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April 2018

25.01.2018

AQU Catalunya publishes its Action Plan for 2018

The Action Plan for 2018 [catalan] which has been endorsed by the Agency's Governing Board, covers the main planned activities to be carried out by AQU Catalunya throughout the year. According to strategic priorities, new developments to be introduced in 2018 are as follows:

  • Institutional quality: the accreditation of doctoral programmes at universities in Catalonia will start; preparatory work will be done on automatic indicator reporting for programme accreditation and monitoring; and the Guide to institutional review and the management procedure will be approved.
  • The quality of teaching staff and teaching: the introduction of e-Notum, an e-notification system for the processing of teaching staff assessment dossiers; and periods of research activity will from now on be assessed in a disaggregated way (according to each contribution).
  • Knowledge generation and transfer: the following are to be carried out: field work for the second survey of employers' perceptions of graduate employability; for the first time, technical supervision of the VIA Universitària survey; and planning for the survey of the employment outcomes of graduates from universities in Catalonia to be carried out in 2020. In the case of survey studies, priority will be given to preparing the assessment profiles of teaching staff for the categories of tenure-eligible lecturer, senior lecturer/associate professor and full professor; the presentation of a proposal for a Catalan Qualifications Framework and a Framework for gender mainstreaming in the Agency's QA procedures.
  • Internationalisation: a proposal for an overall strategy for the internationalisation of AQU Catalunya is to be defined.
  • Strategic management: a new website for AQU Catalunya will be defined and the Agency's Strategic Plan for 2019-2022 drawn up.
  • Internal organisation: the Agency's security procedures and policies regarding data protection will be adapted in accordance with new legislation on data protection; the Agency's internal procedures will be adapted to different e-government tools being introduced; and a new management procedure for the digital archive is to be developed.

 

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