Quality assurance and internationalization
14 Nov 2008
Quality assurance is steadily growing in importance in the field of internationalization. There is currently a widespread belief that internationalization should not be regarded as a goal in itself, but rather as a means to improve the quality of education.
Many national and institutional policy documents set down quality as one of the major goals of internationalization. At the same time, there is a definite lack of systematic monitoring and evaluation of the impact of internationalization on quality, so that there is only limited proof available of any direct connection between internationalization and the quality of education.
Quality assurance and internationalization are actually two very different things. One is concerned with the quality assurance of internationalization, while the other focuses on the internationalization of quality assurance and elements of international programmes. In the latter case, centre stage is occupied by quality assurance itself and it is looked at within the international context.
Workshop quality assurance of student exchanges, EAIE 2008
Please find below the handouts for the workshop which was presented by Nuffic in cooperation with Science Po. (France) and La Trobe University (Australia)at the EAIE conference on September 11, 2008 in Antwerp.
Presentation Adinda van Gaalen (3.2 MB)
Presentation Dawn Koban (2.0 MB)
Presentation Gabriela Rehorova (22.7 MB)
For any questions you can contact the relevant speaker or the workshop organizer and chair, Adinda van Gaalen.
Partnership GIQAC
The worldbank and UNESCO have established a partnership this autumn for the Global Initiative for Quality Assurance Capacity (GIQAC). GIQAC will help to set up quality assurance systems in higher education institutes in developing and transitional countries. More information about GIQAC can be found on the website of UNESCO.