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Background and purposes of external reviews of QA agencies:
ENQA membership, national purposes
Tibor SzantoHungarian Accreditation Committee
ENQA Workshop - Paris, 10-11 July 2008
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Overview
I. Historical backgroundII. Purposes of reviews
III. Questions
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Who will guard the guardians?
Plato, Republic – on the ideal state guards will guard themselves it would be absurd that a guardian should need a guard (403e)
Juvenal, Satire VI – on men and womenguards cannot be trusted
I.
enforcing moral behaviour ~
morality of the enforcers
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Relevance of the question for external QA:
• trust in agency activities• ensuring the quality of QA agencies
I.
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Some steps in external QA
• CHEA recognition of agencies, 1998
• INQAAHE conference, Chile 1999quality label Guidelines for Good Practice 2003 etc
• ENQA workshop, Sitges 2003
• ESG, Bergen 2005
• Agency evaluations
I.
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Evaluations of Agencies
UGC (HK): ‘99HAC (H): ‘99-00AR (D): ‘01
EUA (EU): 01-02
…and many more
I.
MSA (US): ‘90
HEQC (UK): ‘93
NCA (US): ‘96-98AAU (NZ): ’97, ‘01
EVC (DK): ‘98OCGS (Can): ‘99
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Reasons and goals of evaluation
Evaluating past activities
Planning future activities
System level considerations
Second review (follow-up of previous eval.)
Meeting external expectations
II.
Cycle ended
Defined as QA element of agency: ESG
new!
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ESG reference(second edition, 2007)
2.6.8 Accountability procedures(Standard for agencies)
Agencies should have in place procedures for their own accountability.
[G] ...
3. A mandatory cyclical external review of the agency’s activities at least once every five years.
II.
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Types of reviews -as to organisation
• National review („default”)independent, transparent, robust
N.B. „national” = organisation of review review team is international in most cases!
• ENQA co-ordinated review where a national review would not be appropriate
II.
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Related ENQA documents
• Guidelines for national reviews of ENQA member agencies
• Briefing pack for review panel members of ENQA co-ordinated reviews
both to be discussed during workshop
II.
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Types of agency reviews – as to general purpose
• Agency agenda
• National (system) agenda
• ENQA membership
• EQAR listing
Purpose shift: internal external?
III.
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Questions
• HEI evaluations:Accountability Improvement?
• Agency evaluations:Improvement Accountability?
• Standards: reference points norms?
• Can agencies be trusted?
III.
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The use of agency evaluations or how many guardian levels we need?
HEIs
III.
Agencies
Agency reviewers
Reviewing the agency reviewers???
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Who should guard the guardians?
?
III.
Thank you for your
attention!