Internationalization in Quality
Assurance
Private Higher Education in the Changing
EHEA Landscape
Christina Rozsnyai
Hungarian Accreditation Committee
CEENQA
Kodolányi János College
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International QA – the QA of
international education
• Many projects for over a decade, e.g.
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TNE Survey 2003
ECA est. 2003 (mutual recognition of agencies’ decisions)
its TEAM II completed 2010; JOQAR 2013 …
Its Qrossroads website incl. list of joint programs
• And numerous EU and Council of Europe and
OECD and UNESCO surveys, projects and reports,
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– UNESCO/OECD Guidelines for Quality Provision in
Cross-border HE, 2005
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The QA „Bible”
• ESG (2005), new inter-institutional and
international dimension in 2015 with
– esp. 1.4 for HEIs to have regulations for
„…recognition… particularly when students are
mobile”
• And: Ministers in Yerevan in May approved
the „European Approach for Quality
Assurance of Joint Programmes” - to be
applied by all Bologna signatories
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European Approach for QA of
Joint Programmes
• To promote mobility and facilitate „a genuine
European learning experience” via joint degrees
• Standards and procedures based on ESG Parts 1 & 2
– No additional QA but cooperation and recognition of joint
QA by agency listed in EQAR
– „single evaluation or accreditation of joint programme”
– „The result is to be accepted in all EHEA countries”
– Cooperation with non-EHEA countries: inquire with
national authorities on whether they accept the joint process
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QACHE Toolkit for QA agencies
• Most recent project outcome (dissemination
conference last week in Paris): „cooperation
in Cross-border HE”
• Coordianted by ENQA, incl. 4 European
agencies + APQN, ANQAHE, TEQSA
• Purpose: a reference tool for agencies on
how to cooperate in evaluating cross-border
HE (broader than joint programs)
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The Hungarian example for QA of
joint programs /CBHE in practice
• HU has several dozen registered
international joint programs
• The procedure has changed over the years:
• HAC has focused only on Hungarian part of
program, current procedure focuses on total
program and all academic staff involved in
all countries participating in the program
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But! (Hungarian example cont.)
• HAC evaluates programs on request of HEI
as submitted to the Educational Authority:
– Despite „European Approach…” we will have
to evaluate the application according to our
guidelines
– Even though only a single evaluation should be
conducted by one EQAR listed agency chosen
by the program coordinators
– Plus: HAC is member of ENQA but not EQAR
(both require complicance with ESG)
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CEENQA
• The QACHE Toolkit emphasizes the
collaboration of QA agencies in networks in
order to facilitate QA of cross-border
education
• HAC is founding member of CEENQA
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• CEEN founded in October of 2001 in Krakow (oldest QA-agencies
network in Europe)
• registered as CEENQA e.V. in Düsseldorf since 2011, Germany
• non-governmental and non-profit organization
• Main goal: “the cooperation between the member organizations in the
field of quality assurance in higher education and contributing towards
the development of the European Higher Education Area”
• Membership to CEENQA: open to organizations recognized by the
educational authorities of their countries as national or regional QAAs
in higher education
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27 members organizations
in 19 countries
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Albania (APAAL)
Austria (AQ)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
(HEA, HEAA)
Bulgaria (NEAA)
Croatia (ASHE)
Czech Republic (ACCR)
Estonia (EKKA)
Germany (ACQUIN, ASIIN,
FIBAA, AHPGS, EVALAG)
Hungary (HAC)
Kosovo (KAA)
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Kazakhstan (IQAA)
Lithuania (SKVC)
North Cyprus (YÖDAK)
Poland (UKA, PKA)
Romania (ARACIS)
Russia (NAA, NCPA, AKKORK)
Slovakia (AC)
Slovenia (SQAA)
Turkey (TEPDAD)
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Background literature
• European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint
Programmes, October 2014, approved by EHQA ministers
in May 2015
• ESG http://www.enqa.eu/index.php/home/esg/
• Cooperation in Cross-border HE. A Toolkit for QA
Assurance Agencies, ENQA 2015
• UNESCO, Guidelines for Quality Provision in Crossborder HE, 2005
• ECA and Qrossroads http://ecahe.eu/home/qrossroads/
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Thank you for your attention!
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