Quality Matters in University Education

About

Quality assurance in higher education has gained increasing importance in the last decades with the states moving towards a ‘steering from the distance’ approach, placing the primary responsibility for quality management on higher education institutions themselves. At the same time, the number of stakeholders defining, and demanding quality is on the rise, and ever-increasing internationalization adds an extra dimension to institutional thinking about quality. Universities are required to set up and maintain internal quality assurance systems, engage stakeholders and maintain compliance with legal requirements and accreditation standards.

 This course intends to help universities develop and critically review their own internal quality assurance and enhancement processes – including institutional self-studies, preparations for accreditations, program-reviews, faculty and course evaluations, evaluation of teaching and learning, quality of management and student services – and coordinate their efforts to ensure that the outcomes and processes of university teaching (including face-to-face, online and blended teaching) meet local and international standards simultaneously.

Course leader

Pușa Năstase (Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education Research/Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Vienna, Austria) & Mátyás Szabó (Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education Research, Central European University, Vienna, Austria)

Target group

University leaders and managers, faculty, and students involved in university quality assurance and institutional evaluations or self-studies.

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