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Enhancing Education Recognition: International Quality Assurance Seminar

Explore the evolution of education recognition systems and quality assurance in the global context, focusing on Bologna Process outcomes and key priorities. Understand the interplay between accreditation, quality assurance, and diploma recognition on national and international levels. Discover strategies for aligning learning outcomes, competences, and qualifications frameworks to improve international recognition. Engage with prominent organizations and networks involved in quality assurance and recognition efforts. Enhance your understanding of European mobility, employability, and labor market trends.

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Enhancing Education Recognition: International Quality Assurance Seminar

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  1. Bologna Seminar Improving the recognition system International recognition and quality assurance Jindra Divis Director, Netherlands NARIC/ENIC, Nuffic Riga, 3 December 2004

  2. General background: Global trends & developments in HE • Diversification of programs (degree, non-degree) • Individualisation of qualifications (and learning paths) • Globalisation of education: cross borders provision • Virtualisation of education • Lifelong Learning: from education to any form of learning

  3. Reactions • Many responses on national level – from strong support to permanent struggle • Culmination on the international level in the Bologna process • National and international responses coordinated • Also in the fields of recognition and quality assurance

  4. Berlin Communiqué • Three priorities: • Quality assurance • Recognition • Two-cycle system • How do the first two interlink

  5. Where do quality assurance and recognition meet? • Quality assurance/accreditation • From the perspective of recognition ‘one concept’ • In the hands of ‘national’ competent authorities • National level - objectives: • Accountability • Public protection • Quality improvement

  6. Where do quality assurance and recognition meet? • International level – objective • recognition of diplomas and qualifications • Recognition: • Quality ( and status) of institutions and programs the very first issue • Plus other issues (criteria)

  7. Too high expectations? • Co-operation in quality assurance and accreditation will NOT result in automatic recognition of diplomas and degrees • Other questions to tackle in recognition (see criteria Lisbon Recognition Convention) • Slow progress in quality assurance/accreditation co-operation • Looking for common objectives and criteria • Why not ‘acceptance’ and looking for ‘substantial differences’? • Two-cycle system promotes further diversification

  8. Co-operation between quality assurance/accreditation and recognition • On the agenda: • Specific information about quality to foreign target groups • Non-regular field: • Non-degree programs • Joint-degrees • Virtual education • Across borders provision • Lifelong learning

  9. Co-operation between quality assurance/accreditation and recognition • Moving from process to output: learning outcomes and competences • In need of ‘explaining’ frameworks • Qualifications frameworks • National and international

  10. What do we need? • A system of Qualifications Frameworks and a European Framework • Containing different levels of qualifications • Expressed in terms of learning outcomes/competences regardless of any specific or formal learning paths • Demonstrating how these competences could be shown, without referring to the educational process or learning paths • Supported by quality assurance provisions • Thus facilitating international recognition.

  11. Who is involved in quality assurance and recognition? • Who is not? • NARIC/ENIC networks • ENQA • EUA, ESIB, EURASHE • Council of Europe • UNESCO/CEPES

  12. Who is involved in quality assurance and recognition? • UNESCO • Global Forum • OECD • With UNESCO: Guidelines for quality provision in cross-border HE

  13. Who is involved in quality assurance and recognition? • Joint Quality Initiative • INQAAHE • Others

  14. Conclusion • Quality assurance /accreditation two sides of the same coin • Recognized as such • Facilitating European mobility, employability and labour market

  15. Questions?

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