Training Event 1 Warsaw

26 – 30 June 2015

General description 

SEMINAR ON IQA & ESG PART 1

The five-day Seminar on IQA and the ESG will be held in Warsaw in 26-30 June 2015. Its purpose is to discuss the partner Agencies’ methodologies for the assessment of IQA, to discuss and, where possible, arrive at a common understanding of Part 1 of the ESG, and to identify key issues and features of best and innovative practice in IQA. It will be attended by 50 participants /24 individuals from project partners and 26 representatives of Polish Higher Education Institutions/

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Training Event 1 (Seminar on IQA and the ESG) is a key activity with regard to the achievement of the project objectives. The EIQAS project has two objectives. One of them is to increase the capacity of HEIs in the participating countries to develop IQA and build a quality culture by enhancing their awareness and understanding of Part 1 of the ESG and identifying, developing and disseminating good innovative practice in internal quality assurance. The training seminar will include presentations on Part 1 of the ESG and IQA systems, and discussion workshops in smaller groups on how each of Part 1 ESG can be interpreted and on good practice in IQA. The Seminar will be the only project event for the Agencies and HEIs specifically devoted to in-depth discussions on the ESG and IQA. Ideas and suggestions collected there will also provide the most significant input to the Guide to IQA promoting the ESG. While a proposed methodology for the identification of good practice examples has been developed before the seminar, modifications can still be made after the seminar to take into account suggestions made during workshop discussions. Further, although examples of good practice in IQA to be disseminated through the Guide will be selected mainly on the basis of the evidence already collected by the Agencies through their EQA processes and the academic project partners’ knowledge of institutional approaches, other examples may be discussed during seminar and then included in the Guide.

As the EIQAS project as a whole is financed from the Polish Erasmus+ budget the Seminar will be held in Poland and the seminar will be attended by a larger number of representatives of Polish HEIs. This will increase the impact on Polish higher education in terms of enhancing the understanding of the ESG and the awareness of good practice arrangements in IQA, as envisaged in the project objectives.

The second objective of EIQAS is to increase the capacity of the participating QA agencies in EQA by comparing their methodologies for the assessment of internal quality assurance and exchanging and developing good practice in IQA assessment. A reference framework for a comparative analysis of IQA assessment methodologies has been developed before the seminar and on the online discussion/ meeting. However, a discussion workshop during the seminar will be the only opportunity for a face-to-face discussion and an in-depth comparative analysis of the Agencies’ methodologies. Conclusions will provide the basis for a comparative report on IQA assessment methodologies to be produced after the seminar. Further, in broader terms, as the seminar is planned for five days, it will give the Agencies which have not worked closely together yet a good opportunity to get to know each other better with a view to initiating exchange of experts and concluding bilateral cooperation or recognition agreements in the future.

Programme

11.00 – 12.00 p.m. Preparatory meeting of Project Management Group
12.00 – 12.30 p.m.

Welcome speech

Overview of EIQAS project

Danuta Strahl

PKA vice President

Project Coordinator

Izabela Kwiatkowska

12.30-2 p.m. Presentation of Part 1 ESG – after Yerevan communique and discussion

Tove Blytt Holment

EIQAS Advisory Board

ENQA Board Member

2 – 2.30 p.m. Presentations by students on key IQA issues from their perspective

Blazhe Todorovski

ESU representative

2.30 – 3.00 p.m Lunch Hotel Mercure Restaurant
3.00-5.00 p.m. Presentation of findings from online survey on IQA and the ESG – Country reports/Cross country report

Report authors from PKA, NEAA, SQAA, A3ES:

Izabela Kwiatkowska

Todor Shopov

Klemen Subic

Madalena Fonseca

Mieczysław W. Socha

10.00 a.m. – 1 p.m.

/after 45 minutes session change of participants/

11.45 p.m. Coffee Break

3 parallel workshops in smaller groups (how each of Part 1 ESG is interpreted by HEIs, which aspects are unclear and how they are understood in HEIs’ practice, where more detailed guidelines would be particularly helpful – qualitative interview)

ESG standards analysed:

Moderators:

1.1. Policy for quality assurance and 1.10 Cyclical external quality assurance

Mieczysław W. Socha and Izabela Kwiatkowska;

1.2. Design and approval of programmes and 1.9 On-going and periodic review of programmes

Madalena Fonseca and Veronika Piccinini

1.3. Student centred learning, teaching and assessment and 1.4. Student admission, progression, recognition and certification

Vanja Perovsek and

Todor Shopov

1.00 – 2.00 p.m.

Findings from workshops, discussion

Moderators reports from morning sessions

2.00 – 3.00 p.m.

Lunch Hotel Mercure Restaurant

3.00 – 4.30 p.m.

/after 45 minutes session change of participants/

2 parallel workshops in smaller groups (how each of Part 1 ESG is interpreted by HEIs, which aspects are unclear and how they are understood in HEIs’ practice, where more detailed guidelines would be particularly helpful – qualitative interview)

ESG standards analysed:

Moderators:

1.7 Information management and 1.8 Public information

Klemen Subic and

Maciej Markowski

1.5 Teaching staff and 1.6 Learning resources and student support

Andrzej Kraśniewski Ivan Leban,

4.30-5.00 p.m.

Findings from workshops, discussion

Moderators reports from afternoon sessions

8. 00 p.m.

Dinner Smaki Warszawy Restaurant

09.30.-10.00 a.m.

Presentation of the methodology for the identification of IQA good practice agreed by the Partnership, followed by discussion on the definition of good practice and methodology for the identification of good practice

WG5 leader: NEAA Todor Shopov

 

10.00-1.30 p.m.

Presentations on IQA systems and good practices given by HEIs

Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo

University of Sofia

University of Ljubljana

University of Minho

WSB Schools of Banking

Ana Sofia Rodrigues

Anastas Gerjikov

Vanja Perovsek

Isabel Santos

Anna Trzuskawska

 

1.30-2.00 p.m.

Lunch Hotel Mercure Restaurant

2.00-4.30 p.m.

Presentations on IQA systems and good practices given by HEIs

University of Coimbra

University of Madeira

University of Social Sciences Warsaw/Lodz/Cracow/London

University of Nova Gorica

University of Beira Interior

Madelana Alarcão

Custodia Drumond

Justyna Kopańska

Veronika Piccinini

Isabel Cunha

 

10.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.

A discussion workshop to compare quality assurance agencies methodologies for the assessment of IQA according to an agreed reference framework and to identify good and transferable practice: a presentation of each Agency’s methodology followed by a discussion

 

Facilitator WG3 leader: SQAA Jernej Sirok Presentations: PKA, NEAA, SQAA, A3ES

 

1.00 – 2.00 p.m

Lunch Żurawina Restaurant

2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.

The workshop for the Agencies cont.: summary of the discussion on the Agencies’ approaches to the assessment of IQA and the identification of good and innovative practice which may be usefully transferred to other countries within and outside of the Partnership

 

Facilitator WG 3 leader: SQAA Jernej Sirok

 

3.30 – 4.00 p.m.

ESG and IQA from teaching staff perspective

Maria João Rosa

10.00-12.00 a.m.

Wrap-up discussion on the interpretation of the ESG and good practice within the Partnership; summary conclusions from each workshop by partners. Final discussion on the structure of Guide to IQA.

 

Facilitator: PKA representative

 

12.00 – 1.00 p.m

Lunch Żurawina Restaurant

Presentations

EIQAS ENHANCING INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEMS ERASMUS PLUS PROJECT 2014-2016

Izabela Kwiatkowska-Sujka

Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG for the EHEA)

Tove Blytt Holmen

Key Internal Quality Assurance Issues
Students’ Perspective

Blazhe Todorovski

Cross-country survey results on IQA and ESG

Ivan Leban

Country Report: Portugal

Findings from the questionnaire survey on Part I of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance and Internal Quality Assurance Systems

Madalena Fonseca

Poland. Conclusions

Isabela kwiatkowska – Sujka, Mieczysław W. Socha

COUNTRY REPORT: SLOVENIA Findings from the questionnaire survey on Part I of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance and Internal Quality Assurance Systems

Klemen Šubic

EIQAS
Training Event 1
Warsaw, Poland

Todor Shopov

Internal Quality Assurance System commitment to quality

Internal Quality Assurance at Sofia University

prof. Anastas Gerdjikov

Quality Assurance and Development System at the University of Ljubljana

Vanja Perovšek

A Comprehensive Internal Quality Assurance System At University Of Minho

Isabel M. Santos, Graciete Dias

QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM WSB w Toruniu (Toruń School of Banking)

Dr Anna Trzuskawska-Grzesińska

The Management System of the University of Coimbra

INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM Madeira UniversiTy (UMa), Portugal

Custódia Drumond

IQA Systems and Good Practices in University
of Social Sciences in Lodz

Justyna Kopańska, Justyna Lotka

Presentation of Internal Quality Assurance System: University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Veronika Piccinini

Building Quality Assurance at UBI

Isabel Cunha

REFERENCE FRAMEWORK FOR COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AGENCIES‘ IQA ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES

mag. Jernej Širok

SQAA PRESENTATION OF IQA ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

mag. Jernej Širok

Contribution to
Reference framework for comparative analysis
of Agencies' IQA assessment methodologies (EIQAS Project WG3)

Madalena Fonseca

PKA PRESENTATION OF IQA ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

ESG and IQA
from Portuguese Academics’ Perspective

Maria João Rosa

Reference framework for comparative analysis
of Agencies' IQA assessment methodologies