312 undergraduate and 304 Masters). 567 (92%) formally applied for accreditation and out of these AQU has processed and completed 511 (90%). The University of Barcelona (UB) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona accounted for 40% of the total number of applications received. Josep Manel Torres - Head of Quality Assessment Department
At the request of the Serra Hunter Programme, support was provided by AQU Catalunya's Research Assessment Commission (CAR) in the 2016 call for applications with the pre-selection assessment of the CVs of candidates who applied for places. Applications received under the Serra Hunter Programme were assigned to the same review procedure as applications for pre- and non-career grade (tenure track/lector) teaching staff and the assessment of research by senior lecturer staff in the second call for applications in 2016. Support had previously been provided in 2013 and 2015 (there was no call for applications under the Serra Hunter Programme in 2014).
Esteve Arboix - Head of Assessment of Teaching Staff and Research Department
The first year of work on the TeSLA project. The experience of AQU Catalunya
El The TeSLA project is currently in its second year of development and all of the objectives and deadlines set at the outset of the project for 2016 were fulfilled and complied with. In its role as leader of WP4 (Work Package 4), AQU Catalunya has been working together with ENQA and EQANIE to establish and define the different aspects and parameters for quality assurance within the framework of the project. The work is set out in the three following reports submitted to the European Commission under the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020. Roger Roca - Project manager of Internationalisation and Knowledge Generation Department