ShareAQU Catalunya will evaluate 29 degree monitoring reports in 2024
This involves 12 reports on higher arts degree programmes, and 17 university studies.
AQU Catalonia will evaluate a total of 29 degree programmes monitoring reports in 2024. Of these, 12 are higher arts degree programmes: 4 bachelor's degrees and 8 master's degrees. Specifically, these follow-up reports presented by the centres are requirements of degree programme accreditation. The final reports have already been issued for these degrees, and the files are now closed.
The Agency will also evaluate 17 degrees corresponding to university studies: Four for bachelor's degree, 5 for master's degrees and 9 for PhDs. It should also be noted that of these 17 recognised degrees, 4 are being monitored in terms of the requirements and enhancement areas established in the validation process. In the case of the other 13, these will be monitored with regard to accreditation requirements. Seven final reports have already been issued for these university degrees, and the remaining degrees are in assessment process.
The degree monitoring process, which involves a single annual call for applications from December to February, has two main objectives. The first is the analysis by higher education centres of the development of their official programmes in a systematic way, based on objective data, and when appropriate the preparation of proposals for improvement that serve to correct the discrepancies observed between the design of the degree programmes and the day-to-day implementation of the same. Secondly, monitoring is intended to be the basis for accreditation, since accreditation is conceived as the culmination of the monitoring process. Thus, to the extent that the two processes are understood as a single one, they can jointly be conceived as a single process of continuous improvement that culminates in an external validation of the results achieved.