ShareFifteen students attended the training day on university quality assurance organised by AQU Catalunya and the University of Girona
The training, which took place at the UdG, was also backed by the Catalan University Student Council (CEUCAT).
AQU Catalunya, the University of Girona (UdG) and the Catalan University Student Council (CEUCAT) co-organised a training day on university quality assurance for the student body over the weekend. The session, which was held on Saturday at the Montilivi Campus of the UdG, was attended by the UdG’s Vice-Rector for Students, Mobility and Employment, Sara Pagans, who opened the session with the director of AQU Catalunya, Jaume Valls, and the head of the UdG’s Planning and Evaluation Office, Miriea Agustí, and the coordinator of CEUCAT, Pau Maza.
The course, entitled Student Training in University Quality Assurance, aimed to provide the fifteen or so participants with tools that will enable them to participate in the internal quality assurance processes carried out by their universities and also in the external review processes carried out by AQU Catalunya. In other words, to offer them an overview of the latest developments in quality assurance from both international and local perspectives. The participants also acquired resources that will help them interpret the quality assessment data provided by the higher education system.
These contents were addressed in the different activities carried out during the course, which were led by experts from AQU Catalunya’s Quality Assurance Department, staff from the University of Girona with expertise in internal quality assurance and the CEUCAT coordinator. The theoretical part of the training day began with the lectures Contextualising Quality Assurance Within the Framework of the EHEA and the Role of the Student Body and Quality Assurance in Higher Education. This was followed by a round table on Internal Quality Assurance Systems (IQAS) and student involvement. After the lunch break, the course resumed with a practical workshop on Evaluating higher education. Finally, the day ended with a presentation on the independent work required to complete the course.
The students who complete the work after the course will receive a certificate accrediting 25 hours of dedication, which they can present to their university to apply for the recognition of an ECTS credit.