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Tempus - Engaging with Higher Education: Projects for Quality and Progress

This document provides information on four Tempus projects focused on various aspects of higher education, including curriculum development, quality evaluation, open learning models, and support for inclusive special education. These projects aim to improve the quality, accessibility, and inclusiveness of higher education in MEDA countries. The projects involve partnerships between universities in MEDA countries and Europe, and focus on areas such as micro-finance, engineering education, online learning, and special needs education.

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Tempus - Engaging with Higher Education: Projects for Quality and Progress

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  1. Tempus DayMarch 4, 2007 Half a Decade of Engagement with Tempus: Benefits and Challenges Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh OIRP Director, UJ

  2. UJ Tempus ProgramsJoint European Projects (JEP) • Title: Micro-Finance at the University. • Type: MEDA 2002 Curriculum Development. • Objective: To include Micro- Finance (mostly to women) in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula of Business Schools and Faculties of Economics and Social Sciences. • Duration: 3 years. • Budget: 491,499.75 Euro • Partners: 16Universities: 11 from MEDA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia) and 5 from Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain, U.K.) • Outcomes: - Pilot academic course in “Micro-Finance”, • - Website on Micro-finance for MEDA countries, • - Publications (Journals, books, case studies, etc). • Grant Holder: School of Business - University of Turin - Italy.

  3. UJ Tempus ProgramsJoint European Projects (JEP) • Title: Quality Evaluation in MEDA Higher Education: Engineering • Type: MEDA 2002 University Management. • Objective: Creating or reinforcing national systems and/or regional quality evaluation networks in higher education, based on pilot evaluation of engineering education. • Duration: 2 years. • Budget: 297,000.00 Euro • Partners: 22Universities: 14 from MEDA countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia) and 8 from Europe (France, Germany, Denmark) • Stage achieved: Evaluation Report. • Grant Holder: CENTRE INTERNATIONAL D'ETUDES PEDAGOGIQUES (The International Center of Pedagogical Studies) - CIEP – Sevres, France

  4. UJ Tempus ProgramsJoint European Projects (JEP) • Title: Open Learning Models and Technologies. • Type: MEDA 2003 Curriculum Development. • Objective: - Developing an online masters program, • - Reducing the costs associated with higher education. - - improving the quality of available open sources learning platforms, • - Enhancing teacher-learner interaction methods. • Duration: 3 years. • Budget: 490,000.00 Euro • Partners: 7 Universities: 2 from Jordan and 5 from Europe (Spain, Greece, Netherlands, France, Bulgaria) • Grant Holder: UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE - Alicante

  5. UJ Tempus ProgramsJoint European Projects (JEP) • Title: IB for Support of Inclusive Special Education. • Type: MEDA 2005 Training Courses for Institution Building. • Objective: To improve education and integration of children with special needs through creating an ISE Support Centre at the University of Jordan as an open access to Inclusive Special Education ISE services … • Duration: 3 years. • Budget: 466,411.80 Euro • Partners: 5 Universities: 2 from Jordan and 3 from Europe (Sweden, Germany) + 3 Organizations from the field of Special Education (2 from Jordan, 1 from Sweden) • Grant Holder: LUND UNIVERSITY – Lund, Sweden.

  6. Structural and Complementary Measures (SCM) • Title: T3: Training Trainers for Tempus and other Programs. • Type: MEDA SCM 2004 Training Project. • Objective: Specific training of the university academic and administrative staff on effective project management. • Budget: 55,990.00 Euro • Partners: 4 : UJ and 3 from Greece, Belgium, Italy) • Activities: A two-week training course was designed to respond to the project’s objective . • Grant Holder: UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE – Milano, Italy • Outcomes: -A group of academic and administrative staff (100) trained on projects’ management, • - A Guide for projects’ applicants, in English and Arabic; • - Material disseminated through web page; • - Evaluation Report.

  7. Structural and Complementary Measures (SCM) • Title: Higher Education for Good Governance: Inventory of Academic Resources • Subject Area: T856 - Public Administration Reform. • Objective: 1) Realization of an inventory of academic resources on governance in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Lebanon…. • Budget: 89,612.00 Euro • Partners: 8 Universities: 6 from MEDA countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria) and 2 from Europe (Spain, Netherlands) • Grant Holder: UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA – Granada.

  8. Structural and Complementary Measures (SCM) • Title: Jordan Training Course for International Relations • Subject Area: T820 - Education and Teacher Training. • Objective: Improving the skills of the administrative and academic staff at UJ in the management of national and international projects. • Budget: 90,300.00 Euro • Partners: 3 Universities: the University of Jordan and 2 from Europe (Italy, Cyprus) • Activities: Organizing training courses in three sessions: 2 were held at UJ and 1 was held in Italy. • Outcomes: - 15 staff members trained on the management of projects, • Grant Holder:UNIONE UNIVERSITA DEL MEDITERRANEO- UNIMED- Rome, Italy.

  9. Structural and Complementary Measures (SCM) • Title: Stimulating Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Jordan Universities • Type: T932 - Internal Quality Assessment Systems • Objective: To disseminate good practices in the areas of methodologies and instruments for the accreditation and quality assurance in Higher Education, benefiting from the European experience. • Budget: 112,350.00 Euro • Partners: 4 Universities: 2 from Jordan and 2 from Europe (Great Britain, Spain) • Grant Holder: La FUNDACION GENERAL DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE - Alicante, Spain

  10. Erasmus Mundus External Window • Objective: Student Mobility from both sides of the Mediterranean • Number of Mobilities: 124: BA Exchange; MA; Ph.D.; Postdoc. Jordan 38, Syria 27, Lebanon 28, Europe 31. • Partners: Arab: 9; European 11– Lund Applicant; UJ Coordinator • Budget: Recipients fully covered • Duration: Annual

  11. Conclusions • Financial Resources: barely sufficient • Institutional commitment is essential: support; change of practices and regulations • Jordanian Situation Conducive • Coordinator able to work with the institution • Be content with little • Not too many partners, not too few • Follow up is essential: should not end with the end period

  12. Benefits • Specific benefits from the programs themselves: internal review; external review • Intellectual capital • Timeliness: our pursuit of quality; coincides with HE strategy • Closer relations with, first-hand knowledge of Europe: our closest neighbor • Networking, consortia, and many side benefits • Internationalization: CV; benchmarking • Expertise for those involved

  13. Challenges • Competition for “little”; Arab contribution • Some incompatibility • A lot of effort; staff; time commitment • Involvement of the whole institution: willingness and will to do what it takes • European Commission: Strict, almost inflexible

  14. Tip • Tempus partnership is like MARRIAGE: Desirable, BUT … -- Choose partner carefully: not all are alike; compatibility -- Contract: No change of heart later -- Active partnership -- Compromise : some clash -- Chipping in

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