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Accreditation and Assessment in Irish Higher Education: The Emerging Scenario UU experience. Professor Anne Moran 25-26 January 2007. External Accreditation : overview. Collaborative provision defined: a shared understanding? Reciprocal benefits, difficulties and demands
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Accreditation and Assessment in Irish Higher Education: The Emerging Scenario UU experience Professor Anne Moran 25-26 January 2007
External Accreditation : overview • Collaborative provision defined: a shared understanding? • Reciprocal benefits, difficulties and demands • Respective roles and responsibilities of partners • Faculty Head of Collaborative Courses • Range of partners: FE, PSNI and PRRT, Health Trusts, other HEIs • Bologna in HE: Europe and international experiences
External Accreditation: the process • Protocol for approving partner institutions • Course approval, monitoring and validation/re-validation • Quality and standards assurance processes: internal (ACR) and external (QAA Collaborative Audit) • Access and progression (to UU) • Integration of information systems • Bologna/Transcript/Diploma Supplement • Change Academy Initiative
External Accreditation: issues arising • Significance for widening participation and fair access • Mixed messages from government • Competition between HE and FE • Status and ownership of students and funding model • Cost effectiveness and value for money imperatives • Burden of external reviews • Publicity and joint marketing
Collaborative Partnership Arrangements • Access Diploma (English and Maths issue) • Foundation Degrees • Certificate/Diploma in HE • Professional Body involvement (Social Work) • Consortia or networks (Counselling and Social Work) • APEL/APL/APCL: articulation arrangements
Specific Collaborative Provision • Joint degrees 50% share of modules • Foundation degrees: 2+2 or 2+1: competition • 2+1 plus bridging during Semester 3 (DEL review) • Outreach provision • International: Kazakhstan including APCL, MPA and year 3 by e learning, CCPU and Level 3 • IELTs (6) and not less than 5.5 in each of 4 categories ( listening, reading, writing, speaking )